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"content": "\u003cp>If there’s one thing about San Francisco that’s unwaveringly impressive, it’s the city’s parks. Every resident has access to some kind of park \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/in-san-francisco-everyone-lives-within-a-10-minute-walk-of-a-park/\">within a 10-minute walk.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the west side of the city is particularly blessed — between sprawling Golden Gate Park (it’s bigger than Manhattan’s Central Park) and the Presidio, there are \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/419/Who-We-Are\">more than 4,000 acres\u003c/a> of parkland in the city’s boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054109\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054109\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jogger runs along part of the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. The coastal path offers views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Pacific Ocean, access to historic military sites and Marshall’s Beach. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Golden Gate Park boasts ample museums and is perfect for a long stroll, if you’re really trying to immerse yourself in nature, consider taking your next hike this holiday weekend to the Presidio, where wildness can be found around every corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former U.S. Army site turned national park, the Presidio can feel shockingly wild for how urban it is. Getting lost in its tangles of \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability/creating-a-sustainable-forest\">cypress, redwood and eucalyptus trees\u003c/a> is easy to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may even see its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046806/coyotes-are-in-pupping-season-in-the-bay-area-heres-how-to-keep-yourself-and-your-dog-safe\">infamous coyotes,\u003c/a> which inhabit the area and are often responsible for seasonal trail closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12054103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf-1536x994.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio’s sheer size, however, can be initially daunting for many would-be explorers. Perhaps you’ve only visited \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/andy-goldsworthys-wood-line\">Andy Goldsworthy’s ever-decaying \u003cem>Wood Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a> while traveling on \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/lovers-lane-trail\">Lover’s Lane\u003c/a>, allegedly San Francisco’s oldest footpath. Or maybe you’ve taken on the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042938/hiking-along-beautiful-bluffs-can-get-risky-heres-how-to-stay-safe\">Batteries to Bluffs\u003c/a> trail, or the stroll from Crissy Field along \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/golden-gate-promenade-bay-trail\">Golden Gate Promenade \u003c/a>to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/fort-point-national-historic-site\">Fort Point\u003c/a> and the iconic bridge itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But head inland a bit and you’ll discover the park has far more than meets the eye, including a network of trails that take you through its most hidden, and some of its best, spots. Read on for four of the best hikes to discover the Presidio, from incredible views to off-the-beaten-path finds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A word about safety: The Presidio is home to an active coyote population, so some sections of the park, like sections of the Park Trail and the Bay Area Ridge Trail, are closed to dogs in certain seasons to prevent dog-coyote conflicts. \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability/coyotes-in-the-presidio\">Remember to check for closures\u003c/a> before heading out, keep your dog leashed and abide by all posted signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with a ‘wilderness’ feel: The Ecology Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the park’s shortest but most immersive trails is the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/ecology-trail\">Ecology Trail\u003c/a>, which winds around a southeastern segment of the park and takes hikers through redwoods, native grasslands and even coastal wetland habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upper trail is pedestrian only, while the lower trail allows bikes. Stop at \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/inspiration-point-overlook\">Inspiration Point Overlook\u003c/a> for one of the best views in the park, overlooking Angel Island, the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055105\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Ecology Trail, near Inspiration Point, in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along the way, don’t forget to detour to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/el-polin-spring\">El Polín Spring\u003c/a>, a natural spring that was foundational to the Indigenous people who lived in the area and the Spanish and U.S. armies who later occupied it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the Tennessee Hollow Watershed, the site of the spring was also home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/juana-briones.htm\">Doña Juana Briones de Miranda\u003c/a>, among the first settlers of then-Yerba Buena, who lived there with her family in the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidio Trust spokesperson Lisa Petrie said when the park was first established, cleaning up and restoring native habitat to the spring and the surrounding ecosystem was a high priority.[aside postID=news_12052990 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/CampingGetty.jpg']Now, \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability\">everything from great horned owls to frogs and even turtles\u003c/a> can be found there, and it’s also the site used to first reintroduce species that have been threatened back into the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the habitat was planted there, the area just started to thrive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get to the spring from the south, a zig-zagging trail winds downhill through scrubland to a boardwalk and the entrance of the spring, tucked away inside a sheltered oak-tree wildlife hub. Here, you’ll also find a “field station” housing materials for kids to learn about the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby signage, which details the importance of the water to native species and the people who lived nearby, encourages visitors to slow down and listen to the birds and the wind as it moves through the three main habitats of the area — wetland, coastal scrub and grassland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just makes you feel like you’re in the wilderness,” Petrie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>The Ecology Trail is 1.4 miles in total and takes about half an hour to complete, but adding on a detour to El Polín Spring will tack on another 15–20 minutes or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with history: The Park Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bisecting the park north-south is the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/park-trail\">Park Trail\u003c/a>, which winds adjacent to the San Francisco National Cemetery, up to the Presidio Golf Course, around Mountain Lake and terminating at the former U.S. Marine Hospital — which is now housing for Presidio residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major highlight of the trail is a quick detour to the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/national-cemetery-overlook\">National Cemetery Overlook\u003c/a>, also accessible via the Bay Area Ridge Trail. The forest here is dense with green foliage and ivy crawling up eucalyptus trees. Above the cemetery is a place to sit and reflect or meander through a World War I monument adorned with excerpts from \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/wwim/learn/historyculture/young.htm\">Archibald MacLeish’s poem \u003cem>The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cemetery Overlook in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025, looks out over the National Cemetery and the San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calvin Anderson, a San Francisco resident who was out walking to the overlook, said his son goes to school not too far away — so he often comes out to Inspiration Point and the Cemetery Overlook, both for the history and the views of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even have it tattooed on my arm,” he said of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1WaXHWVkgLirukBHy8AuipWBKO60eYUY&ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"1920\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the only homage along this trail to those lost. At its northernmost end, you’ll find a \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/presidio-pet-cemetery\">pet cemetery\u003c/a>. Then, as the Park Trail winds its way south, it passes near the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/marine-cemetery-vista\">Marine Cemetery Vista\u003c/a> overlooking the park’s dune habitat, which honors merchant mariners who died at the nearby Marine Hospital, whose graves were rediscovered in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>The Park Trail winds north to south for 1.7 miles in total. Add on detours to the National Cemetery Overlook and Marine Cemetery Vista, and it’ll come out closer to 2–2.5 miles for a little under an hour of walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with art: The Bay Area Ridge Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Ridge Trail is a more than 500-mile network of trails that \u003ca href=\"https://ridgetrail.org/\">creates a ring around the entire Bay Area\u003c/a> — and\u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/bay-area-ridge-trail\"> its Presidio segment \u003c/a>is a highlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near its southern start, the trail passes next to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/andy-goldsworthys-spire\">another Andy Goldsworthy sculpture called \u003cem>Spire\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>The artist built this artwork from 37 Monterey cypress trees that had to be removed during the park’s restoration, and it’s now surrounded by new trees planted at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are setup at Rob Hill Campground, above Immigrant Point Overlook, in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As well as being an arresting sight, \u003cem>Spire \u003c/em>is “almost acting like a measuring stick to see the natural progression of the new trees that were planted,” Petrie said. “It’s just a striking moment to be able to consider the various life cycles of trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the National Cemetery Overlook, along the way you’ll skirt the Presidio Golf Course — as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/rob-hill-campground\">Rob Hill Campground\u003c/a>, the highest point in the Presidio, which \u003ca href=\"https://rvparksf.com/\">until recently\u003c/a> was the only campground within the city. During World War II, it was a lookout that then became a campground maintained by the Boy Scouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it welcomes up to 30 people at each site during the summer months. \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10172170\">Rob Hill Group Campground reservations \u003c/a>get snapped up quickly on weekends, but tend to be easy to get on weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the sites themselves is a dune restoration site and a forest with a fire circle. Petrie said if the weather is right, at nighttime while camping, you may even see stars and hear the evocative foghorn in the distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can also really hear the great horned owls up there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>The total length of this section of the Bay Area Ridge Trail is just 2.5 miles, and takes just under an hour to complete from one end to the other. If you’re planning to hike it point to point, it’s easily accessible by public transit on both ends via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/1-california\">1 Muni bus\u003c/a> from the south and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/28-19th-avenue\">28 from the north near the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/a> Reservations at Rob Hill Campground cost $92 per night on weekdays and $240 on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with stunning views: Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 1,200-mile \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/juan-bautista-de-anza-national-historic-trail\">Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail \u003c/a>crosses three states and even an international border, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/juba/planyourvisit/maps.htm\">following the colonizer’s route\u003c/a> from Sonora, Mexico, to San Francisco in 1776.