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.
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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
Check out our new Heron Magazine
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Check out our new magazine showcasing the Youth Naturalist Internship Program.
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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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