Press Releases

Find the latest press releases from the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy below. We have more info for the media in our Press Room. For media inquiries, please contact the Parks Conservancy media team at media@parksconservancy.org.

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Two women carrying bug nets in a grassy field inspect specimen vials

The rare San Francisco leaf-cutter bee, which is endemic to the Bay Area, had not been seen since 1980.

August 6, 2024
SAN RAFAEL, CA—(August 6, 2024)—The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy working with the National Park Service, California State Parks, Marin Water, and Marin County Parks as the One Tam partnership, announces the finding of the rare San Francisco leaf-cutter bee ( Trachusa gummifera ) in Marin County. Scientists have documented...
The Mill Valley-Sausalito multi-use path runs through Bothin Marsh
May 22, 2024
The project presents a nature-based approach to responding to sea level rise and climate change at Bothin Marsh Open Space Preserve and the Mill Valley-Sausalito Pathway, part of the Bay Trail, one of Marin County Parks’ most visited park units and the most vulnerable to sea level rise.
Sunlight shines through canopy at Muir Woods
February 23, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO—(February 23, 2024)—The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, working with the National Park Service, California State Parks and Marin Water as the One Tam partnership, was recently awarded $4.26 million in grant funding from the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) to support forest conservation programs in Marin County. The One...
A gray fox sits atop a log in the woods of mount tamalpais scratching its ear with its foot.
January 10, 2024
SAN RAFAEL, CA. (January 10, 2024)—The National Park Service, California State Parks, Marin Water, Marin County Parks, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy working in partnership as One Tam announces a new partnership with Conservation International and Google Wildlife for Marin Wildlife Watch (formerly called Marin Wildlife Picture Index...
A foggy photo of the forests of Mt. Tam with the rising sunlight filtering in.
September 5, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO (September 5, 2023)—The National Park Service, California State Parks, Marin Water, Marin County Parks, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy working in partnership as One Tam, have released the Marin Regional Forest Health Strategy (Forest Health Strategy) , laying out a new model for understanding and caring...
Michele Gee stands in front of a green background in the parks.

Former Chief of Interpretation and Education for the National Park Service returns to the Parks Conservancy where she began her career in the parks

May 1, 2023
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy today announced the appointment of Michele Gee as its Deputy Chief Executive Officer.