 Saturday October 2, 2010
7:30 AM–5 PM
Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco
$350 per person
($200.00 is tax-deductible)
Space is limited
Refreshments Provided
Support PRNSA by spending a day with three expert naturalists navigating the waters of the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries. Our voyage will sail under the Golden Gate, head north past the Point Reyes headlands, pass through the prolific waters of the Cordell Bank, and then sail south just inside the 100-fathom line of the continental shelf around the Southeast Farallon Island at the peak of the Great White Shark season. For pricing and reservations visit us online.
Download the flyer (221 KB PDF)
For more information/tickets contact us at (415) 663.1200 x 304, or by email
If you can't participate in one of the fundraisers above, you can still donate now.
 Saturday, September 25, 2010
10 AM–1 PM
Drakes Beach
Join the Point Reyes National Seashore and PRNSA for a day at Drakes Beach. Coastal Cleanup Day is a great way for families, students, service groups, and neighbors to join together, take care of our fragile marine environment, show community support for our shared natural resources, learn about the impacts of marine debris and how we can prevent them. This event is also the kick-off event for Coastweeks—three weeks of coastal and water-related events for the whole family. Please RSVP at the email provided below.
Download the flyer (335 KB PDF)
Please RSVP, at (415) 663.1200 x 304 or by email
Come join us this year to learn how the wetland continues to evolve as it transforms from pasture back to marshland. This year we have partnered with the Park to bring you a series of field events that will discuss how hydrology, wildlife, and vegetation have continued to change in the second year since the restoration.
We kicked off the year on Saturday, April 17, 2010, in time to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and National Park Week, with a talk by Rachel Kamman, the project hydrologist, on turning of the tides at Giacomini and how the inflow of tidal water and freshwater into the former ranch has changed since the levees were breached. All Giacomini Wetlands Field Seminars begin at 10 AM and meet at the corner of 4th and C streets in Point Reyes Station. See the attached flyers for more details.
This year you will also have an opportunity to become involved with the restoration process through one of the Park's volunteer workdays. You can come help us remove invasive, non-native plants that threaten the survival of plants we planted during construction or the historic native plants populations. Our first volunteer workday followed the April 17, 2010, seminar by Rachel Kamman on hydrologic changes.
In the fall, we will have opportunities to actually put plants in the ground—rather than just take them out. For more information, visit our Current Projects page or download the April 17 Field Seminar and Volunteer Work Day flyer (166 KB PDF) events and the 2010 Giacomini Seminars flyer (226 KB PDF).
Upcoming Giacomini Wetlands Field Seminars
All seminars start at 10 AM and meet at the corner of 4th and C streets in Point Reyes Station unless otherwise noted.
- Saturday, August 28th, 2010: "From Pasture to Marsh: The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of the Giacomini Wetlands." Lorraine Parsons, Seashore Vegetation/Wetland Ecologist, and Amelia Ryan, Seashore Wetland Ecologist, will address how vegetation is responding to the changes in hydrology with breaching of the levees.
- RESCHEDULED: Sunday, October 24th, 2010 (was originally scheduled for Saturday, October 23rd, 2010):"Changing Wildlife Populations in the Newly Restored Giacomini Wetlands: Build It and They Will Come." Jules Evens, noted local wildlife biologist, will discuss changes in use by bird and other wildlife species.
Upcoming Volunteer Work Days
Meet at the corner of 4th and C streets in Point Reyes Station. Wear work clothes and bring food, water, boots, gloves, and sun protection.
- No future Volunteer Work Days are scheduled at this time.
For additional information about the Field Seminars or Volunteer Work Days, contact Amelia Ryan at (415) 464.5227 or by email.
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Join thousands of people across America in previewing the 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea' on PBS. Invite your loved ones, friends and neighbors to learn more about our national parks and their importance for providing opportunities for recreation, solitude and reconnecting with nature. Our hope is that this film encourages more Americans to see the value in our national parks and how important it is to invest not only in their protection, but their ability to grow constituencies for conservation, to improve lives, and to inspire.
Be apart of Point Reyes legacy, donate or volunteer today!
Check your local listings (Re-broadcasting in February 2010)
Watch online
Film Synopsis
This is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. The narrative traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction. It is simultaneously a biography of compelling characters and a biography of the American landscape.
Over six years in the making, America's Best Idea: THE NATIONAL PARKS is a visual feast, featuring some of the most extensive, breathtaking images of the national parks system every captured on film. It contains the most contemporary footage of any Ken Burns film since "Lewis and Clark," shot principally by chief cinematographer Buddy Squires (who has photographed all of Burns's films), long-time Florentine cameraman Allen Moore, Lincoln Else (who also is a former ranger at Yosemite) and Burns himself.
