Mount Burdell Loop
September 14, 2012 by Sue Rosenthal
Like Tiburon's Ring Mountain and Limantour Beach at Point Reyes, Novato's Mount Burdell Open Space Preserve escaped death by housing …
About Sue Rosenthal
Sue Rosenthal is Bay Nature's contributing editor.
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Blitzers Search for SOD
March 08, 2012 by Sue Rosenthal
A project out of UC Berkeley recruits citizen scientists to help track the spread of sudden oak death. They do it every spring, and the more people take part, the better the chance we can protect precious oaks from a deadly pathogen.
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Book Review: Walkabout Northern California: Hiking Inn to Inn
October 01, 2011 by Sue Rosenthal
By Tom Courtney, Wilderness Press, 2011, 234 pages, $16.95.
Imagine hiking from inn to inn carrying only a day pack, …
Stargazing in the SF Bay Area
September 26, 2011 by Sue Rosenthal
Nature doesn’t disappear when the sun goes down–there’s a whole universe out there to explore after dark! If you don’t have your own telescope, you can look at stars, planets, and other astronomical objects through big telescopes at observatories and smaller, portable telescopes at star parties or see them in dazzling indoor planetarium shows. People who share their love of astronomy and stargazing with others are friendly by nature.
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Hidden Life in the Sand
July 01, 2011 by Sue Rosenthal
It turns out the sand at your local beach is not as simple as it seems–it’s full of little creatures. From sand crabs and beach hoppers to tiny water bears, there really is a world in a grain of sand, or at least between the grains of sand.
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Early Bloomers
January 01, 2011 by Sue Rosenthal
While transplanted New Englanders may complain about the Bay Area’s inconspicuous seasons, true Californians prefer February flowers to snow shovels. What we lack in extremes we make up in subtle and unexpected beauty. On your winter walks, keep an eye out for the early bloomers, plants that brave winter weather for an early shot at pollination.
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Book Review: California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names
October 01, 2010 by Sue Rosenthal
by Erwin G. Gudde (revised by William Bright), UC Press, 2010, 496 pages, $27.50
What’s in a name? Sometimes rich …
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Book Review: A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California
October 01, 2010 by Sue Rosenthal
This book is an unmatched picture–in paintings and words– of what California might have been like before the arrival of Europeans.
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The Presidio’s Miracle Manzanita
April 01, 2010 by Sue Rosenthal
A construction site along one of San Francisco’s busiest thoroughfares hardly seems like a good spot to find one of our region’s rarest plants. But that’s just where a passing biologist saw a manzanita thought extinct for decades. And now a whole lot of people are trying to make sure this lone survivor isn’t the last Franciscan manzanita.
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Resources for Learning More About the Delta
April 01, 2010 by Sue Rosenthal
Are you interested in learning more about the Delta or in exploring it further? Here’s an extensive–but by no means complete–listing of resources on the Delta’s ecosystem, recreational opportunities in the Delta, organizations that are working to restore and protect it, and the political processes that are shaping its future.