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for you, its Presidio segment is just under three miles long, following the expedition’s route from Mountain Lake to the Golden Gate Bridge, with a whole lot of vistas along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from Immigrant Point Overlook in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In total, the park has eight scenic overlooks, which Petrie said were key to transforming the Presidio from a military base to a national park site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The least assuming but most unique is the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/lobos-valley-overlook\">Lobos Valley Overlook\u003c/a>, which gives a rare west-facing view of Sea Cliff and the Legion of Honor Museum beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/immigrant-point-overlook\">Immigrant Point Overlook\u003c/a> perches hikers above the Batteries-to-Bluffs trails, where the expanse of the Pacific Ocean beyond dominates the view, honoring immigrants to the United States who landed on these shores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll also encounter the dramatic \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/pacific-overlook\">Pacific Overlook\u003c/a> and its hidden picnic tables, and the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/golden-gate-overlook\">Golden Gate Overlook\u003c/a>, which Petrie highlighted as one of the most “unusual, head-on” views of the bridge in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1cMScoOQYrt1ezTgUGz_2P_laW8aJMyg&ehbc=2E312F\" height=\"480\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the trails in the park are up to two to three miles maximum, Petrie encouraged hikers to get creative to make a full day out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing how you can do loops and put the trails together,” Petrie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>At almost three miles, this section of trail takes around an hour to complete. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If there’s one thing about San Francisco that’s unwaveringly impressive, it’s the city’s parks. Every resident has access to some kind of park \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/in-san-francisco-everyone-lives-within-a-10-minute-walk-of-a-park/\">within a 10-minute walk.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the west side of the city is particularly blessed — between sprawling Golden Gate Park (it’s bigger than Manhattan’s Central Park) and the Presidio, there are \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/419/Who-We-Are\">more than 4,000 acres\u003c/a> of parkland in the city’s boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054109\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054109\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jogger runs along part of the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. The coastal path offers views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Pacific Ocean, access to historic military sites and Marshall’s Beach. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Golden Gate Park boasts ample museums and is perfect for a long stroll, if you’re really trying to immerse yourself in nature, consider taking your next hike this holiday weekend to the Presidio, where wildness can be found around every corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former U.S. Army site turned national park, the Presidio can feel shockingly wild for how urban it is. Getting lost in its tangles of \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability/creating-a-sustainable-forest\">cypress, redwood and eucalyptus trees\u003c/a> is easy to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may even see its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046806/coyotes-are-in-pupping-season-in-the-bay-area-heres-how-to-keep-yourself-and-your-dog-safe\">infamous coyotes,\u003c/a> which inhabit the area and are often responsible for seasonal trail closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12054103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Trails-Map-Accessible.pdf-1536x994.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio’s sheer size, however, can be initially daunting for many would-be explorers. Perhaps you’ve only visited \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/andy-goldsworthys-wood-line\">Andy Goldsworthy’s ever-decaying \u003cem>Wood Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a> while traveling on \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/lovers-lane-trail\">Lover’s Lane\u003c/a>, allegedly San Francisco’s oldest footpath. Or maybe you’ve taken on the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042938/hiking-along-beautiful-bluffs-can-get-risky-heres-how-to-stay-safe\">Batteries to Bluffs\u003c/a> trail, or the stroll from Crissy Field along \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/golden-gate-promenade-bay-trail\">Golden Gate Promenade \u003c/a>to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/fort-point-national-historic-site\">Fort Point\u003c/a> and the iconic bridge itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But head inland a bit and you’ll discover the park has far more than meets the eye, including a network of trails that take you through its most hidden, and some of its best, spots. Read on for four of the best hikes to discover the Presidio, from incredible views to off-the-beaten-path finds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A word about safety: The Presidio is home to an active coyote population, so some sections of the park, like sections of the Park Trail and the Bay Area Ridge Trail, are closed to dogs in certain seasons to prevent dog-coyote conflicts. \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability/coyotes-in-the-presidio\">Remember to check for closures\u003c/a> before heading out, keep your dog leashed and abide by all posted signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with a ‘wilderness’ feel: The Ecology Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the park’s shortest but most immersive trails is the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/ecology-trail\">Ecology Trail\u003c/a>, which winds around a southeastern segment of the park and takes hikers through redwoods, native grasslands and even coastal wetland habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upper trail is pedestrian only, while the lower trail allows bikes. Stop at \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/inspiration-point-overlook\">Inspiration Point Overlook\u003c/a> for one of the best views in the park, overlooking Angel Island, the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055105\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Ecology Trail, near Inspiration Point, in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along the way, don’t forget to detour to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/el-polin-spring\">El Polín Spring\u003c/a>, a natural spring that was foundational to the Indigenous people who lived in the area and the Spanish and U.S. armies who later occupied it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the Tennessee Hollow Watershed, the site of the spring was also home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/juana-briones.htm\">Doña Juana Briones de Miranda\u003c/a>, among the first settlers of then-Yerba Buena, who lived there with her family in the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidio Trust spokesperson Lisa Petrie said when the park was first established, cleaning up and restoring native habitat to the spring and the surrounding ecosystem was a high priority.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability\">everything from great horned owls to frogs and even turtles\u003c/a> can be found there, and it’s also the site used to first reintroduce species that have been threatened back into the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the habitat was planted there, the area just started to thrive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get to the spring from the south, a zig-zagging trail winds downhill through scrubland to a boardwalk and the entrance of the spring, tucked away inside a sheltered oak-tree wildlife hub. Here, you’ll also find a “field station” housing materials for kids to learn about the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby signage, which details the importance of the water to native species and the people who lived nearby, encourages visitors to slow down and listen to the birds and the wind as it moves through the three main habitats of the area — wetland, coastal scrub and grassland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just makes you feel like you’re in the wilderness,” Petrie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>The Ecology Trail is 1.4 miles in total and takes about half an hour to complete, but adding on a detour to El Polín Spring will tack on another 15–20 minutes or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with history: The Park Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bisecting the park north-south is the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/park-trail\">Park Trail\u003c/a>, which winds adjacent to the San Francisco National Cemetery, up to the Presidio Golf Course, around Mountain Lake and terminating at the former U.S. Marine Hospital — which is now housing for Presidio residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major highlight of the trail is a quick detour to the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/national-cemetery-overlook\">National Cemetery Overlook\u003c/a>, also accessible via the Bay Area Ridge Trail. The forest here is dense with green foliage and ivy crawling up eucalyptus trees. Above the cemetery is a place to sit and reflect or meander through a World War I monument adorned with excerpts from \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/wwim/learn/historyculture/young.htm\">Archibald MacLeish’s poem \u003cem>The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-13-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cemetery Overlook in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025, looks