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Nature Journal Club, Park Academy, What's in a sky?
Nature Journal Club: What's in a Sky?
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Join the Nature Journal Club for a 1.5 hour workshop to help you learn some tips and tricks for drawing the sky! This class will be taught by guest instructor Laurie Wigham.

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Our trails need your TLC.
Trail crew back on the trail again, after the rains

The recent onslaught of rain has wreaked havoc on trail drainage throughout the Bay Area, and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy partners at the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) and One Tam are always open to more helping hands during these stormy months!

Polypodium californicum, or California polypody.
Ferns: Our Familiar Little Fronds

If you take a walk along the Coastal Bluffs in the Presidio and stop just south of the Langdon Court parking lot, across from the battered bunkers and under the pine trees, you’ll find a plant that often goes unnoticed.

San Mateo Park Stewardship intern Samuel Peña.
Introducing Samuel Peña: Our new San Mateo Park Stewardship Intern!

Hello!  My name is Samuel Peña and I am super thrilled to be joining the Park Stewardship San Mateo team.  

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Immigrant Yarn Project

Immigrant Yarn Project featured knitted and crocheted yarn contributions made by over 600 contributors from across the country representing generations of immigrants from every corner of the world — and including contributions from homeless communities, seniors, students, LGBTQ, Native Americans, and even a Former Secretary of State

January 2019 Nature Journal Club Workshop
John Muir Laws: How to Draw a Forest
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Join the Nature Journal Club for a 1.5 hour workshop to help you learn some tips and tricks for drawing forests! This will be a continuation of the series on drawing trees (attendance in past workshops is not required). 

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Visitors to the Warming Hut at Crissy Field are seen in a file photo.
Alcatraz, Warming Hut, other park facilities remain open amid lapse in federal appropriations

Despite a lapse in federal appropriations (also called “government shutdown”) that began on Saturday, December 22, many park sites and visitor facilities in the Golden Gate National Parks remain open.

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Future IDs at Alcatraz

Future IDs at Alcatraz was a yearlong exhibition on Alcatraz Island featuring ID-inspired artworks created by and with individuals with conviction histories as they conceive and develop a vision for a future self. Led by artist Gregory Sale, this project was presented by in partnership with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy as a part of the Art in the Parks program.

Kid jumping against blue sky
Get out! Use a park prescription in the New Year in our Golden Gate National Parks

Resolve to be outdoors more this year. Even doctors are actually handing out "park prescriptions."

New trail maintenance, construction, and stewardship interns for the 2018-19 season.
Winter warriors: Meet our new trail interns!

Please welcome our new trail maintenance, construction, and stewardship interns! They will be working hard to fight the cold and care for trails over the next 6-9 months.

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