http://www.christinesculati.com/blog Ideas, news and resources for social impact, healthy communities and environmental stewardship Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.christinesculati.com/blog/2008/01/2008-is-the-big-year-for-ggnras-imperiled-wildlife-and-plants/ http://www.christinesculati.com/blog/2008/01/2008-is-the-big-year-for-ggnras-imperiled-wildlife-and-plants/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:41:55 +0000 christine http://christinesculati.com/blog/2008-is-the-big-year-for-ggnras-imperiled-wildlife-and-plants/

With the New Year, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area has officially launched a competition to save endangered species living in urban island habitats of San Francisco, the Peninsula, and Marin. The year-long event, called the “2008 GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year,” hopes to spur the awareness and actions needed to save the 33 endangered and threatened birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, fishes, and flowering plants found in GGNRA. The GGNRA contains more endangered species than Yosemite and any other National Park in continental North America.

GGNRA, a unit of the national park system, includes the world-renowned destinations of Alcatraz Island and Muir Woods and is the world’s largest urban national park with over 75,000 acres in San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo counties. GGNRA has a unique geographical position covering a broad range of habitats for plants and wildlife including marine habitats, salt marshes, redwood forests, chaparral and coastal scrub habitats, and grasslands, just to name a few.

Today, leaders of the San Francisco Naturalist Society and others will be hosting a kick-off party for the Big Year at the San Francisco Zoo.

Numerous educational and hand-on events to help the imperiled wildlife and native plants of GGNRA will take place throughout 2008. For example, if you want to learn how to see and save the Northern Spotted Owl, you can go to that animal’s profile page and find out about upcoming events for spotting it in its natural environment while helping to restore its foraging habitat.

Go to www.ggnrabigyear.org for more information.

]]> http://www.christinesculati.com/blog/2008/01/2008-is-the-big-year-for-ggnras-imperiled-wildlife-and-plants/feed/ 0 http://www.christinesculati.com/blog/2007/06/native-plants-for-the-new-california-academy-of-sciences-living-roof/ http://www.christinesculati.com/blog/2007/06/native-plants-for-the-new-california-academy-of-sciences-living-roof/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:56:17 +0000 christine http://christinesculati.com/blog/native-plants-for-the-new-california-academy-of-sciences-living-roof/ In my last post, “Green roofs on the rise,” I wrote about the new 2.5-acre undulating rooftop of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. By the time the museum reopens, the roof will be covered with native California plants, including beach strawberry, sea pink, self heal, and stone crop.

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