As with all of Burns's films, there will be an extensive educational component, an interactive Web site that provides more information about the film, the parks and related issues, as well as a large-scale community engagement initiative. Four years ago, WETA and Florentine Films, with generous support from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, launched the Untold Stories project, designed to bring to light stories from the national parks focusing on the role of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in the creation and protection of individual parks and to engage new and traditionally underserved audiences in the educational richness of the national parks.
We currently have no book talks scheduled at this time.
For more info about book talks, contact:
PRNSA Bookstore
(415) 663.1200 x309
email
Check out one of the three visitor center bookstores for the best selection of books on Point Reyes and its resources. Members receive 15% off their purchases at all locations.
Point Reyes National Seashore Association would like to extend a warm welcome to the park’s new superintendent, Cicely Muldoon.
Cicely has served as a deputy degional director of the National Park Service’s Pacific West Region since 2005. The region encompasses more than 50 national parks in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and the Pacific Islands.
Cicely began her career with the National Park Service in 1985. She has worked at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Presidio of San Francisco, and Pinnacles National Monument in California; San Juan Island National Historical Park in Washington State; Sitka National Historical Park in Alaska; Buffalo National River in Arkansas; and the National Park Service headquarters office in Washington, DC. Muldoon served as superintendent of Pinnacles National Monument and San Juan Island National Historical Park prior to her posting in the Pacific West Regional Office. Muldoon is a native of Sausalito and is a graduate of the University of California, Davis.
In spring of 2009, Cicely was sent on temporary assignment to Point Reyes for three months as acting superintendent. I had the pleasure to work closely with Cicely during that time and found her to be an excellent administrator with a passion for resource protection, environmental education, reaching out to underserved communities and for engaging the community in the recreational, cultural and volunteer opportunities in the park. She is a superb communicator and listener. The Point Reyes National Seashore Association is very excited to work with Cicely and we congratulate National Park Service officials for making this outstanding appointment.
Read more about Cicely at:
http://www.nps.gov/pore/parknews/newsreleases_20100423_superintendent_muldoon.htm
Mark Bartolini
Executive Director
Point Reyes National Seashore Association
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar presented a 2009 Partners in Conservation Award to the Giacomini Wetlands Restoration partners for their work in the Tomales Bay and along the central California coast.
The award noted that the Giacomini Wetlands Restoration collaboration has restored as much as 12 percent of the outer coastal wetlands along the central California coast and more than 50 percent of the vegetated intertidal wetlands to Tomales Bay. Tomales Bay is bounded largely on the west by Point Reyes National Seashore administered by Interior's National Park Service.
Partners include the National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore Association, Tomales Bay Watershed Council and several engineering firms (see list at end).
The Giacomini award was one of 26 national awards to individuals and organizations presented at a ceremony at Interior headquarters in Washington, D.C. to honor "those who achieve natural resource goals in collaboration and partnership with others."
"The Partners in Conservation Awards demonstrate that our greatest conservation legacies often emerge when stakeholders, agencies, and citizens from a wide range of backgrounds come together to address shared challenges," the Secretary said. "Restoration of these wetlands is vital to the conservation of diverse groups of fish and wildlife and improving water quality."
The 26 Partners in Conservation Awards recognize conservation achievements resulting from the cooperation and participation of a total of 600 individuals and organizations including landowners; citizens' groups; private sector and nongovernmental organizations; and federal, state, local, and/or tribal governments.
Those sharing the Giacomini Wetlands Restoration Project award include:
National Park Service
Don Neubacher
Brannon Ketcham
Lorraine Parsons
John Dell'Osso
Ed Walls
Point Reyes National Seashore Association
Gary Knoblock
Andrew Lowry
Dennis Rodoni Sally Bolger
Kim Hilsmann
Tomales Bay Watershed Council
Neysa King
Carlos Porrata
Hanford Applied Restoration and Conservation
Doug Hanford
Mark Cederborg
Kamman Hydrology and Engineering, Inc.
Greg Kamman
Rachel Kamman
Winzler & Kelly Consulting Engineers
Deniz Lowe
Tony Williams
PRNSA is so thrilled to be a part of this legacy project and thanks all of the people and organizations that have made this possible. PRNSA would also like to thank California Coastal Conservancy, California State Water Board, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and all our dedicated members who made this project possible through their contributions. This is truely the largest project and partnership to date for the Point Reyes National Seashore and PRNSA, and its success will be a shared legacy for the National Park Service and the community to enjoy for years to come.
We hope you all get a chance to visit the newly restored wetlands soon. Whether you are birding, kayaking, canoeing, or taking a stroll, the beauty and majesty of this place will surely bring a smile to your face. Enjoy!
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