The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge might not look like much. But its industrial surroundings hide a biodiversity gem.
Kids & Nature
The San Francisco Bay Area has an extensive array of programming to support little people with big curiosities.
The Randall Museum Closes for a Makeover, and the Animals Get a Big Adventure
July 1, 2015 •
On moving day at the remodeling Randall Museum, beloved animals leave their home for the next year.
To Save a Park in San Francisco’s Bayview, Advocates Turn to Citizen Science “With a Mission”
June 18, 2015 •
Development could wipe out one of the Bayview’s few open space areas. Nature in the City hopes knowing more about what lives there can stop the construction.
To Get Kids to the Wilderness, Oakland Group Trains and Equips Trip Leaders
December 15, 2014 •
Oakland-based Bay Area Wilderness Training tries to provide teachers and trip leaders with everything they need — from leadership skills to equipment — to get kids out in nature.
It’s Fun! It’s Science! It’s a Bioblitz!
July 10, 2014 •
On the last weekend of March, 9,000 people armed with binoculars, butterfly nets, cameras, and smartphones, spread out over an archipelago of national park lands from Point Reyes in Marin County to Mori Point on the San Mateo coast. Their … Read more
First Blue Heron Cam in California Set up at Stow Lake
April 18, 2014 •
A blue heron cam will be watching the majestic birds nest on Stow Lake this year to aid in research and public education.
San Francisco Students Display Their Scientific Flair at Annual Science Fair
February 10, 2014 •
More than 200 science projects from 34 San Francisco schools will be on display at the Randall Museum in Corona Heights for the next two weeks as part of the San Francisco Middle School Science Fair.
Helping Restore Hamilton Wetland from the Ground Up
January 24, 2014 •
Several thousand of the 60,000 plants intended to ultimately go into the ground at the Hamilton Wetland restoration site will arrive there via the hands of young Marin residents as part of the Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed Program.
A Child’s Book of Habitat
January 2, 2014 •
Wildlife biologist and environmental science writer (and former Bay Nature contributing editor) Matthew Bettelheim temporarily switched out of his academic mode to write a children’s book that is coming out this week. Sardis and Stamm takes young readers on a … Read more
Before the Annual Fungus Fair, It’s All About Finding the Right Mushroom
December 23, 2013 •
Served in French dishes under the alias pom pom du blanc, lion’s mane has a texture and taste resembling lobster or shrimp. Chris Schoenstein, a lifelong enthusiast and member of the Mycological Society of San Francisco, has only seen one 2 or 3 times. But that, if you’re a mushroom hunter, is the hook that keeps you coming back to an event like the Wunderlich Foray.