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Altamont Wind Resources Area
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
As migrating shorebirds pass through Northern California, environmentalists hope they don’t meet the same fate as the hundreds of raptors …
Issue Content
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California Wildlands Grassroots Fund
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
For small, locally based environmental groups, finding the resources to engage governmental agencies and conduct compelling scientific research can be …
Contra Costa Transit Vote
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
Have you noticed that it takes longer to get to the mountain these days? Traffic congestion has become a big …
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Marin Development on San Geronimo Blocked
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
In another recent victory for wetland habitat, Marin Superior Court Judge Lynn Duryee ruled in early November that the County …
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MDIA Diablo Map Update
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
Also recently updated is the Trail Map of Mount Diablo State Park, published by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association (MDIA). …
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Napa County Breeding Birds Atlas
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
How many people does it take to figure out the number of bird species that breed in Napa County? For …
Rush Ranch and China Camp Become a NERR
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
Rush Ranch Open Space features the largest intact brackish tidal marsh in the San Francisco Estuary. That’s why it has …
Sonoma Baylands, SLT, and Miwoks
January 01, 2004 by Leah Messinger
Another area along the North Bay shoreline has been in the news lately: the 1,679 acres of the Sonoma Baylands …
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Finding the Fungi
January 01, 2004 by Matthew Bettelheim
A good rain sends all manner of mushrooms pushing their way up from underground. Here are some of the places around the Bay Area where you can admire the beauty and diversity of these charismatic fungi.
Letter from the Publisher
January 01, 2004 by David Loeb
I wonder if the rest of you will be as surprised as I was to learn that the area around …
Why do mushrooms come in so many shapes and colors?
January 01, 2004 by Dr. Dennis E. Desjardin
In technical terms, mushrooms are the charismatic sexual reproductive structures of fungal individuals whose main body (fine, cobweb-like filaments called …
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Out in the Tules
January 01, 2004 by Joe Eaton
The rounded hills by the Bay are the first thing that catch your eye at Coyote Hills Regional Park. But the brackish and freshwater marshes behind the hills have a charm of their own. Remnant of a once-extensive mix of tidal and freshwater wetlands that sustained a thriving Ohlone community for several thousand years, the marsh is now home to marsh wrens, muskrats, and one of the East Bay’s few remaining patches of tules.
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Where the Elk and the Antelope Played
January 01, 2004 by David Rains Wallace
A million years ago, in a climate much like ours today, the land around an ancestral bay teemed with large animals: mammoths and saber-tooth cats; bears, horses, and peccaries. By 300 years ago, the mammoths were gone, but grizzlies, elk, condor, and pronghorn were abundant.European settlers wiped out many of those animals, but programs to reintroduce some of them are now under way. Which raises the question: What should a healthy, native megafauna look like now?
