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July 01, 2010 by Kathleen M. Wong
With millions of people and millions of acres of open space, the Bay Area is a lively, and sometimes uneasy, blend of wild and urban. In the East Bay, dozens of rare species — from birds along the Bay to wildflowers in the hills — survive against the odds thanks in part to the East Bay Regional Park District, whose staff does everything from creating nesting islands to clearing trees for the sake of imperiled plants and animals.
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April 01, 2010 by Sue Rosenthal
A construction site along one of San Francisco’s busiest thoroughfares hardly seems like a good spot to find one of our region’s rarest plants. But that’s just where a passing biologist saw a manzanita thought extinct for decades. And now a whole lot of people are trying to make sure this lone survivor isn’t the last Franciscan manzanita.
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January 01, 2010 by Todd Gilens
Might the streets we travel have once been migratory corridors for other species, now displaced and threatened by our urban ways? Did butterflies pass by this way, looking for mates, or did salmon swim up a creek long since buried? Could we once again share this landscape and these corridors with other species, if our own daily migrations became more communal–a few buses in place of a swarm of cars, a single train where SUVs now reign?
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January 01, 2009 by Aleta George
December 31, 2008, marked the end of the 2008 Endangered Species Big Year in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area …
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December 31, 2008 by Laura Hautala
What brings together professionals and amateur naturalists, butterfly specialists and evolutionary biologists, children and adults, all in the name of endangered species? Try the Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s Big Year for Endangered Species.
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July 01, 2008 by Sarah Sweedler
For better and worse, the upper reach of the Pilarcitos watershed on the Peninsula was dammed to supply water to San Francisco in the 1860s. The surrounding land has been protected and kept off-limits to the public ever since, allowing rare species to thrive here. That includes the marbled murrelet, which nests only in old-growth conifers, such as Douglas fir. But the dam and other impacts also leave less water in the creek for oceangoing steelhead. Now, a diverse group of stakeholders has come together to chart a brighter future for the fish and the creek.
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January 01, 2008 by David Carroll
From Mori Point in Pacifica to Lands End in San Francisco and all the way up to Tomales Bay, the …
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October 01, 2007 by Aleta George
At the northern edge of San Pablo Bay, a salt marsh harvest mouse hides beneath the protective cover of a …
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October 01, 2007 by Aleta George
To us, the San Bruno elfin butterfly, with its one-inch wingspan, seems small, but to the ants that protected it …
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October 01, 2007 by Carolyn J. Strange
Contrary to common notions of autumn as a season of dying back, our fall rains often herald new beginnings. That’s …
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