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Saturday, Dec 19
Board backs nature and golf at Sharp Park
Environmentalists hope to revert the golf course to natural parkland and perhaps have it added to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. ... and more »
Sunday, Dec 13
Access to sweeping ocean views
Contact: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Marin Headlands Visitor Center, (415) 331-1540; nps.gov/goga/marin-headlands.htm. How to get there: From San ...
Thursday, Dec 10
34th Avenue and El Camino Del Mar, SF
of the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, it's also where you pick up the 6-mile Coastal Trail. ...
Sunday, Nov 22
Indians return to Alcatraz 40 years later
This is a significant day for the island," said Howard Levitt, chief of education for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. ... and more »
Tuesday, Nov 10
Find your stimulus money
a green tent to signifies upgrades at Fort Mason, which is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area; a blue car represents road work on Geary ... and more »
Wednesday, May 27
25 Bay Area parks may close from budget crisis
USA The parklands of the East Bay Regional Park District and Golden Gate National Recreation Area would not be affected. Drastic cuts are necessary, the governor said, because of the slipping economy, declining revenues and a deficit that deepened after ...
Monday, May 25
Presidio branches out with eucalyptus swap
USA part of the history of the Presidio and part of the history of park-making in San Francisco," said Ehrlich, the head of forestry for the Presidio Trust, which manages the interior 80 percent of the park for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. ...
Saturday, May 16
The man behind the park
He was the superintendent - the CEO, really - of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a national park that is twice the size of San Francisco. His park included both sides of the Golden Gate, the beautiful cliffs and rolling hillsides of the Marin ...
Sunday, Apr 26
Baby Newsom preview: It's a girl - and a Dem
USA Among the programs he refuses to slash are Healthy San Francisco and environmental endeavors. By the numbers 16.1 million Amount, in dollars, coming to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from a federal stimulus program. 26593 Tickets sold for the ...
Thursday, Apr 23
SF: Who'll remove Presidio tunnel graffiti?
USA What has Thurber upset - what has him contacting Chronicle Watch, the Presidio Trust, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others - is graffiti on the tunnel and nearby it. The top-of-the-tunnel graffiti - three blobs of ...
$97 million awarded to state's national parks
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes money for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument, Point Reyes National Seashore and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. US Sen. ...
Tuesday, Apr 21
Burns aids effort to make nature appeal to kids
USA The Golden Gate National Recreation Area engages 30000 school-age children and minorities in outdoor and environmental programs each year. Ernesto Pepito, the Youth Leadership Programs manager at the park's Crissy Field Center who will represent youth ...
Friday, Apr 17
Presidio preservationist Redmond Kernan dies
USA He's just a peach of a guy," said Brian O'Neill, superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes the Presidio. "He's been an integral part of the park for 20 years. There's hardly an issue we dealt with that he hasn't been a ...
Tuesday, Apr 14
Art car pioneer Tom Kennedy dies on Ocean Beach
USA Rescue crews rushed him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, according to officials at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Mr. Kennedy's art cars were vehicles that have been turned into rolling works of original art ...
Friday, Apr 10
Marin Headlands: close enough for comfort
USA Eat a picnic lunch there, then poke around for beach glass, unusual shells and other "treasures," but leave them behind because the beach is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a national park. Take off your shoes and socks and get your ...
Saturday, Mar 14
Marin City looks to better days
USA That history began during World War II, when the land between the highway to the east and what is now the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to the west was transformed from a dairy farm into temporary housing for 6000 workers. ...
Defense installations gave way to parks
USA Proposed developments on military land along the coastline were stopped and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was formed. In the end, all of the military beaches and coastal fortresses were turned over to the National Park Service, ...
Friday, Mar 13
Outdoor Exploratorium takes science in stride
of the world around us," Tamez said The Outdoor Exploratorium project began around 2006, with funding from the National Science Foundation and a partnership among the Exploratorium, Fort Mason Center and Golden Gate National Recreation Area. ...
Friday, Mar 6
SF's Exploratorium opens outdoor exhibits
USA waters and land forms of the city's unique urban environment, are arising this week across the Marina, from Aquatic Park to Fort Mason Center and the fort's 51 park-like acres at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area headquarters. ...
Wednesday, Feb 4
Fun and mystery at seashore
USA - Contact: Fort Funston, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, (415) 561-4700; nps.gov/goga. Tom Stienstra's Outdoors Report can be heard Saturdays on KCBS ...
Sunday, Jan 25
SF: Sailboat trucked away from Ocean Beach
USA - Jan 25, 2009 Weideman said the cost of removing, storing and disposing the vessel will be about $4000 - money that the Golden Gate National Recreation Area will have to ...
Wednesday, Jan 21
Margot Patterson Doss had the city at her feet
USA - Fort Funston today is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. That was the first of many occasions where Doss arranged for one-Sunday access to ...
Wednesday, Jan 14
SF: Wrecked ship on Ocean Beach
USA - On Wednesday afternoon, Rich Weideman, spokesman for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, said the boat was involved in a Coast Guard rescue operation ...
Wednesday, Dec 17
Fresh pact to make GGNRA more accessible
USA - Dec 17, 2008 Under the memorandum signed by the Disability Rights Advocates law firm and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the government has four years to ...
Tuesday, Dec 2
New Fisher museum plans as objectionable as the old
USA - Dec 2, 2008 The trust, the federal agency that oversees the former military base that is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, also continues to propose ...
Monday, Dec 1
Volunteers are 'the very soul' of GGNRA
USA - Dec 1, 2008 11-30) 20:26 PST -- The 75500-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area has always broken new ground, starting with its establishment in the 1970s as one ...
