With Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, the Bay’s wetlands are finally getting some precious muck. Why have we been dumping it offshore?
The San Francisco Bay Area is bejeweled with hundreds of parks and open space preserves as well as a rich set of laws and policies meant to ensure the survival of vulnerable species and ecosystems. Real people made this happen through a dedicated call to stewardship.
At Coyote Hills, 300 Acres of Farmland are Transforming
More than 100 different species of birds—from American bitterns to marsh wrens—have visited the native salt grass and sprawling, stubby pickleweed in the newly constructed seasonal wetland.
The Hills Have Ears
New radio towers are bringing a sea-change in wildlife tracking.
Winter 2024 Editor’s Letter: Nature’s Superpower
“One of nature’s great powers is to provide the metaphors we seek, and in this issue of Bay Nature, I see healing everywhere,” writes editor-in-chief Victoria Schlesinger.
An Interview with Amy Tan: Wild Birds and Backyard Journals
Bestselling author Amy Tan has filled journals with anecdotes, observations, and drawings of backyard birds.
At Taylor Mountain, a View Worth the Climb
The trail passes in and out of shadowed forests, and leads to a peak overlooking Santa Rosa, the Coast Range, and the Mayacamas mountains.
Make Way for Eelgrass: Dilapidated, Unsafe, Toxic Old Pier to Be Removed at Last
East Bay Regional Park District is primed to remove the creosote-treated wood of Richmond’s Ferry Point Pier this year after two years of delays.
Congress Expanded a Climate Program for Farmers. Now, Where Are the Applicants?
“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
Now equipped with $8.4 million in federal money, conservationists are aiming to bring back the watershed’s salmonids
Believing in the Power of Beavers
California’s beavers have been by turns hunted, protected, and neglected—even parachuted away to distant forests. Today, the embattled rodent is finding new appreciation for its ecological work.