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July 01, 2004 by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
A little standing water is all it takes for mosquitoes to get going, so it’s no wonder they’ve been making evolutionary hay for over 30 million years—and acting as efficient disease transporters along the way, even here in the temperate Bay Area.
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July 01, 2004 by Christine Sculati
This summer, a new exhibit in San Francisco’s Presidio celebrates one of the world’s most diverse urban bird habitats. From …
July 01, 2004 by Christine Sculati
Where can you find more than 80,000 acres of wildlands with hundreds of miles of trails only 36 miles from …
July 01, 2004 by Christine Sculati
At the sight of a diving juvenile Cooper’s hawk, “the squirrel reared back and opened its mouth with its paws …
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July 01, 2004 by Christine Sculati
Although solidly rooted in California’s natural and cultural history, our native oaks are disappearing at an alarming rate. The loss …
July 01, 2004 by Christine Sculati
Hikers and equestrians can find a new swath of accessible open space in the bucolic eastern foothills of the Santa …
July 01, 2004 by Christine Sculati
Purple needlegrass may soon gain recognition as one of California’s official state symbols, like the golden poppy, our state flower …
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July 01, 2004 by Sue Rosenthal
The classic image of a redwood forest is one of stately tall trees, dense shade, and lots of green. The …
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July 01, 2004 by Gordy Slack
The hills above Oakland once held some of the largest redwoods ever seen, one estimated at 31 feet in diameter. Ten million years ago, such trees towered over much of North America. Nothing in this long history prepared them for the coming of men, armed with axes and saws, who felled all of Oakland’s redwoods in just 15 years. But even second- and third-growth redwood forests hold their charms, not to mention the subtle suggestions of the forests they can once again become. And you don’t have to go too far from downtown Oakland to find them.
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July 01, 2004 by Bill O’Brien
What do you get when you scoop up 250,000 cubic yards of muck from the Petaluma River? Prime shorebird habitat, of course. Unlikely as it may seem, Shollenberger Park is a place where birders have spotted 150 bird species, from nesting avocets and stilts to harriers and egrets. And a new addition to the park will make it one of the largest publicly accessible stretches of wetlands in the Bay Area.
July 01, 2004 by Cindy Spring
Imagine a landmark so prominent that anyone looking south from San Francisco or north from San Jose could spot it. …
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