Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Cost Savings Mean the National Park Service Can Fund More Projects In the Parks

Favorable contracts on some of the major construction projects the National Park Service has funded with American Recovery and Reinvestment dollars means the agency will be able to afford more projects this year.

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 29th, 2011 11:03am

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Kentucky's Sen. Bunning Singlehandedly Idles Road Construction Projects Nationally, Including Many in National Parks

Jim Bunning, Kentucky's contrary U.S. senator, singlehandedly has shut down road construction projects across the nation, including many in national parks, because he doesn't want to help middle-class families weather the economic storm, U.S. Department of Transportation officials said Monday.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 1st, 2010 5:31pm

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There Will be No Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio

Gap founder Donald Fisher is dead, and so is his proposal to build an art museum at the Presidio. Fisher’s magnificent collection of contemporary art will instead go to San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art.

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By Bob Janiskee - October 25th, 2011 6:58pm

Does Ashy Storm Petrel Ruling Imply that Bush-Era “Ignore the Science” Policies are Being Perpetuated at DOI?

Brushing aside scientific evidence that the ashy storm petrel population is in profound decline, the Interior Department has ruled that this seabird doesn’t deserve federal protection. Having expected better from the new administration, disappointed environmentalists think it looks like same-old, same-old at Interior.

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By Bob Janiskee - October 22nd, 2011 11:18am

Marine Protected Areas Enhance Ocean Resources Management in California National Parks

New marine protected areas are in the offing for California’s North-Central Coast. These new MPA's will facilitate ocean resource management in the coastal waters of Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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By Bob Janiskee - August 23rd, 2009 4:18pm

National Park Mystery Spot 1 Revealed: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Were Here Too

Did you take a crack at yesterday’s mystery spot quiz? If not, you might want to go ahead and do that before you read this.

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By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 8:50am

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National Park Mystery Spot 1: Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth Used It

It’s a place somewhere in the National Park System. Can you identify it if we give you five clues?

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By Bob Janiskee - December 19th, 2009 10:25am

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Update: Presidio Main Post Won’t Be CAMP site

Frustrated by fierce opposition, the Fishers have abandoned plans to build a contemporary art museum at the Main Post of San Francisco's Presidio. Alternative sites at the Presidio and elsewhere will now be considered.

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By Bob Janiskee - July 5th, 2009 10:55am

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Creature Feature: To Save the Mission Blue Butterfly, You Have to Save the Lupine

Saving the endangered mission blue butterfly is a lupine-focused mission. The mission blues, which now survive only in a few places near San Francisco Bay, can’t reproduce in habitats that lack certain kinds of lupine.

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By Bob Janiskee - May 30th, 2009 7:04am

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Updated: Brian O'Neill, Golden Gate National Recreation Area Superintendent, Dies Following Heart Surgery

Brian O'Neill, who had guided Golden Gate National Recreation Area as its superintendent since 1986, has passed away following complications from heart surgery. He was 67.

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By Kurt Repanshek - May 14th, 2009 5:09pm

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