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NewsLinks: Bay Area Hotspot: El Polín Spring

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Bay Area Hotspot: El Polín Spring

Byline

David Anderson, Golden Gate Audubon Society

URL

http://www.presidio.gov/about/Pages/bay-area-hotspot-el-polin-spring.aspx

Article Date

12/1/2012

Summary Text

Situated at the southern end of Mac-Arthur Avenue in San Francisco’s Presidio, El Polín Spring and the Upper Tennessee Hollow have recently been restored.

The Presidio Trust