Get a sneak peek into plans to restore important native habitat and help envision a healthy future for the City’s ocean shoreline.
Join Nature in the City and SF Recreation & Parks on a free walk exploring the unique and sensitive habitat of the Ocean Beach dunes. We’ll learn about efforts to revegetate the dunes with native plants to create a more natural, beautiful, and healthy habitat.
Walk Leaders: Brian Stokle and Helen Doyle
Brian Stokle is an urban planner with SF Recreation & Parks. He works on complex, multi-jurisdictional projects, such as the JFK Promenade and the Ocean Beach Master Plan, designing streetscapes on park edges to ensure people can easily reach parks and open space. As an undergraduate he majored in geology and history at UC Davis and he has a masters of urban planning from Columbia University.
Helen J. Doyle is a California Naturalist and educator dedicated to the environment, public education, and equity and justice. A biologist by training, she shares her love of nature as a docent and writer. She volunteers with several Bay Area organizations, such as Año Nuevo State Park, the Gardens of Golden Gate Park, the Alcatraz Historic Gardens, and the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. Helen serves on the advisory council of Nature in the City, a San Francisco nonprofit that connects people to nature, and represents Nature in the City on the Reimagining San Francisco steering committee and the SF Crosstown Trails coalition.