out over the National Cemetery and the San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calvin Anderson, a San Francisco resident who was out walking to the overlook, said his son goes to school not too far away — so he often comes out to Inspiration Point and the Cemetery Overlook, both for the history and the views of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even have it tattooed on my arm,” he said of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1WaXHWVkgLirukBHy8AuipWBKO60eYUY&ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"1920\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the only homage along this trail to those lost. At its northernmost end, you’ll find a \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/presidio-pet-cemetery\">pet cemetery\u003c/a>. Then, as the Park Trail winds its way south, it passes near the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/marine-cemetery-vista\">Marine Cemetery Vista\u003c/a> overlooking the park’s dune habitat, which honors merchant mariners who died at the nearby Marine Hospital, whose graves were rediscovered in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>The Park Trail winds north to south for 1.7 miles in total. Add on detours to the National Cemetery Overlook and Marine Cemetery Vista, and it’ll come out closer to 2–2.5 miles for a little under an hour of walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with art: The Bay Area Ridge Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Ridge Trail is a more than 500-mile network of trails that \u003ca href=\"https://ridgetrail.org/\">creates a ring around the entire Bay Area\u003c/a> — and\u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/bay-area-ridge-trail\"> its Presidio segment \u003c/a>is a highlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near its southern start, the trail passes next to \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/andy-goldsworthys-spire\">another Andy Goldsworthy sculpture called \u003cem>Spire\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>The artist built this artwork from 37 Monterey cypress trees that had to be removed during the park’s restoration, and it’s now surrounded by new trees planted at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are setup at Rob Hill Campground, above Immigrant Point Overlook, in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As well as being an arresting sight, \u003cem>Spire \u003c/em>is “almost acting like a measuring stick to see the natural progression of the new trees that were planted,” Petrie said. “It’s just a striking moment to be able to consider the various life cycles of trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the National Cemetery Overlook, along the way you’ll skirt the Presidio Golf Course — as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/rob-hill-campground\">Rob Hill Campground\u003c/a>, the highest point in the Presidio, which \u003ca href=\"https://rvparksf.com/\">until recently\u003c/a> was the only campground within the city. During World War II, it was a lookout that then became a campground maintained by the Boy Scouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it welcomes up to 30 people at each site during the summer months. \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10172170\">Rob Hill Group Campground reservations \u003c/a>get snapped up quickly on weekends, but tend to be easy to get on weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the sites themselves is a dune restoration site and a forest with a fire circle. Petrie said if the weather is right, at nighttime while camping, you may even see stars and hear the evocative foghorn in the distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can also really hear the great horned owls up there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>The total length of this section of the Bay Area Ridge Trail is just 2.5 miles, and takes just under an hour to complete from one end to the other. If you’re planning to hike it point to point, it’s easily accessible by public transit on both ends via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/1-california\">1 Muni bus\u003c/a> from the south and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/28-19th-avenue\">28 from the north near the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/a> Reservations at Rob Hill Campground cost $92 per night on weekdays and $240 on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For a Presidio hike with stunning views: Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 1,200-mile \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/juan-bautista-de-anza-national-historic-trail\">Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail \u003c/a>crosses three states and even an international border, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/juba/planyourvisit/maps.htm\">following the colonizer’s route\u003c/a> from Sonora, Mexico, to San Francisco in 1776.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for you, its Presidio segment is just under three miles long, following the expedition’s route from Mountain Lake to the Golden Gate Bridge, with a whole lot of vistas along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from Immigrant Point Overlook in the Presidio of San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In total, the park has eight scenic overlooks, which Petrie said were key to transforming the Presidio from a military base to a national park site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The least assuming but most unique is the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/lobos-valley-overlook\">Lobos Valley Overlook\u003c/a>, which gives a rare west-facing view of Sea Cliff and the Legion of Honor Museum beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/immigrant-point-overlook\">Immigrant Point Overlook\u003c/a> perches hikers above the Batteries-to-Bluffs trails, where the expanse of the Pacific Ocean beyond dominates the view, honoring immigrants to the United States who landed on these shores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll also encounter the dramatic \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/pacific-overlook\">Pacific Overlook\u003c/a> and its hidden picnic tables, and the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/golden-gate-overlook\">Golden Gate Overlook\u003c/a>, which Petrie highlighted as one of the most “unusual, head-on” views of the bridge in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1cMScoOQYrt1ezTgUGz_2P_laW8aJMyg&ehbc=2E312F\" height=\"480\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the trails in the park are up to two to three miles maximum, Petrie encouraged hikers to get creative to make a full day out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing how you can do loops and put the trails together,” Petrie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>By the numbers: \u003c/em>At almost three miles, this section of trail takes around an hour to complete. 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The Presidio Trust, the federal agency that manages the space, is financially self-sufficient and relies on revenue from leasing historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re a great example of how we can do a great of job of collaborating with the tools to help manage federal resources,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though earlier Thursday he advocated for turning Alcatraz back into a federal prison — a move that would require transferring it out of the park system — Burgum had praise for the Presidio’s 1,500 acres of hiking trails, green space and restaurants on the northwest edge of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors gather at Outpost Meadow in the Presidio of San Francisco on July 17, 2025, as the new park officially opens to the public. The expansion offers picnic areas, BBQ grills and views of the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the Tunnel Tops project. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was a far cry from how Trump described the park’s operation in an executive order he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">penned in February\u003c/a>, which could have made the midday tour with the CEO of the Presidio Trust pretty awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This order commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary,” the order reads. It applied to the Presidio Trust and three other agencies that Trump’s order suggested were causing government “waste and abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Jean Fraser, the Trust’s CEO, guided Burgum around the fire pit, picnic area and low-back lounge chairs that look out on the Presidio’s premier view of Crissy Field, the secretary seemed to disagree with Trump.[aside postID=news_12048367 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BondiBurgumSFVisitAP1.jpg']When asked if he would be reporting his positive experience back to the president, Burgum didn’t give a direct answer but said that within the Department of the Interior, the model the Presidio uses to fundraise and function “is something we have to look at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress created the Presidio Trust in 1996, it provided federal money to aid the property’s transition from an Army base but required it to become financially independent by 2013. That public-private partnership lessened the financial burden on the Department of the Interior, helping it garner bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgum said the National Park Service has a lot of deferred maintenance that needs to be addressed and could benefit from private sector support to do so. The park service manages 85 million acres of land across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the 15 or so minute walk through the Presidio, he complimented the red, movable chairs that tourists and locals sat in drinking coffee, gave the park’s landscape designers kudos for the trees and native plants lining its gravel walkways and applauded the recently debuted expansion of the Tunnel Tops picnic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National parks have been called America’s best idea, and we need to invest in that,” he said as the tour wrapped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current administration, however, has overseen a shrinking National Park Service as it takes a hatchet to federal agencies. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:38 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi visited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alcatraz-island\">Alcatraz Island\u003c/a> in San Francisco on Thursday morning to announce plans to reopen the former federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED that Bondi and Burgum toured the prison — which once housed well-known criminals like Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly — and the surrounding island with park police and directed staff to collaborate on the planning needed to rehabilitate and reopen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spent the day on Alcatraz Island, a [National Park Service] site, to start the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals,” Burgum \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/1945893688338493541\">said on X\u003c/a> Thursday, adding that he was following a directive from President Donald Trump. “This administration is restoring safety, justice, and order to our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip comes two months after Trump floated the idea of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038676/trump-says-he-will-reopen-alcatraz-prison\">reopening Alcatraz\u003c/a> on social media. House Republicans are expected to introduce legislation that would make the feat possible, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s office confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Make no mistake: this stupidity is a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from this Administration’s cruelest actions yet in their Big, Ugly Law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a rally opposing House Republicans’ tax proposal prior to the final House Vote on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May, Trump announced his desire to re-open the federal prison in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114452025916969327\">post on Truth Social\u003c/a>, saying he would direct the Bureau of Prisons and federal safety agencies to reopen “a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” the post reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters Thursday morning that the Trump administration had no “feasible plan” to reopen the prison.