The city of Berkeley plans to purchase a Fourth Street parking lot and transfer the property to the nonprofit Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, as part of a recent settlement agreement over the long-contested shellmound site in West Berkeley.
Policy
Mud-Starved Wetlands Get a Meal, At Last
February 29, 2024 •
With Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, the Bay’s wetlands are finally getting some precious muck. Why have we been dumping it offshore?
The Hills Have Ears
February 22, 2024 •
New radio towers are bringing a sea-change in wildlife tracking.
Congress Expanded a Climate Program for Farmers. Now, Where Are the Applicants?
January 11, 2024 •
“We’re in a place where we have more money than we have applications,” says Brandon Bates, assistant state conservationist with NRCS. And the agency really doesn’t want to have tosend this money back to Congress.
A Last Best Hope for Coho in the Russian River
January 9, 2024 •
Now equipped with $8.4 million in federal money, conservationists are aiming to bring back the watershed’s salmonids
The Mystery of the Los Gatos Beavers
January 3, 2024 •
Years before beavers famously returned to Martinez, Los Gatos locals were spotting them in their creeks and ponds. How they got there, though—that’s a bit of a rabbit hole.
Oakland’s Urban Tree Dreams Get (Partially) Funded
December 21, 2023 •
The city’s draft urban forest plan has drawn more than 800 comments—many clamoring for more native trees.
Now We Are Asking Nature to Solve the Problems We Created
October 5, 2023 •
What’s a nature-based solution? An explainer.
How Dirt Biking Shaped the Bay Area—and the West
September 28, 2023 •
Sixty years ago, Bay Area bikers discovered the Panoche Hills, southeast of San José. Public lands management changed forever.
Unburying the Creek Beneath It, A School Becomes a Steward
September 21, 2023 •
A Sausalito school gets $3 million to repair a riparian corridor, and help students reconnect with nature.