The Dream Given by You
Welcoming the Coho Salmon Back to West Marin

by Jules Evens

The return of endangered coho salmon to their ancestral spawning grounds in this west Marin watershed is an essential component of the connective tissue that holds a fragmented ecosystem together. Greeting the salmon tethers us to the landscape's seasonal rhythms and reawakens a lineage that goes back to the first inhabitants of this place.

From the Oct-Dec 2001 issue
Published October 01, 2001
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The Vale of Tesla
Natural Beauty/Human Designs

by S.W. Edwards

Nestled in the hills southeast of Livermore, at the border between the San Joaquin Valley and the Bay Area, the old Tesla Mine townsite in Corral Hollow sustains a vibrant mix of inner south coast range plants and animals along with the traces of a rich human history. But a state proposal to create an off-road vehicle park in the hollow threatens to reopen old scars on this tranquil landscape.

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Published October 01, 2001
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Resurvey of San Pablo Bay

by Robin Grossinger snd Christine Reed

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The Changing Nature of Joaquin Miller Park
A Poet's Refuge in Oakland

by Rex Burress

Over 100 years ago, poet Joaquin Miller found a refuge in the Oakland hills. Today, thousands of residents from the cities below are doing likewise in the park that bears his name.

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Letter from the Publisher

by David Loeb

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How have humans influenced wild animal behavior?

by Michael Ellis

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Ear to the Ground
News from the conservation community and the natural world

by Marilyn Smulyan

Birds, birds, everywhere, tule elk rutting season, mushrooms and other fungi, Sudden Oak Death update, "Nature & the City", and more...

From the Oct-Dec 2001 issue