[aside postID=news_12048509 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Interior-Secretary-Doug-Burgum.jpg']“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. The Presidio Trust is financially self-sufficient, relying on money from leasing its historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviving a prison on Alcatraz, on the other hand, would be costly — and inefficient, according to critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcatraz was shut down due to high operating costs, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/about/history/alcatraz.jsp\">the BOP estimated\u003c/a> in 1959 were about three times as high as any other federal facility. At the time, the site also required an estimated $3 million to $5 million in restoration and maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its highest occupancy, the site that now serves as a tourist destination housed less than 1% of federal prisoners in the country, with a usual occupancy between 260 and 275, according to the BOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spent the day on Alcatraz Island, a [National Park Service] site, to start the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals,” Burgum \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/1945893688338493541\">said on X\u003c/a> Thursday, adding that he was following a directive from President Donald Trump. “This administration is restoring safety, justice, and order to our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip comes two months after Trump floated the idea of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038676/trump-says-he-will-reopen-alcatraz-prison\">reopening Alcatraz\u003c/a> on social media. House Republicans are expected to introduce legislation that would make the feat possible, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s office confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Make no mistake: this stupidity is a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from this Administration’s cruelest actions yet in their Big, Ugly Law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a rally opposing House Republicans’ tax proposal prior to the final House Vote on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May, Trump announced his desire to re-open the federal prison in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114452025916969327\">post on Truth Social\u003c/a>, saying he would direct the Bureau of Prisons and federal safety agencies to reopen “a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” the post reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters Thursday morning that the Trump administration had no “feasible plan” to reopen the prison.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. The Presidio Trust is financially self-sufficient, relying on money from leasing its historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviving a prison on Alcatraz, on the other hand, would be costly — and inefficient, according to critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcatraz was shut down due to high operating costs, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/about/history/alcatraz.jsp\">the BOP estimated\u003c/a> in 1959 were about three times as high as any other federal facility. At the time, the site also required an estimated $3 million to $5 million in restoration and maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its highest occupancy, the site that now serves as a tourist destination housed less than 1% of federal prisoners in the country, with a usual occupancy between 260 and 275, according to the BOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And while \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/coyotes-san-francisco-california.html\">the reasons for their return may elude us\u003c/a>, these coyotes, which have been spotted roaming parks, encountering humans and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025959/san-francisco-coyotes-now-theyre-in-the-subway-too\">even strolling in a Muni tunnel\u003c/a>, certainly don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/coyotes-san-francisco-california.html\">While the reemergence of coyotes in the city has some residents divided,\u003c/a> their presence across the entire Bay Area has become a reality, both for the coyotes themselves and the people that interact with them in parks, neighborhoods and their backyards. And during the summer months, known as “pupping season,” human-coyote interactions can increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though a coyote that’s protecting its young may seem threatening, the animals are unlikely to actually get aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareacoyote.org/\">Many local agencies, researchers and jurisdictions are working together\u003c/a> to manage coyote populations and help educate residents on the animals and their behaviors. Keep reading for what to know about coyotes and safety in the Bay Area, especially for pet owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Arecoyotesdangeroustomeormypets\">Are coyotes dangerous to me or my pets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatshouldIknowabouttheirpuprearingseason\">What should I know about their pup-rearing season?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatdoIdoifIseeacoyote\">What do I do if I see a coyote?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What’s with all the coyotes in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“They are part of our native ecosystem,” said Phoebe Parker-Shames, wildlife ecologist for The Presidio Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyotes naturally control pests, like rats, mice and gophers, and studies have shown that they also \u003ca href=\"https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PC_SAB_Coyote-Facts_FINAL_2020_08.pdf\">contribute to bird biodiversity\u003c/a> by keeping feral cats and other small predator populations in check, Parker-Shames said. Plus, they don’t need much to survive: \u003ca href=\"https://discoverwildcare.org/understanding-coyote-denning-behavior/\">all they really need is a small burrow or opening to raise their infants, called a “den,”\u003c/a> and food, which also comes in the form of human trash. And with few natural predators in populated areas, they can actually thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046810 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coyotes aren’t taking over the city anytime soon, said Phoebe Parker-Shames, a wildlife ecologist for The Presidio Trust. “We did see an increase when they first reestablished themselves into the city. But at this point in time, it will be and it has been stable.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Presidio Trust)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parker-Shames said \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability/coyotes-in-the-presidio\">the Presidio is working toward human-coyote “coexistence”\u003c/a> so humans and coyotes can share space in the city and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that due to their reemergence in San Francisco in particular, there’s a common misconception that coyote populations are out of control or going to “take over the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once juvenile coyotes learn to fend for themselves as early as 10 months old, they tend to separate from their families and find their own territory, so there’s never a huge number of animals occupying the same space at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is because coyotes are very territorial animals, it keeps the population stable year over year,” Parker-Shames said. “We did see an increase when they first reestablished themselves into the city. But at this point in time, it will be and it has been stable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Presidio, Parker-Shames said, coyotes are denning in the center of the park right now, near the golf course, “which is pretty usual for us,” she said. “That’s an area that has much less dog activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are coyotes dangerous to me or \u003ca id=\"Arecoyotesdangeroustomeormypets\">\u003c/a>my pets?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another point of confusion is the personal risk a coyote poses, Parker-Shames said. The biggest coyotes are only around 30 pounds, so “there’s a pretty good overlap between the largest raccoons and the smaller coyotes,” she said. “These are not fundamentally dangerous animals.”[aside postID=news_12046061 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe1.jpg']“\u003ca href=\"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10549\">It’s incredibly rare for people to be hurt by coyotes\u003c/a>,” Parker-Shames said, but they do pose a real threat to dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a coyote’s instinct is to see other canines, usually other coyotes or wolves, as dangerous to them, their pups and their territory. So when a coyote meets a dog, “it’s seeing: ‘This is a threat to myself and to my baby,’” Parker-Shames said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why coyotes will often go after dogs, even if they’re afraid of the humans nearby. It’s also why keeping your dog on a leash can be so effective in preventing interactions that could put your dog in danger, both because your presence may deter the coyote and also\u003ca href=\"https://coyoteyipps.com/2019/06/24/please-leash-up-coyotes-are-entitled-to-defend-their-den-areas-here-in-san-francisco/\"> prevent your dog from checking out den sites or engaging with coyotes,\u003c/a> which may be more defensive around their young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our data indicates that if you’ve got a leash on your dog, you are far, far less likely to have a negative encounter with a coyote,” Parker-Shames said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I know during coyote \u003ca id=\"WhatshouldIknowabouttheirpuprearingseason\">\u003c/a>pupping season?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pup-rearing season, when the coyote pups are born and eventually start to get big enough to go out on their own, stretches from springtime to fall, and this is when lots of activity occurs, Parker-Shames said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coyotes are creating dens, having pups, and then the pup is getting bigger and starting to get a little bit more independent and curious and exploring the spaces around them,” Parker-Shames said. “And then eventually, [the pups are] starting to be fully independent and dispersing and trying to find their own territories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1003px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046819 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphamale_InfantryTerraceMay2020DH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1003\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphamale_InfantryTerraceMay2020DH.png 1003w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphamale_InfantryTerraceMay2020DH-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Near the main denning area in the Presidio, a few trails are currently closed preemptively during the height of pupping season. