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Crissy Field Center teaching kitchen
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Park cooking: Youth find connections at Crissy Field Center Teaching Kitchen

How the Crissy Field Center Teaching Kitchen is helping young people follow their curiosities—and their senses—to more deeply engage with the world around them.
Jack Carter Fisher at Lands End
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Veteran's journey: How Jack found recovery through science in the GGNRA

Veteran Jack Carter Fisher has found connection and healing in GGNRA parks, thanks to the W.A.R.I.O.R. Program through the San Francisco VA Health Care System, the National Park Service, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
Dennis Mabasa.
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Q&A: Dennis Mabasa on community and outdoor connections

Dennis Mabasa is the dynamic new Vice President of Community and Youth Programs for the Parks Conservancy. We chatted with Dennis about their connection to the outdoors and the importance of community.
Portrait of birder Daniela Sánchez with binoculars on a birding trip.
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How to find birds 'slowly' in national parks

Many people flock to birding because they love birds' beautiful plumage, their intricate songs, or their entertaining antics. For Daniela Sánchez, it was serendipity.
A bicyclist rides through water along the Bay Trail near Bothin Marsh.
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Here's what rising tides tell us about climate resilience

As storms raged over the winter, flooding paths and ripping apart beach walkways, the message was clear: Watch out!
A gray fox sits atop a log in the woods of mount tamalpais scratching its ear with its foot.
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Animals on camera: Why this innovative project has people tracking wildlife

On an early morning, a fresh cohort of volunteers for One Tam’s Marin Wildlife Watch community science program sat around a table in a darkened room, ready to see some animals.
A park ranger leads a program at Alcatraz Island
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Meet the Alcatraz park ranger sparking new conversations on the island

Ranger Oliver Goodman was raised in a family where "nobody hiked, nobody camped," but attending protests and participating in community events were a part of everyday family life. Alcatraz immediately struck him.
Parks Conservancy board member Shane Douglas
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Q&A with Shane Douglas, champion for people and parks on NPS advisory board

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.
Lidia D'Amico opens a window to the ocean on Alcatraz.
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Ask a park scientist: Lidia D'Amico, the bird biologist of Alcatraz

National Park Service biologist Lidia D’Amico works, in short, for the birds.
Collecting seeds at Mori Point.
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The great ‘treasure hunt’: Scouting seeds in the GGNRA

For Martine Glaros, it’s “like hiking and going on a treasure hunt at the same time.” Desmond Murray called it “needle in a haystack stuff.” Imagine finding a bloom in the park and going back weeks later when it’s no longer flowering, grasses and shrubs growing up around it, and...