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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. • Click here to view the PDF
Parks After Dark activity book
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Click on the image below to view and print our free Parks After Dark activity book! Learn about nighttime creatures in the park and how scientists are working to protect them. Thank you for helping us protect animal habitats and promote a healthy ecosystem!
Alcatraz historic gardens
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Take a virtual tour of the Alcatraz Historic Gardens
Five people sit on a colorful, striped blanket at Presidio Tunnel Tops
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Check out this video to learn more about the Presidio Activator Council, the reasons behind the council’s formation, and how the Activators helped create a sense of welcoming and belonging at Presidio Tunnel Tops for opening and beyond.
Parks Conservancy board member Shane Douglas
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Shane Douglas is an advocate for America’s public lands and for getting people into the outdoors. We caught up with Shane to ask how all his park work overlaps.
Seal Rocks seen in the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco's Lands End.
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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!
Three smiling and laughing youths posing at Baker Beach, one is buried in the sand with their head revealed
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Over the summer of 2023, Urban Trailblazers (UTB) and Linking Individuals to their Natural Communities (LINC) participants were moving and grooving at the Crissy Field Center and throughout the parks. Program leaders took youth hiking at Portola Redwoods and kayaking at Bothin Marsh in Marin. They tie-dyed shirts and bags...
Kettle of Raptors Over San Francisco Skyline
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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,...
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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.
Gardens at Alcatraz
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For more than a century, gardens were an important part of everyday life for officers, families, and prisoners confined to Alcatraz by sentence or duty. Alcatraz’s current visitors experience an island that is alive with colorful plants gathered decades ago from around the world, and complemented by newly introduced plants.