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Presidio Trust)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What hikers and dog walkers should know: Pupping season is also when coyote parents can be more protective of their pups, Mason said. Plus, with kids out of school, more people are out on trails, so sightings can be common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you notice a coyote trailing you, that’s a behavior known as “escorting,” when the animal “follows at a closer distance than usual to encourage departure from the area,” Mason said. And while the parent may bare its teeth or growl, escorting isn’t typically aggressive — the coyote is usually just making sure you’re heading out of the vicinity of its pups. “The best course of action is to leave the area calmly and without running,” Mason advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the main denning area in the Presidio, \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/visit/dogs-in-the-presidio\">a few trails are currently closed preemptively\u003c/a> during the height of pupping season, with some closed only to dogs. On other trails throughout the Bay Area, signage will typically alert visitors to coyote activity in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do I do \u003ca id=\"WhatdoIdoifIseeacoyote\">\u003c/a>if I see a coyote?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is just keep a distance,” Mason said. “It’s best to walk calmly away and leave the area immediately,” — but don’t run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyotes are more active at dawn or dusk, but they usually observe you from afar, Mason said. So if you want to avoid an interaction, keep your dog leashed and any kids close by — and don’t go off-trail into their natural hiding spots, like brush. Do not ever feed a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 964px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046817 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphafemale_InfantryTerrace_March2020DH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphafemale_InfantryTerrace_March2020DH.png 964w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphafemale_InfantryTerrace_March2020DH-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coyotes are more active at dawn or dusk and will usually observe people from afar, East Bay Regional Parks spokesperson Dave Mason said. He advises staying on trails, keeping dogs leashed and children close — and avoiding off-trail areas where coyotes may be hiding, such as dense brush. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Presidio Trust)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re with a dog, your best bet is to immediately get your dog under control on a leash or by picking it up without turning your back on the coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then make eye contact with a coyote, be big and loud, and then back away with your dog,” Parker-Shames said. This is called “\u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=123886\">hazing,\u003c/a>” and should scare the coyote away. Never let your dog play or chase a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cats are also at risk of being killed by coyotes, so keeping them indoors can prevent any encounters. Keeping your trash, pet food and fruit from trees contained can help minimize coyote activity in your neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I learn more about coyote safety?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coyote-conversations-free-community-meeting-tickets-1432303471239?aff=oddtdtcreator\">The Presidio Trust is hosting a free community meeting on July 16 from 6 to 7 p.m.\u003c/a> on “understanding and coexisting with coyotes in the Presidio. Experts like Parker-Shames will share information about coyote behavior, safety and their role in local ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an aggressive encounter with a coyote does happen in the Presidio, you can report it to the Presidio Trust at 415-561-4270 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:coyote@presidiotrust.gov\">coyote@presidiotrust.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report an aggressive encounter or a coyote in need of help in East Bay Regional Parks, contact 510-881-1833. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042615/animal-rescue-what-to-do-if-you-find-a-sick-or-lost-critter-in-the-bay-area\">If you find a sick or injured coyote elsewhere in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, contact a wildlife hospital like \u003ca href=\"https://discoverwildcare.org/\">WildCare\u003c/a>, which may be able to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report a sighting in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfanimalcare.org/living-with-urban-wildlife/coyote-sightings/\">you can alert Animal Care & Control\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://bayareacoyote.org/report/\">or fill out this form for a sighting outside of the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For any emergencies, call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/coyotes-san-francisco-california.html\">While the reemergence of coyotes in the city has some residents divided,\u003c/a> their presence across the entire Bay Area has become a reality, both for the coyotes themselves and the people that interact with them in parks, neighborhoods and their backyards. And during the summer months, known as “pupping season,” human-coyote interactions can increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though a coyote that’s protecting its young may seem threatening, the animals are unlikely to actually get aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareacoyote.org/\">Many local agencies, researchers and jurisdictions are working together\u003c/a> to manage coyote populations and help educate residents on the animals and their behaviors. Keep reading for what to know about coyotes and safety in the Bay Area, especially for pet owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Arecoyotesdangeroustomeormypets\">Are coyotes dangerous to me or my pets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatshouldIknowabouttheirpuprearingseason\">What should I know about their pup-rearing season?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatdoIdoifIseeacoyote\">What do I do if I see a coyote?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What’s with all the coyotes in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“They are part of our native ecosystem,” said Phoebe Parker-Shames, wildlife ecologist for The Presidio Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyotes naturally control pests, like rats, mice and gophers, and studies have shown that they also \u003ca href=\"https://projectcoyote.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PC_SAB_Coyote-Facts_FINAL_2020_08.pdf\">contribute to bird biodiversity\u003c/a> by keeping feral cats and other small predator populations in check, Parker-Shames said. Plus, they don’t need much to survive: \u003ca href=\"https://discoverwildcare.org/understanding-coyote-denning-behavior/\">all they really need is a small burrow or opening to raise their infants, called a “den,”\u003c/a> and food, which also comes in the form of human trash. And with few natural predators in populated areas, they can actually thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046810 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coyotes aren’t taking over the city anytime soon, said Phoebe Parker-Shames, a wildlife ecologist for The Presidio Trust. “We did see an increase when they first reestablished themselves into the city. But at this point in time, it will be and it has been stable.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Presidio Trust)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parker-Shames said \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/about/sustainability/coyotes-in-the-presidio\">the Presidio is working toward human-coyote “coexistence”\u003c/a> so humans and coyotes can share space in the city and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that due to their reemergence in San Francisco in particular, there’s a common misconception that coyote populations are out of control or going to “take over the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once juvenile coyotes learn to fend for themselves as early as 10 months old, they tend to separate from their families and find their own territory, so there’s never a huge number of animals occupying the same space at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is because coyotes are very territorial animals, it keeps the population stable year over year,” Parker-Shames said. “We did see an increase when they first reestablished themselves into the city. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10549\">It’s incredibly rare for people to be hurt by coyotes\u003c/a>,” Parker-Shames said, but they do pose a real threat to dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a coyote’s instinct is to see other canines, usually other coyotes or wolves, as dangerous to them, their pups and their territory. So when a coyote meets a dog, “it’s seeing: ‘This is a threat to myself and to my baby,’” Parker-Shames said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why coyotes will often go after dogs, even if they’re afraid of the humans nearby. It’s also why keeping your dog on a leash can be so effective in preventing interactions that could put your dog in danger, both because your presence may deter the coyote and also\u003ca href=\"https://coyoteyipps.com/2019/06/24/please-leash-up-coyotes-are-entitled-to-defend-their-den-areas-here-in-san-francisco/\"> prevent your dog from checking out den sites or engaging with coyotes,\u003c/a> which may be more defensive around their young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our data indicates that if you’ve got a leash on your dog, you are far, far less likely to have a negative encounter with a coyote,” Parker-Shames said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I know during coyote \u003ca id=\"WhatshouldIknowabouttheirpuprearingseason\">\u003c/a>pupping season?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pup-rearing season, when the coyote pups are born and eventually start to get big enough to go out on their own, stretches from springtime to fall, and this is when lots of activity occurs, Parker-Shames said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coyotes are creating dens, having pups, and then the pup is getting bigger and starting to get a little bit more independent and curious and exploring the spaces around them,” Parker-Shames said. “And then eventually, [the pups are] starting to be fully independent and dispersing and trying to find their own territories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1003px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046819 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphamale_InfantryTerraceMay2020DH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1003\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphamale_InfantryTerraceMay2020DH.png 1003w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphamale_InfantryTerraceMay2020DH-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Near the main denning area in the Presidio, a few trails are currently closed preemptively during the height of pupping season. