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by Aaron Freifeld
You might think that 5-year-old Rosa might be hesitant to return to her teacher after sneaking off to smear gray mud all over her face and arms. Instead, she runs right up to teacher Chris Giorni with a smile on her round, blackened face....
Published March 08, 2010
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by Aaron Freifeld
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be hosting two public workshops in March to explain and hear comments on a 50-year plan for restoring the San Francisco and Suisun Bays, which have lost 90 percent of their wetlands. Find out how you can take part in the restoration...
Published February 26, 2010
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by Donna Whitmarsh
Since 1999, students at Pinole Valley High School's Environmental Studies Academy have been taking their college prep program through an environmental lens and getting a crash course in community action along the way. They're partnering with other groups to provide environmental services that affect their whole human and biotic community.
Published February 15, 2010
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by Kris Vann
In just one conversation with Reed Holderman, it's easy to tell that he loves his job. And why shouldn't he? As executive director of the Sempervirens Fund, he gets to help save landscapes for generations to come. With two recent land deals, the fund has come a step closer to its goal of connecting all the major parks on the Santa Cruz coast.
Published February 02, 2010
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by Donna Whitmarsh
It's an old story. Another species that once flourished is being pushed to extinction by modern human encroachment. The callippe silverspot has been gradually pushed into a few remaining islands of habitat, including San Bruno Mountain south of San Francisco. Critics say a long-simmering development proposal threatens that habitat.
Published January 25, 2010
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by Donna Whitmarsh
The collapse of Central California Coast coho salmon population is imminent, according to a report by the National Marine Fisheries in late December 2009. Numbers of returning coho may be too low to support a viable population.
Published January 07, 2010
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by Donna Whitmarsh
An ongoing controversy over the displacement of burrowing owls in Antioch brought out 40 local residents and others from across the Bay Area on Sunday for a march to protest the eviction and push for better protections for the owls across the state.
Published January 06, 2010
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by Donna Whitmarsh
Scott and Heather Artis of Antioch have adopted a local community of burrowing owls as their own stewardship project and were looking forward to this year's nesting season, but in November 2009 the state handed the owls an eviction notice, to make way for a housing development...
Published December 21, 2009
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by Kris Vann
Winter might not be beach season for most of us, but for big wave surfers, now is the time to be out on the water. What makes winter the time for big waves? And why do a few spots, like Mavericks, get such tall waves?
Published December 18, 2009
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Reviewed by Alan Kaplan
Published December 11, 2009
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by Maria Vierra
After two years of negotiation with the East Bay Regional Park District, Chevron has agreed to allow access to two parcels of land on Chevron property that moves a step closer to extending the San Francisco Bay Trail along Richmond's Point San Pablo Peninsula. But there's a lot more work to do...
Published December 09, 2009
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by Kate Brittain
Dig out the binoculars; it's clear skies ahead. In the Bay Area, the winter months are your best bet for a clear view of, well, anything you're trying to spy--be it bird, Big Dipper or sweeping vista.
Published December 04, 2009
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by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
After three years of drought, the forecast for a wet El Nino winter this year is welcome news indeed. Unless you're an oak or tanoak tree. Researchers fear a wet year could mean an epidemic spread of sudden oak death (SOD). But a new preventive treatment and easy precautions could help contain the disease.
Published December 02, 2009
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by Maria Vierra
On Veteran's Day, a day off when lots of kids might be home watching TV or playing video games, fourth and fifth graders from Bahia Vista Elementary School in San Rafael's Canal district guided parents and friends through the four distinct bird habitats of Pickleweed Park and explained what they had learned about each habitat and its particular bird life.
Published November 20, 2009
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by Donna Whitmarsh
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently won an award form the National Park Trust (really), apparently for not closing the parks after all. But it's the hundreds of volunteers across the region who are helping remaining staff keep things together, while they also fight for a permanent funding solution.
Published November 19, 2009
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reviewed by Matthew Bettelheim
On the heels of Santa Clara County's 2007 breeding bird atlas comes Contra Costa County's companion for north Bay Area birders. This year the Mount Diablo Audubon Society released the Breeding Bird Atlas of Contra Costa County.
Published October 29, 2009
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by Donna Whitmarsh
Yes, the silver and pink flashers are working their way up Marin County creeks to spawn. Paola Bouley, conservation director for the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN), reported seeing coho spawners on October 21, 2009. The group is beginning its tenth year of naturalist-led creek walks on what's now our state's largest remaining coho run, so now's the time to see the salmon migrating upstream.
Published October 28, 2009
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by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
At 2,463 feet, Sonoma Mountain is not even close to our region's tallest peak. But its broad slopes hold a remarkable diversity of iconic Bay Area landscapes, from redwood groves to oak woodlands to ranchlands and vineyards. And at the summit, the views sweep from ocean to valley. With new acquisitions and trails in the works, public access to those views keeps getting better and better.
Published October 22, 2009
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by David Carroll
2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, the Marin-based organization that tracks the movements of birds of prey over the Marin Headlands. Since 1984, more than 1,500 volunteers have logged 40,000 hours alongside staff and scientists to monitor raptors along one of West Coast's most trafficked migratory routes.
Published October 19, 2009
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by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
Martinez's downtown beavers first captured the hearts of local residents, who last year derailed plans to remove the animals due to flood worries. Now, the beavers are busy making homes for other critters, including mink, otters, birds. And, perhaps, salmon...
Published October 05, 2009
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