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May 23, 1946 (age 78)[ 2] Berkeley, California, US. Alma mater. University of California, Berkeley. Occupation (s) Explorer, adventurer, composer. The new strait uncovered by a retreating ice shelf, taken from Warming Island. Dennis Schmitt (born May 23, 1946) is an American veteran explorer, adventurer and composer.
Operated by. East Bay Regional Park District. Charles Lee Tilden Regional Park, also known as Tilden Park or Tilden, [tɪldɨn], is a 2,079-acre (841 ha) regional park in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It is between the Berkeley Hills and San Pablo Ridge. Its main entrance is near Kensington, Berkeley, and Richmond.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of notable people that were born in, or who have lived in, Berkeley, California. Located in the San Francisco Bay area and near Oakland, it ...
Wilderness Press is a publisher of outdoor guidebooks and maps that was founded in Berkeley, California in 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its first publication was Sierra North (1967/2005). [ 3 ] Reissued in 2005, this is considered the authoritative guidebook for hikers and backpackers in the Northern Sierra Nevada .
Adventure Playground is an urban park and adventure playground in Berkeley, California, located at the Berkeley Marina. The park opened in 1979 based on the ideas of Danish architect Carl Theodor Sørensen , who had made use of scrap junkyards for playgrounds when Copenhagen was under occupation during World War II.
Richard Louis Proenneke (/ ˈ p r ɛ n ə k iː /; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
Charles G. Post is an American ecologist, documentary filmmaker, photographer [1][2][3] and podcaster. [4][5][6][7] He is best known for his photography work and as producer and film director of Sky Migrations, [8][9] Return of the Desert Bighorn and Golden. [10] His photography and writing work have appeared on National Geographic, Outside ...
George Marshall, James Marshall, Ruth (Putey) Marshall. Robert Marshall (January 2, 1901 – November 11, 1939) was an American forester, writer and wilderness activist who is best remembered as the person who spearheaded the 1935 founding of the Wilderness Society in the United States. Marshall developed a love for the outdoors as a young child.