Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve

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:

    “If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.”
    —Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

    “The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)

    “If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
    —Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)