A yellow-rumped warbler at Ocean Beach. Photo by David Cruz/Natures Lantern.

Urban Nature

A petition, an oil boom and a Douglas fir

by Alison Hawkes

December 17, 2012

Wild Emergency Services, an animal aid group, has started a petition to change way California Fish & Game deals with mountain lions in public places after Half Moon Bay cougar cub shooting. [San Francisco Examiner]
As state prepares for new oil boom, California is drafting its first regulations around oil and gas fracking. [KQED Quest]
What environmental laws will protect California from oil and gas fracking? [KQED Quest]
Centerpiece of new Exploratorium will be 250-yr-old Douglas fir blown down in West Marin a decade ago. [Marin Independent Journal]

About the Author

Alison Hawkes was a Bay Nature editor from 2011-2017. Before Bay Nature she worked in journalism for more than a decade as a former newspaper reporter turned radio producer turned web editor with each rendition bringing her closer to her dream of covering environmental issues. She co-founded Way Out West, a site dedicated to covering Bay Area environmental news.