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Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Trace exhibit

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Press Releases

2009 Sumer Service Kick Off with Youth Service Day on June 25 at Golden Gate Nation Parks

Join us to officially kick off the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Summer Service Initiative and Outdoor Youth Mentoring Program, following the conclusion of the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, on June 25 by volunteering in the Golden Gate National Parks.

HONORING OUR COMMUNITY HEROES: Crissy Field Center Marks Its Ninth Year of Celebrating Local Environmental Heroes

Crissy Field Center will honor four Bay Area individuals and collaborative groups with its annual Community Heroes Award on Saturday, May 2.

"TURNING THE TIDE" FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: Institute at the Golden Gate Brings Together Diverse Cross Sector Leaders to Address Key Environmental Issues

An extraordinary gathering of environmentalists, Nobel Laureates, CEOs, philanthropists, venture capitalists, scientists, social entrepreneurs, youth activists and other leaders in their fields will come together at the gateway to the Pacific Rim April 2-3, 2009.

2009 Day of Service: Help Grow Your National Park

Volunteer in the Golden Gate National Parks at your doorstep. It’s fun, it’s healthy, and it makes a difference—the perfect way to pitch in on a momentous day and an opportunity for people to give back to the park sites we all love and cherish.

Lands End Restoration Moves Full Steam Ahead

Lands End— historic place of steam trains, recreation, and scenic beauty—will unveil its newly rehabilitated Merrie Way overlook, trailhead, and parking area to the public on Saturday, October 18, 2008.

Press Coverage

Tree canopy showing gaps that let light in.

Fighting Chance for Marin's Forests

KneeDeep Times

The Marin Regional Forest Health Strategy is the latest in a series of studies going back to One Tam’s Peak Health inventory of 2016, and the first to look beyond the greater Mount Tamalpais area to cover the entirety of Marin, including private lands. KneeDeep Times, "the Bay Area's climate resilience magazine," investigates.

Jolene Babyak stands on the parade grounds on Alcatraz Island in front of reporters.

"The Rock" is officially golden

NBC Bay Area

October 26, 2023 marked 50 years of tourists visiting Alcatraz Island, the notorious former maximum security federal prison-turned-national park. NBC Bay Area got an insider's vantage point from Jolene Babyak, a Bay Area author who was raised on the island while her father worked at the prison.

The Alcatraz Historic Gardens with the Power Plant seen in the background.

50th anniversary of Alcatraz island as national park

KTVU

The former federal prison at Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay marks 50 years as part of the National Park System on Thursday, October 26, 2023.

John Cantwell talks to reporters on Alcatraz Island.

Alcatraz Island marks 50 years of being open to the public

New York Times

To mark 50 years of Alcatraz Island being opened to the public, the National Park Service with the Parks Conservancy and Alcatraz City Cruises hosted a celebration on the island.

View of wind turbines and solar panels from atop an Alcatraz cruises boat.

Prison, Military Base, Bird Sanctuary: Alcatraz Still Fascinates Tourists 50 Years On

The San Francisco Standard

Alcatraz has so many layers of history: military base, federal prison, site of Native resistance, bird sanctuary. The 22-acre island in the San Francisco Bay continues to generate speculation and ink, creativity and reflection.