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No fundraisers are scheduled in the near future, but contributions are gladly accepted at any time. Donate now.
Point Reyes National Seashore Association is partnering with the National Park Service at Point Reyes, the West Marin Chamber of Commerce, West Marin Visitors Bureau, and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary to bring you the second of our Special Events Weeks in the spring of 2010. We invite you to come visit Point Reyes National Seashore this spring during National Park Week and to see and experience the diverse wildflowers and birdlife! Spring Special Events has a special seasonal focus on our marine wildlife and other ocean topics. Activities include field trips, slideshows, films, talks, volunteer field events, and much more! The special events hosted by local businesses include special dinners paired with discussions and films by local experts.
Click here to learn more about these activites.
 Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA) is excited to co-sponsor the very first Point Reyes Birding and Nature Festival! The Point Reyes region is endowed with a unique geography and extensive wildlands and ranches. Its pristine coastline, beaches, dunes, mudflats, bays, estuaries, freshwater wetlands, forests, tidal marsh, grasslands, coastal bluffs and chaparral together support one of the highest levels of bird diversity in the country. As home base for some of the nation's top birders and naturalists, it offers the ideal setting for a spring festival for bird and nature enthusiasts of all levels.
The event will feature a variety of birding outings, led by some of the most highly skilled and well-known birders and naturalists, including many of our Point Reyes Field Seminars instructors: Rich Stallcup, Jules Evens, David Wimpfheimer, Keith Hansen, Allen Fish and many more. Half and full day trips will cover the region's best birding hotspots, including Bodega Bay, Bolinas Lagoon, Tomales Bay, Abbott's Lagoon, the Giacomini Wetland, Chimney Rock, Cordell Bank (weather permitting) and many other locations. Other outings will feature marine mammals, wildflowers and butterflies. There will be birding-by-ear classes, two evening programs and informative indoor talks and workshops on a variety of topics such as digi-scoping, drawing nature, bird research and conservation issues. A silent auction, live bird show and vendor display will round out the festivities.
Check out the schedule of events and register online today!
Check out our Point Reyes Field Seminar birding classes offered year-around and featuring many of the same birders and naturalists leading festival classes.
Be prepared for your next outdoor adventure. Purchase your birding guides, sun hats, and backpacks at the PRNSA Bookstore, located in all three park visitor centers. We carry a collection of guides for the beginner or expert in your family, including Sibley's, Peterson's, and National Geographic. PRNSA also publishes their own Discovering series of books covering topics about Point Reyes, including Discovering Birds: Your Guide to Point Reyes Birding ($9.99).
Your purchases help us support park projects, like the Giacomini Wetlands Restoration, which restored 550-acres of bird and wildlife habitat at the southern end of Tomales Bay, and park docent programs that help protect threatened bird populations like the Western snowy plover. Members receive 15% off all merchandise. Help support Point Reyes, by becoming a Member today .
You can also order books and gifts at (415) 663.1200 x 309 or email us.
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.
Don Neubacher has been superintendent at Point Reyes National Seashore for the past 15 years. During his tenure, he was responsible for completing a number of important initiatives including the Giacomini Wetlands Restoration Plan/EIS, the Fire Management Plan, the Coastal Watershed Restoration Plan/EIS, and the implementation of the park's Land Protection Plan.
A 28-year veteran of the National Park Service, Neubacher has previously served as deputy general manager of the Presidio of San Francisco, chief of visitor services at Point Reyes, education program administrator at Point Reyes, seminar coordinator for the Coastal Park Association (now Point Reyes Field Seminars), natural resources lecturer for Humboldt State University, and park ranger at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska.
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Point Reyes Summer Camp is happy to partner with the following organizations to bring our campers local, organic and sustainable meat, dairy and produce products:
Official Sponsors - donated local, sustainable foods
Marin Sun Farms - Official Sponsor of Grass-fed Beef and Chicken
Straus Family Creamery - Official Sponsor of Organic Milk, Cream, Butter, Yogurt, and Ice Cream
Food Partnerships
Marin Organic - Partner of local, organic produce
Petaluma Bounty - Partner of local, organic produce
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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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