SF Nature Ed in the News!
Click here for our September-October 2023 Newsletter!
October 14 - San Francisco Botanical Garden
November 11 - Chain of Lakes- Middle Lake Parking Lot
December - no field trips
Second Saturday of Each Month - Except July and August!
Saturday trips are led by a rotating group of Volunteers and take place at various locations in San Francisco - for example: San Francisco Botanical Garden, Herons Head Park, Chain of Lakes, Stow Lake, and Crissy Field. All trips start at 9:30 am and conclude at noon.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Maximum 12 participants who REGISTER.
Members free - Please send name, and email to info@sfnature.org by Thursday night before field trip. We will confirm on Friday.
Non-members - please pre-pay in advance by Flipcause on www.sfnature.org by Thursday night before field trip. We will email you on Friday confirming your place.
On Friday, we will email ACCEPTANCE TO THOSE who registered and non-members who prepaid.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Maximum 12 participants who REGISTER.
Members free - Please send name, and email to info@sfnature.org by Thursday night before field trip. We will confirm on Friday.
Non-members - please pre-pay in advance by Flipcause on www.sfnature.org by Thursday night before field trip. We will email you on Friday confirming your place.
On Friday, we will email ACCEPTANCE TO THOSE who registered and non-members who prepaid.
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SUMMER BIRDING FOR FAMILIES HAS CONCLUDED.
PLEASE WATCH OUR WEBSITE FOR FUTURE BIRDING FOR FAMILIES PROGRAMS. |
UPCOMING EVENTS
SEPT. 27-OCT. 27, 2023
YOU ARE INVITED TO VIEW SABRINA'S INCREDIBLE PHOTOS OF WILD BIRDS AT CITY HALL STARTING WED.
SEPT. 27TH FROM 2-5PM
Sabrina has served as a SFNE intern for three years- during 2016 & 2017 and again in 2023. Please join us for her exhibition.
SEPT. 27-OCT. 27, 2023
YOU ARE INVITED TO VIEW SABRINA'S INCREDIBLE PHOTOS OF WILD BIRDS AT CITY HALL STARTING WED.
SEPT. 27TH FROM 2-5PM
Sabrina has served as a SFNE intern for three years- during 2016 & 2017 and again in 2023. Please join us for her exhibition.
COMING SOON
NOVEMBER 4, 2023
Nancy DeStefanis, Executive Director will lecture on the Cliff House Totem Pole and the famous San Franciscan George Kerr Whitney, who founded Playland by the Sea and commissioned the Pole in 1947 and the Squamish Hereditary First Nation Chief Mathias Joe who carved it in British Columbia.
NOVEMBER 4, 2023
Nancy DeStefanis, Executive Director will lecture on the Cliff House Totem Pole and the famous San Franciscan George Kerr Whitney, who founded Playland by the Sea and commissioned the Pole in 1947 and the Squamish Hereditary First Nation Chief Mathias Joe who carved it in British Columbia.
San Francisco Nature Education
- Provides interactive environmental education programs that develop leadership and stewardship in youth and adults. Our school programs focus on providing educational enrichment to students from underserved communities. We use local parks as natural classrooms to observe local and migratory birds and to provide inspiring and engaging natural experiences. 20,000 students served to date.
- Conducts twenty-three field trips each year throughout San Francisco.
- Conducts Heron Watch six Saturdays in April and May each Spring. Adult volunteers and interns with high powered spotting scopes show the nesting herons and their chicks to the public during a three hour period each Sat. and answer questions.
- Trains middle school and high school students to serve as interns at Herons Head Park during winter migration and Stow Lake during the spring nesting season of the Great Blue Herons. 260 interns trained since 2002.
- Publishes an eBlue Heron Newsletter ten times per year.
Donate now to support our programs by clicking on the link below.
My Blue Herons
Great Blue Herons and Friends (2022)
Directed by Joy Chang, Senior Intern and produced by San Francisco Nature Education
The Great Blues of the Golden Gate
SF Nature Education's new film on Youtube & https://www.sfnature.org/
Directed by Joy Chang, produced by Nancy DeStefanis, Exec. Director, SFNE
SF Nature in the News
Interview with Nancy DeStefanis - May 19, 2020 in the Frisc. Click here for the article. Photo by Kristi Coale.
Learn more about our school and Saturday programs below
School Programs - K-3 Classroom visits and field studies
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San Francisco Nature Education is now starting its 22nd year of delivering comprehensive environmental education programs to students from underserved schools in the San Francisco Unified School District.
Saturday Public Programs
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