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:
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Leave now
The shut gate and the decomposing wall:
The gentle serpent, green in the mulberry bush,
Riots with his tongue through the hush
Sentinel of the grave who counts us all!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Her face had the seamed reserve of the old in this country [Japan]. It was a neighborhood poignantly rich in old ladies.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)