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Presidio Trust)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What hikers and dog walkers should know: Pupping season is also when coyote parents can be more protective of their pups, Mason said. Plus, with kids out of school, more people are out on trails, so sightings can be common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you notice a coyote trailing you, that’s a behavior known as “escorting,” when the animal “follows at a closer distance than usual to encourage departure from the area,” Mason said. And while the parent may bare its teeth or growl, escorting isn’t typically aggressive — the coyote is usually just making sure you’re heading out of the vicinity of its pups. “The best course of action is to leave the area calmly and without running,” Mason advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the main denning area in the Presidio, \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/visit/dogs-in-the-presidio\">a few trails are currently closed preemptively\u003c/a> during the height of pupping season, with some closed only to dogs. On other trails throughout the Bay Area, signage will typically alert visitors to coyote activity in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do I do \u003ca id=\"WhatdoIdoifIseeacoyote\">\u003c/a>if I see a coyote?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is just keep a distance,” Mason said. “It’s best to walk calmly away and leave the area immediately,” — but don’t run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyotes are more active at dawn or dusk, but they usually observe you from afar, Mason said. So if you want to avoid an interaction, keep your dog leashed and any kids close by — and don’t go off-trail into their natural hiding spots, like brush. Do not ever feed a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 964px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046817 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphafemale_InfantryTerrace_March2020DH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphafemale_InfantryTerrace_March2020DH.png 964w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/alphafemale_InfantryTerrace_March2020DH-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coyotes are more active at dawn or dusk and will usually observe people from afar, East Bay Regional Parks spokesperson Dave Mason said. 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Keeping your trash, pet food and fruit from trees contained can help minimize coyote activity in your neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I learn more about coyote safety?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coyote-conversations-free-community-meeting-tickets-1432303471239?aff=oddtdtcreator\">The Presidio Trust is hosting a free community meeting on July 16 from 6 to 7 p.m.\u003c/a> on “understanding and coexisting with coyotes in the Presidio. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1900s, San Francisco eradicated native coyotes from the city. But around 20 years ago, they returned and are now a part of daily life. For some residents, they’re a source of wonder, while others view them as a nuisance and a danger to pets and children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lin\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>ks:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/coyotes-san-francisco-california.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Coyotes of San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/insider/coyotes-photography.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How We Photographed Coyotes in San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2678301290&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Where are you likely to come across a coyote in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Increasingly, just about anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] There are different packs that control the green spaces. So anywhere from Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, to the Presidio, to Glen Canyon, to golf courses. That’s where they’re concentrated. But they’ve been getting more bold and they go out and explore the city. So you can see them walking up streets. One was found in a laundromat. Sam Altman found one in his backyard, lounging on patio furniture. So yeah, there’s about 100 of them now. I live in Glen Park, and I walk a lot in the canyon there and I see them. There are the warning signs up, and I saw one walking up and down a staircase there. They’re just like your neighbors, you say hi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] You mentioned you see them in your own neighborhood and it sounds like just depending where you live and where you hang out they’re basically part of daily life here in a weird way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] Yeah, people around the country who read my story could not believe that. It sounds so strange that these apex predators would just be out and about in a city, but they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] I mean, how would you describe people’s relationship to these coyotes in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] That’s where things are very divisive. Some people love them, they’ve become part of the culture in some ways. Some people love seeing them and consider it really cool that these wild creatures are just part of our city. They’re on murals now and there are talks at the libraries that just fill up like you can’t even get into them. They’re so popular. But then on the other hand people, especially those who have small dogs and walk them around the city, really do not like them. They can be very dangerous to small dogs especially those that are off leash and a number of them have been killed. They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. So then every spring more pups were born and now we have about a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] Are there any other theories about how these coyotes could have ended up back in San Francisco from the north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] It’s possible that they swam, but that is more of a challenge, of course, than walking across the bridge, as probably we could relate to. But interestingly, I learned after publication that there is a family living on Angel Island. So it seems like those probably did swim over, although that’s a shorter swim, so more feasible, unless maybe they hopped aboard a ferry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] I mean, I know you talked about this love-hate relationship that San Franciscans seem to have with these coyotes these days. And I know, you talked to a bunch of people. What are the range of feelings that you heard from folks about how they’re feeling about them these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] The scientists I talked to are very pro-coyote. They said, you know, you can’t do anything about them anyway. They’re going to be here as they proved they came back and repopulated. Some people say we should cull them, eradicate them again. But the scientists point out that would not work. They’re gonna come back. So there’s a lot of people who live in the city and think they’re majestic creatures. It’s kind a delightful little aspect of San Francisco that you see coyotes, you know, walking to your grocery store. Other people feel very differently, especially those who walk little dogs. I did interview a woman she talked about last fall walking her little eight pound pup at Chrissy Field and it is an off leash area although there were warning signs of coyotes. So she let her dog off leash but kept an eye on him and then a coyote came up and grabbed the dog in its mouth in front of her and ran off and she described screaming and chasing the coyote, eventually caught up to him and it was way too late for her dog. So to see that happen to your pet on a Saturday walk is pretty devastating, so obviously these emotions are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:41] Yeah, that’s traumatic. And there’s been a couple of more high profile incidents involving these coyotes in recent years, right, that’s, I think, really leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Right. So for example, there was one incident at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, I believe in the summer of 2024, where a five-year-old girl was bitten on the backside by a coyote and needed stitches. She was okay. But of course, that was traumatic as well. Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. And so there’s, you know, scientists are saying like, we need to better exist with these animals and be careful when we have little kids and little dogs in these wild spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] You talked earlier about the city’s approach to coyotes back in the 1900s, and basically the approach being get rid of the coyotes, but how would you describe the city approach to the coyote these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] So now they have a policy where if a coyote kills a little dog, they just consider that kind of the circle of life. That is prey. And it’s just, it can be traumatic to see it, you know, in a city and kind of feel strange and devastating, but it is also natural. But if they do go after children, then that’s when they will take action and discuss what has happened with federal agents and jointly decide when coyotes need to be taken out. So that really aggressive coyote who had killed a number of dogs, the city wasn’t going to do anything about that. But when the coyote did lunge at a school trip of children at Chrissy Field, they decided that the coyotes had to be eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Do we know whether San Francisco coyotes are in fact getting more aggressive? Like has their behavior changed over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Animal care and control gets reports about coyote behavior often. Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. And so coyotes are getting accustomed to associating humans with food. And that is a huge problem behind all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] It’s interesting. It sounds like, I mean, part of the problem is our relationship to the coyotes, actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:10:24] Right, so when this particular coyote was killed last fall, the Presidio Wildlife people actually got together and held a funeral for the coyote. They sang songs and spread flowers and they felt really devastated because this is a coyote family that lives in the Presidio, you know, well known to people who work there. They described it as a real failure on their part to not better educate the public and the failure of humans who are leaving far too much food out and kind of messing with the way coyotes naturally behave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] And I mean, talking about the circle of life, we actually kind of need these coyotes too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Yes, so although pet owners can be very anti-coyote, which can be understandable, the scientists I talked to said that they’re actually really important to the ecology of San Francisco. They keep the rat population in check. And they also kill feral cats, which can protect birds. So there’s a lot of benefits to having the coyotes around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] Yeah, I guess that’s why our streets don’t look like New York with the rats. Shout out to the coyotes. What would it look like to live in harmony with these coyotes, which as you’ve described are natural to this part of California. They’re important to our ecology. I mean, what do the people you talk with say when it comes to how we can live with these coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah, so they said the big thing is the food. Do not leave food scraps out and about. That’s probably just good behavior generally. But another issue is just to be better aware of what their behavior is. One behavior they have is called escorting. So if a parent coyote has babies in a den, they will be very protective of that space in the area around it. This has happened a lot at Bernal Hill where people will be walking their dogs and the coyotes appear to be very threatening. Their face looks threatening, their ears go back, they bare their teeth. But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Where are you likely to come across a coyote in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Increasingly, just about anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] There are different packs that control the green spaces. So anywhere from Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, to the Presidio, to Glen Canyon, to golf courses. That’s where they’re concentrated. But they’ve been getting more bold and they go out and explore the city. So you can see them walking up streets. One was found in a laundromat. Sam Altman found one in his backyard, lounging on patio furniture. So yeah, there’s about 100 of them now. I live in Glen Park, and I walk a lot in the canyon there and I see them. There are the warning signs up, and I saw one walking up and down a staircase there. They’re just like your neighbors, you say hi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] You mentioned you see them in your own neighborhood and it sounds like just depending where you live and where you hang out they’re basically part of daily life here in a weird way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] Yeah, people around the country who read my story could not believe that. It sounds so strange that these apex predators would just be out and about in a city, but they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] I mean, how would you describe people’s relationship to these coyotes in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] That’s where things are very divisive. Some people love them, they’ve become part of the culture in some ways. Some people love seeing them and consider it really cool that these wild creatures are just part of our city. They’re on murals now and there are talks at the libraries that just fill up like you can’t even get into them. They’re so popular. But then on the other hand people, especially those who have small dogs and walk them around the city, really do not like them. They can be very dangerous to small dogs especially those that are off leash and a number of them have been killed. They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. So then every spring more pups were born and now we have about a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] Are there any other theories about how these coyotes could have ended up back in San Francisco from the north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] It’s possible that they swam, but that is more of a challenge, of course, than walking across the bridge, as probably we could relate to. But interestingly, I learned after publication that there is a family living on Angel Island. So it seems like those probably did swim over, although that’s a shorter swim, so more feasible, unless maybe they hopped aboard a ferry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] I mean, I know you talked about this love-hate relationship that San Franciscans seem to have with these coyotes these days. And I know, you talked to a bunch of people. What are the range of feelings that you heard from folks about how they’re feeling about them these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] The scientists I talked to are very pro-coyote. They said, you know, you can’t do anything about them anyway. They’re going to be here as they proved they came back and repopulated. Some people say we should cull them, eradicate them again. But the scientists point out that would not work. They’re gonna come back. So there’s a lot of people who live in the city and think they’re majestic creatures. It’s kind a delightful little aspect of San Francisco that you see coyotes, you know, walking to your grocery store. Other people feel very differently, especially those who walk little dogs. I did interview a woman she talked about last fall walking her little eight pound pup at Chrissy Field and it is an off leash area although there were warning signs of coyotes. So she let her dog off leash but kept an eye on him and then a coyote came up and grabbed the dog in its mouth in front of her and ran off and she described screaming and chasing the coyote, eventually caught up to him and it was way too late for her dog. So to see that happen to your pet on a Saturday walk is pretty devastating, so obviously these emotions are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:41] Yeah, that’s traumatic. And there’s been a couple of more high profile incidents involving these coyotes in recent years, right, that’s, I think, really leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Right. So for example, there was one incident at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, I believe in the summer of 2024, where a five-year-old girl was bitten on the backside by a coyote and needed stitches. She was okay. But of course, that was traumatic as well. Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. And so there’s, you know, scientists are saying like, we need to better exist with these animals and be careful when we have little kids and little dogs in these wild spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] You talked earlier about the city’s approach to coyotes back in the 1900s, and basically the approach being get rid of the coyotes, but how would you describe the city approach to the coyote these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] So now they have a policy where if a coyote kills a little dog, they just consider that kind of the circle of life. That is prey. And it’s just, it can be traumatic to see it, you know, in a city and kind of feel strange and devastating, but it is also natural. But if they do go after children, then that’s when they will take action and discuss what has happened with federal agents and jointly decide when coyotes need to be taken out. So that really aggressive coyote who had killed a number of dogs, the city wasn’t going to do anything about that. But when the coyote did lunge at a school trip of children at Chrissy Field, they decided that the coyotes had to be eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Do we know whether San Francisco coyotes are in fact getting more aggressive? Like has their behavior changed over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Animal care and control gets reports about coyote behavior often. Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. And so coyotes are getting accustomed to associating humans with food. And that is a huge problem behind all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] It’s interesting. It sounds like, I mean, part of the problem is our relationship to the coyotes, actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:10:24] Right, so when this particular coyote was killed last fall, the Presidio Wildlife people actually got together and held a funeral for the coyote. They sang songs and spread flowers and they felt really devastated because this is a coyote family that lives in the Presidio, you know, well known to people who work there. They described it as a real failure on their part to not better educate the public and the failure of humans who are leaving far too much food out and kind of messing with the way coyotes naturally behave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] And I mean, talking about the circle of life, we actually kind of need these coyotes too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Yes, so although pet owners can be very anti-coyote, which can be understandable, the scientists I talked to said that they’re actually really important to the ecology of San Francisco. They keep the rat population in check. And they also kill feral cats, which can protect birds. So there’s a lot of benefits to having the coyotes around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] Yeah, I guess that’s why our streets don’t look like New York with the rats. Shout out to the coyotes. What would it look like to live in harmony with these coyotes, which as you’ve described are natural to this part of California. They’re important to our ecology. I mean, what do the people you talk with say when it comes to how we can live with these coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah, so they said the big thing is the food. Do not leave food scraps out and about. That’s probably just good behavior generally. But another issue is just to be better aware of what their behavior is. One behavior they have is called escorting. So if a parent coyote has babies in a den, they will be very protective of that space in the area around it. This has happened a lot at Bernal Hill where people will be walking their dogs and the coyotes appear to be very threatening. Their face looks threatening, their ears go back, they bare their teeth. But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. Luckily it didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:20] I mean, other than, I guess, following these warning signs, are there any other precautions that pet owners are taking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:13:27] Yeah, there’s a new dog accessory these days, which is a vest with spikes on it. Some look kind of construction worker vest orange vibes where others are more punk looking with like black vests and silver spikes. But a lot of dog owners are doing that because coyotes, you know, are not gonna want to grab something with spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:51] What has the reader response been like to your story? You’re writing about San Francisco for the New York Times, and there’s a lot of people nationally talking about San Fransisco, but how are they feeling about the San Francisco Coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:14:04] We got a great response. It was really surprising to see how into this story people were, just really captivated by these amazing photos, somuch so that I wrote a follow-up piece describing how the photos were taken. So I got to interview Loren Elliott, the photographer, about how exactly he took these photos. He went out and heard a howl at Bernal Hill and found this coyote pretty early in the morning who was just stirring and he actually spotted it and he was able to take this just wonderful photo that really captured people’s attentions where the coyote is howling and his face is framed in sunlight and right outside the shadow is a car driving past and a woman jogging just feet from him. 