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In partnership with the Student Conservation Association and Environment for the Americas, the Parks Conservancy Pathways Program offers a variety of 6-9 month internship opportunities working with diverse teams across the parks.

Fall Migration, 2022 season report

Here are some extras from the Winter 2023 issue of Gateways, the member newsletter of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. If you're a member, you got the entire colorful newsletter delivered straight to your mailbox. Not a member? Join today!

Letters of Support for Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy’s application to NOAA’s Office of Habitat Conservation for a NOAA Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience grant for the Redwood Creek Watershed National and State Parks Habitat Enhancement Project in Marin County, California.

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Learn about nighttime creatures in the park and how scientists are working to protect them.

Take a virtual tour of the Alcatraz Historic Gardens

Here are some extras from the Fall 2023 issue of Gateways, the member newsletter of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. If you're a member, you got the entire colorful newsletter delivered straight to your mailbox. Not a member? Join today!

After three decades of consistently and meticulously tallying the daily fall raptor migration at the Golden Gate, we have a lot of great data, and we have an amazing ability to see a kind of baseline raptor migration story for the 19 species that are seen here annually.

For example,

Resident families introduced roses to Alcatraz during the military era, between 1850 and 1934. Surprisingly, roses thrived under these conditions and soon filled Alcatraz’s first gardens.