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:
“What are we hoping to get out of it, what’s it all in aid of—is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?”
—John Osborne (1929–1994)
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:13.
“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.”
—René Daumal (1908–1944)