The Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve in Northern California. It was created by UNESCO in 1988, and encompasses thirteen protected areas in the San Francisco Bay Area. It encompasses a diverse range of marine, coastal and upland habitats of the California chaparral and woodlands and Northern California coastal forests ecoregions, including mixed evergreen forests, Coast Redwood forests, Douglas-fir forests, Bishop pine forests, oak forests, woodlands and savannas, northern coastal scrub, chaparral, coastal dune, coastal strand, tidepools, kelp forests, coastal grasslands, and marshes.
The conservation units that make up the biosphere reserve include:
- Audubon Canyon Ranch
- Bodega Marine Reserve
- Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area
- Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
- Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
- Marin Municipal Water District
- Mount Tamalpais State Park
- Point Reyes National Seashore
- San Francisco Peninsula Watershed (San Francisco Public Utilities Commission)
- Tomales Bay State Park
- Samuel P. Taylor State Park
Famous quotes containing the words golden, gate and/or reserve:
“I turned my head and saw the wind,
Not far from where I stood,
Dragging the corn by her golden hair,
Into a dark and lonely wood.”
—William Henry Davies (1871–1940)
“You, mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keeps the gate of hell!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In a democracy—even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one—the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)