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Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Trace exhibit
Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Trace exhibit

Alison Taggart-Barone/Parks Conservancy

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Press Releases

Crissy Field Center's "Green" Interim Modulars Showcase Sustainability for Students and Park Visitors

One of the nation’s greenest park-based buildings promises to be an outstanding model of sustainability for students and park visitors alike.

Warming Hut
It's Easy Being Green

Reward your family and friends—and the planet—this holiday season by creating an eco-conscious shopping list.

Redwood Creek flowing into the ocean
Creating Better Parklands

The Redwood Creek Restoration at Muir Beach is beginning an initial phase of work that will restore natural function to the creek and wetland system at this well known Marin County visitor destination.

Greg Moore speaks at a Presidio Gateways event, May 6, 2014.
Alcatraz Spokespersons: Biographies

Learn more about Alcatraz spokespersons.

Hawk watch
Flight of Dedication: Volunteers Devote 25 Years of Service

Golden Gate Raptor Observatory celebrates citizen science at California’s major raptor migration site.

Press Coverage

Side-by-side photos two peregrine falcons, male on left and female on right.
Watch live: Peregrine falcon webcam up and running on Alcatraz Island
San Jose Mercury News

Biologists from the National Park Service have turned on a live streaming public web camera featuring “Larry,” a 6-year-old peregrine falcon who built a nest several years ago on the famed 22-acre island in San Francisco Bay that was once was home to America’s toughest federal prison. The camera was set up with the help of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.

The Second Annual Pink Full Moon Stroll
KTVU

The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy hosted the second annual Parks4All: Pink Full Moon Stroll—a one-of-a-kind pink-out party under April's Pink Full Moon at Presidio Tunnel Tops.

The Alcatraz Historic Gardens with the Rock's famed water tower in the background.
The unlikely gardeners of Alcatraz
SF Gate

In partnership with the Insight Garden Program, and with the assistance Shelagh Fritz, senior program manager at the Parks Conservancy, NPS Ranger Oliver Goodman has begun a new gardening program with the incarcerated women at Central California Women’s Facility.

Mount Tamalpais
Marin agencies receive $4.26M to improve forest health
Marin Independent Journal

“The work at One Tam represents this really incredible cross-agency partnership,” said Jennifer Norris, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Board, which awarded the Parks Conservancy with our One Tam partners a $4.26 million grant for forest and woodland stewardship in Marin. “It has a really strategic approach and a way of working together to get the most bang for your buck.” The grant will help One Tam implement its “Marin Regional Forest Health Strategy.”

Muir Woods Historic Redwoods
Parks Conservancy awarded $4.26 million for forest health projects
Wildlife Conservation Board

Support from the Wildlife Conservation Board Forest Conservation Program will enable the Parks Conservancy to work with our One Tam partners to implement significant forest and woodland stewardship actions in key areas throughout Marin County.