Jul-Sep 2005
Out of the Flames
July 01, 2005 by Bay Nature
On October 3, 1995, a wildfire erupted on Mount Vision at Point Reyes National Seashore. Before the flames were extinguished …
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Beachfront Property
July 01, 2006 by Christine Petersen
San Francisco’s Fort Funston is perhaps best known for dogs and hang gliders, but its cliffs also host a thriving coastal bank swallow colony.
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Betting on Point Molate
July 01, 2006 by Chiori Santiago
With stunning views of the Bay and Marin, Richmond’s Point Molate has seen a lot of changes: It’s been a shrimp camp, a huge winery, and a Navy fuel depot. Now the site of a controversial casino proposal, this modest point of land is home to diverse wildlife and some of the East Bay’s last native coastal prairie.
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Don’t Call Them Bugs
July 01, 2006 by Cindy Spring
Edward Ross has visited every continent except Antarctica in pursuit of his passion for studying, collecting, dissecting, classifying, naming, photographing, …
Invasive Weeds Awareness Week
July 01, 2006 by Christine Sculati
One of the challenges faced by rare native plants like the buckwheat is the spread of invasive nonnative plants. July …
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Legacy of Karl Linn
July 01, 2006 by Christine Sculati
”Karl Linn spent his lifetime bringing people together in community, in an urban setting, in nature,” says Carole Bennett-Simmons, project …
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Proposed Development Near Livermore
July 01, 2006 by Christine Sculati
The city of Livermore might be most famous for its national laboratory, but native plant enthusiasts and biodiversity advocates will …
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Rediscovery of Mount Diablo Buckwheat
July 01, 2006 by Christine Sculati
It’s rare that a species gets taken off what seems an ever-growing list of extinctions, but that’s exactly what happened …
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Tagging Marine Animals
July 01, 2006 by Christine Sculati
The tools scientists use to study pelagic marine life have come a long way. Now, with the use of advanced …
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From an Entomologist’s Backyard
July 01, 2006 by Edward S. Ross
The sticky monkey flower, common on sunny Bay Area hillsides, hosts an array of insect visitors. Edward Ross’s intimate photos of these visits are but a small sample of the thousands he’s taken over six decades of studying insects near and far.
Letter from the Publisher
July 01, 2006 by David Loeb
When I moved out to San Francisco from New York City in late 1973, it was mostly for love. But …
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A Landscape Renewed by Fire
July 01, 2005 by Geoffrey Coffey
Enter the woods on Inverness Ridge and pause for a moment to listen. Natural history weaves itself into stories for …
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Fire on the Ridge
July 01, 2005 by Sim Van der Ryn
On a clear January day in 2005, I took a walk up from my house on the east slope of …
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Getting Burned
July 01, 2005 by Geoffrey Coffey
Fire dwells deep in the human psyche. It is among the oldest of words, the most elemental of tools, and …
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Out of the Flames
July 01, 2005 by Bay Nature Staff
On October 3, 1995, a wildfire erupted on Mount Vision at Point Reyes National Seashore. Before the flames were extinguished a week later, 12,000 acres of this popular park had been scorched, and 45 nearby homes burned to the ground. A decade later, we return to Point Reyes for a lesson in local fire ecology to see how the landscape—and the community—were reshaped and renewed by the blaze.
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Ubiquitous Eucalyptus
July 01, 2006 by Bill O’Brien
Some folks love their scent and shade; others resent them for crowding out natives; most of us know they came from Australia and found a niche here. But few know that the East Bay’s eucalypts owe their presence to one entrepreneur who thought the trees would make him rich. They didn’t, but now, love them or hate them, the trees are here to stay. Fortunately, some animals have profited from Mr. Havens’s mistake.
