June 17th 10am-12pm, 27th 10am-2:30pm, 29th 9am-12pm
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
17th- no supervisor, 27th- Sydney and Rachel, 29th- Jason
17th- N/A, 27th- don't have, 29th- jlisenby@presidiotrust.gov
For my first three visits with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, I participated in a beach clean-up at Ocean Beach, habitat restoration at Tennessee Beach in the Marin Headlands, and a maintenance project in the Presidio. Before working with this conservancy, I already had a pretty good idea of the types of conservation activities I would be doing since they are very common. Going into this PACT project, I understood that it was important to keep our environment/ecosystems clean, but didn’t fully understand how my actions were directly helping the cause. After these three visits, I feel that I have a much better understanding about why we do the beach clean-ups and habitat restorations, and the larger goal that all these small actions are leading towards.
Through the few visits so far, I think that my interest and passion in helping make the world a cleaner place has been furthered, and become more real for me. Taking the maintenance project in the Presidio for example, our job was to help remove all the weeds and invasive plants from an area. The entire process was very rewarding because along with knowing that we are making a change in the world, there was also the immediate satisfaction of seeing the huge difference there was before and after we finished working. Although these three visits aren’t my first conservation activities, I felt that I cared a lot more because I chose and wanted to do this, and got a better understanding of the gravity of those events.
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