Last week, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz travelled to California to highlight how funding from the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program (ORLP) is assisting cities across America, including San Francisco, to build new urban parks and trails and improve the infrastructure of already existing parks.
This trip serves as more proof of the Department of the Interior’s dedication to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background or zip code, has access to the outdoors.
On Friday, Assistant Secretary Estenoz announced a $61.1 million investment under the ORLP programme in 2022 for communities across the country.
He was joined by local, state, and neighbourhood officials.
Through cooperative and locally driven conservation, these initiatives advance the objectives of the America the Beautiful programme to advance equity, biodiversity, and climate change.
The leaders went on a tour of Buchanan Street Mall, which will get a roughly $4 million grant to create new amenities and activities that the community has requested, such as a community garden and open grass, play areas, and picnic places.
A continuous walking/jogging path will now run through the park, connecting the five blocks that make up Buchanan Street Mall.
The group also went to Bay View Park, a project that was just finished with ORLP funding and was recognised earlier this year. Bay View funding was used to rehabilitate the park, increase neighbourhood pedestrian access points, and install new exercise equipment stations, picnic tables, and play structures.
Established in 2014, the ORLP initiative enables urban communities to develop new outdoor recreation areas, revitalise current parks, and foster linkages between people and the outdoors in places that are underserved economically.
In order to give residents of the urban Bay Area and tourists from around the world more opportunities to experience national parks, Assistant Secretary Estenoz celebrated the opening of the Presidio Tunnel Tops on Saturday along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and local leaders from San Francisco.
The Presidio Tunnel Tops add 14 acres to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area over the tops of the Presidio Parkway tunnels. She spoke and emphasised the Biden-Harris administration’s dedication to guaranteeing that all communities have access to nature.
Last week, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz travelled to California to highlight how funding from the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program (ORLP) is assisting cities across America, including San Francisco, to build new urban parks and trails and improve the infrastructure of already existing parks.
This trip serves as more proof of the Department of the Interior’s dedication to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background or zip code, has access to the outdoors.
On Friday, Assistant Secretary Estenoz announced a $61.1 million investment under the ORLP programme in 2022 for communities across the country.
He was joined by local, state, and neighbourhood officials.
Through cooperative and locally driven conservation, these initiatives advance the objectives of the America the Beautiful programme to advance equity, biodiversity, and climate change.
The leaders went on a tour of Buchanan Street Mall, which will get a roughly $4 million grant to create new amenities and activities that the community has requested, such as a community garden and open grass, play areas, and picnic places.
A continuous walking/jogging path will now run through the park, connecting the five blocks that make up Buchanan Street Mall.
The group also went to Bay View Park, a project that was just finished with ORLP funding and was recognised earlier this year.
Bay View funding was used to rehabilitate the park, increase neighbourhood pedestrian access points, and install new exercise equipment stations, picnic tables, and play structures.
Established in 2014, the ORLP initiative enables urban communities to develop new outdoor recreation areas, revitalise current parks, and foster linkages between people and the outdoors in places that are underserved economically.
In order to give residents of the urban Bay Area and tourists from around the world more opportunities to experience national parks, Assistant Secretary Estenoz celebrated the opening of the Presidio Tunnel Tops on Saturday along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and local leaders from San Francisco.
The Presidio Tunnel Tops add 14 acres to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area over the tops of the Presidio Parkway tunnels.
She spoke and emphasised the Biden-Harris administration’s dedication to guaranteeing that all communities have access to nature.