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Amy Meyer - the 'Mother of the GGNRA'

Amy Meyer at National Trails Day, 2014

The “Mother of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area,” Amy Meyer is a Bay Area conservationist who helped forge local and national support to preserve the land at the Golden Gate as a national park in the 1970s. An artist and former teacher, she is a graduate of Oberlin College and California College of Arts & Crafts

Amy Meyer bio