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
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“Nor envy’s snaky eye, finds harbour here,
Nor flatterers’ venomous insinuations,
Nor cunning humorists’ puddled opinions,
Nor courteous ruin of proffered usury,
Nor time prattled away, cradle of ignorance,
Nor causeless duty, nor comber of arrogance,
Nor trifling title of vanity dazzleth us,
Nor golden manacles stand for a paradise;”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)
“I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)