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So I think you’re going to find long lines, less law enforcement presence, less search and rescue capability, and less visitor centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996682/yosemite-reservation-system-2025-vehicles-camping\">Yosemite\u003c/a>, he said the quality of service is already declining: the popular High Sierra Camps are closed, and other campgrounds have had to delay their opening ahead of the busy season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Galipeau, who retired as superintendent of Channel Islands National Park in 2018, said he noticed cuts already beginning to affect service in his last few years on the job. However, he added that the recent hiring freeze and additional cuts in the proposed White House budget are unlike anything he has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Yosemite Fall is reflected in the Merced River at Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tracy Barbutes for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The poor park service is left in a catch-22,” he said. “They want to keep the parks, but they don’t have the human resources or the funding to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Neubacher and Galipeau are also members of the executive council of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a nonprofit organization made up of current and former parks employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the National Park Service said, “It’s not unusual or unique to this year for questions to come up about staffing or for the staffing needs to fluctuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Neubacher, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996198/what-you-should-know-about-visiting-national-parks-right-now\">situation on the ground\u003c/a> is much more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying everything’s fine, but I don’t think one person in the park service believes that. And all the people I talk to say it’s really traumatic and it’s in crisis mode,” Neubacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many park staffers are so demoralized on the job that they are “jumping ship” at the first opportunity.[aside postID=news_12029839 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Besides longer lines and dirtier facilities, Galipeau said reduced staffing could also endanger park visitors. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996682/yosemite-reservation-system-2025-vehicles-camping\">Yosemite\u003c/a>, he said the quality of service is already declining: the popular High Sierra Camps are closed, and other campgrounds have had to delay their opening ahead of the busy season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Galipeau, who retired as superintendent of Channel Islands National Park in 2018, said he noticed cuts already beginning to affect service in his last few years on the job. However, he added that the recent hiring freeze and additional cuts in the proposed White House budget are unlike anything he has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Yosemite Fall is reflected in the Merced River at Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tracy Barbutes for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The poor park service is left in a catch-22,” he said. “They want to keep the parks, but they don’t have the human resources or the funding to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Neubacher and Galipeau are also members of the executive council of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a nonprofit organization made up of current and former parks employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the National Park Service said, “It’s not unusual or unique to this year for questions to come up about staffing or for the staffing needs to fluctuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Neubacher, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996198/what-you-should-know-about-visiting-national-parks-right-now\">situation on the ground\u003c/a> is much more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying everything’s fine, but I don’t think one person in the park service believes that. And all the people I talk to say it’s really traumatic and it’s in crisis mode,” Neubacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many park staffers are so demoralized on the job that they are “jumping ship” at the first opportunity.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Besides longer lines and dirtier facilities, Galipeau said reduced staffing could also endanger park visitors. Fewer staffers will mean longer emergency service response times and less preventive maintenance for roads and trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a bad experience or you get lost or you get hurt or maybe there’s a crime that occurs in the park, and there’s no one for you to turn to,” Galipeau said. “All this equates to a bad visitor experience, and a bad visitor experience means you won’t go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of maintenance also spells trouble for the beginning of the peak wildfire season in California, and Neubacher said the parks are less prepared now than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only will there be fewer people to maintain vegetation and remove invasive species, but park rangers are also trained medics and firefighters. Galipeau said rangers are often sent to other regions or states to offer disaster aid; as a ranger at Everglades National Park in Florida, he was once sent to help fight fires in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those people around, how are we going to help when there’s a catastrophe? We won’t be able to,” Galipeau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the issues they anticipate, the former park service leaders said that people should still visit the parks this summer — if anything, to see for themselves how bad it is and offer their sympathies to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go there, enjoy your heritage. That’s why we set these places aside as a country,” Galipeau said. “But then if you see things that are broken, you need to go back home, you need to dial up your member of Congress or your senator and say, ‘You need to stop this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a sunny Thursday in San Francisco’s Presidio, groups of elementary school students ate lunch outside the Walt Disney Museum, people waited in line at food trucks lining the lawn and groups chatted in red low-back chairs overlooking the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Cook, who’s visiting from Maine, was spending her final day in the city sitting just north of the lawn, looking out at the bridge with a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just talking about how absolutely beautiful this place is, and that a group of people had the vision to make this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That vision appears to be threatened by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Trump\u003c/a>, who signed a sweeping executive order Wednesday night to all but eliminate certain federal agencies, including the Presidio Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trust, which Congress formed in 1996 to manage and protect the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972756/the-hidden-history-of-fort-scott-in-san-franciscos-presidio\">historic 1,500-acre park\u003c/a> that looks out on the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay, is one of four agencies named in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/\">“Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” order,\u003c/a> which calls for shrinking agencies that the administration deems “unnecessary” to “minimize government waste and abuse.” They have been ordered to eliminate their non-statutory operations “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” and reduce their statutory function to the minimum required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office in the San Francisco Federal Building, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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We have to remember there are 3,000 San Francisco residents that live in the Presidio. These are my constituents; this is deeply, deeply personal to me and to my neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mostly empty lawn of the Main Parade Ground in front of the Walt Disney Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco, on Mar. 13, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday in the park, Elizabeth Bradburn’s goldendoodle Charles was among about a dozen running off-leash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely bring the dog here and meet other dog parents and families,” she said, adding that her family often brings visiting friends down to see the bridge and eat at restaurants in the Presidio. “I think it’s a destination spot for a lot of people from outside of San Francisco, but then we who live here also use it regularly on a daily basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military’s Base Realignment and Closure process in the 1990s shuttered a number of old Army bases, including the one that used to occupy the Presidio land. It could have become a national park at the time, said Jim Wunderman, who was working for San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, but the Republican-led federal government pushed back.[aside postID=news_12027607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-184795463-1020x680.jpg']Instead, the Presidio Trust was formed, creating a public-private partnership that lessened the financial burden on the Department of the Interior and garnered bipartisan support. The agency would get federal money to help it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023708/surprising-ways-former-bay-area-military-bases-are-transforming-and-why-it-takes-so-long\">transition from an Army base\u003c/a> and work closely with the National Park Service, but it had to become financially independent by 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the trust said it “has not received regular annual appropriations from Congress since 2013,” and now relies on funds earned by leasing historic buildings it has renovated, including the Walt Disney Museum, the Bay School and many restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget in two weeks, as required by the order, but is confident that its operations are statutorily based, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio is a one-of-a-kind national park site, and all of its services and business will continue to operate as normal, welcoming visitors and serving all who live and work here,” the trust’s statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national landmark has been on Republican lawmakers’ radar as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023991/republicans-target-sfs-presidio-for-tax-cuts-immigration-crackdown\">place to recoup funds\u003c/a> for weeks, first floated in a 50-page list of potential cost reductions to pay for Trump’s immigration crackdown and tax cuts in January. The list that circulated among GOP leaders called for the Presidio Trust to return $200 million secured by Pelosi in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to make infrastructure upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list claimed that the way the transfer of the funds was requested “was not consistent with standard agency practices for selecting priority deferred maintenance projects,” but Presidio spokespeople have said the money is already in use. It’s unclear whether these funds will be affected by the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said during a press conference Thursday that it was unclear if those funds could be clawed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know,” she said. “That’s a matter of law. They are committed and when they are committed there are certain standards that are examined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the president’s targeting everyone,” Pelosi continued. “But when we wrote our bill, we wrote it, as I said, prepared for an assault. 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