Hi all! Long time no chat! For this blog, I want to tell you all about my sleeepover on Alcatraz Island on the 4th of July!Why did I sleep over on a creepy, rusty, smelly island willingly? Well, during this day, I actually helped out with the...

What a bunch of cuties!I feel like a proud parent seeing all these chicks be raised!I want to highlight some of the few projects I have been working on during this busy high season, and the long-awaited outcome of the chicks coming! The two photos...

Hey everyone!I feel like I continue to experince so many new things at this park site, and it feels like it is never ending. For this blog, I want to share a weekend trip down to Pinnacles National Park with the Habitat Restoration crew! Every year,...

Theres a snake in my boot! Hi folks! Long time no see. Field season has kicked off SO FAST I can't believe how much has happened.I want to take this blog, and the next few, to retroactively take a look back into this season and highlights...

Say Cheese! You may be wondering, whats with all the camera puns? Well, in this blog, I want to highlight the work I have been doing the most out of this month. This would be checking on our park's wildlife cameras!Quarterly, our wildlife team checks up on...

CRLF egg mass It’s that time of the year again! We are ramping up our annual California red-legged frog (CRLF) monitoring! Each winter, CRLFs breed in several sites across GOGA and its all hands on deck for the Aquatics and Wildlife team.  The main way we monitor...

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Frogs, Frogs, Frogs! If you were to ask me how I would summarize my month of December here at GOGA, I would say that phrase above. December has been a sleepy month also, The holiday season has been filled with wet days, food, and sleepy time...

Tennesse Cove—Both pictures show the bluffs on the valley's coast. In the spring, these bluffs are blooming with native wildflowers!  Hello there! My name is Perla Martos, and I am the new habitat restoration intern with the Golden National Recreation Area. As an intern, I will...

  Hello! Trey Aviles here reporting live from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in cold Northern California! I guess cold is subjective as one of our interns from the Seattle area thinks it's warm here, but I just moved from a sub-tropical region and I'm...