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Golden Gate National Recreational Area
Your Dollars At Work - Trails
New Stairs Built at Muir Beach Overlook.

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Trails Forever built new stairs at the Muir Beach Overlook.

Your recreation fee dollars are partially funding the Trails Forever program, which is renovating and expanding park trails. Trails Forever provides ongoing planning, design, construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of heavily used and actively maintained trails within the park. Trails Forever is sponsored by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, National Park Service, and Presidio Trust.

 
Student Conservation Corps members working on Sunset Loop Trail at Fort Funston.

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Student Conservation Corps members working on the Sunset Loop Trail at Fort Funston.

Your recreation fee dollars also support annual trail clearing and maintenance at the Phleger Estate in San Mateo County; trails in Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County; and various other trails parkwide. These annual trail projects also provide opportunities for youth groups to perform trail maintenance, such as the Marin Conservation Corps, Americorps, and Student Conservation Association.
Mission blue butterfly  

Did You Know?
The endangered mission blue butterfly inhabits from the Milagra Ridge in Pacifica, to portions of the Marin Headlands. This small butterfly is an important component of area grasslands. Its host plant is silver-leaf lupine, and it is only in its mature flight stage for three weeks?
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Last Updated: September 12, 2008 at 02:53 EST