CONSERVANCY COMMONS

Last week, the Parks Conservancy Board of Trustees announced its selection of Christine S. Lehnertz as the new President & CEO. Lehnertz brings extensive experience managing some of America’s most iconic national parks and a passion for making parks relevant and accessible to all communities. She begins work on May 13. Click below to read full press release.

The Parks Conservancy's Peter Hockaday, Director of Editorial Content & Strategy, sits down with incoming President & CEO Chris Lehnertz to talk about the parks, her new role, and her love for the Bay Area. Clink link to read article.

We are now week 4 into the April Wellness Challenge at Work! Incorporate wellness into your workday by completing all 25 challenges on the board in the month of April. For more information, please click below.

The Earth Month Staff Challenge is in full swing! Conservancy and NPS staff are encouraged to share their ideas and actions that help make the park more sustainable. Go directly to the website for the latest updates and a list of upcoming events.

Bike to Work Month is coming up in May and we are getting in gear already! Even if you haven’t ridden your bike since last May, or meant to and never did, this is the time to dust off the cobwebs. Sign up to receive motivating emails throughout May. With support from the Health & Wellness Committee, we are offering a bike repair day with Velo-Fix. Sign up with this link, first come-first served

Did you know there are free webinars available through Claremont EAP to help support you and your family members with life's concerns? This month's feature is learning how to approach clearing clutter and staying organized! Living with clutter can be exhausting and approaching it even more daunting. This webinar will offer specific, strategic ways to approach this task. Note: You will have to log-in to view the webinar and ask questions.

1:30 pm-3:30 pm. Crissy Field Center. Have you always wanted to incorporate more plant knowledge into your programs? Join National Park Service Ranger Fatima Colindres on a native plant identification walk on Crissy Field Marsh. Learn plants’ medicinal uses along your walk to the Crissy Field Center, where you'll enjoy tea time and hands-on fun with a strawberry hand scrub, a California lilac wash, yerba buena and yarrow tea, and enjoy fresh berry snacks. Take a moment to relax for tea time in the park. Full address and directions will be sent to you by e-mail after you sign up.

1:00 pm- 4:45 pm. Alcatraz. Re-Shaping Identity on the Rock seeks to reflect on the ways that identity can be forced onto individuals by outside groups, or be self-defined from within. Walk around the island and learn about its lesser known historical occupants before ending with a visit to Future IDs, a special art exhibit made by formerly and currently incarcerated men and women. Educators are invited to join in and learn how to incorporate it into their own programming. Highly recommended for educators working with students in 8th grade, high school and up!

2 pm - 4:30 pm. Crissy Field Center. Join Nursery Program staff for a lecture about our recent research on seed collection and anthropogenic climate change with UC Berkeley students and faculty. This event is appropriate for land managers, park staff, and interns who perform restoration and ecological activities. Please forward this email to affiliate personnel whom you believe would benefit from this discourse. Here’s the link to our internal portal calendar to register for the event: