Book Review: Tending the Wild
October 01, 2007 by Sue Rosenthal
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources, by M. Kat Anderson, University of California …
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First Encounters
January 01, 2006 by David Rains Wallace
When European explorers and naturalists began coming to California a few centuries ago, most sailed right past the fog-shrouded Golden Gate. But those few who did stop here, including the botanist-poet who first described the California poppy, left tantalizing clues to the world they saw before the Gold Rush transformed the Bay Area from backwater to boomtown.
Vasco Regional Preserve Open for Public Tours
January 01, 2006 by Matthew Bettelheim
At Vasco Regional Preserve, stone balls the size of dinosaur eggs litter the landscape, the winds burrow into stone, and …
Letter from the Publisher
January 01, 2006 by David Loeb
As we were considering articles for our fifth anniversary issue, which you are now holding in your hands, David Rains …
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Stone-Boiled Coffee and Other Old Ways
January 01, 2006 by Cindy Spring
We all have moments on hikes when we dream of being able to live directly off the land, plants, and …
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Wild Gardens
January 01, 2006 by Beverly R. Ortiz
A visit to remnant native grasslands in Richmond or diverse oak woodlands in eastern Alameda County gives a taste of our region’s native habitats. But few of us are aware of an important element that helped shape those habitats: the regimes of burning, pruning, and digging carried out over centuries by the East Bay’s indigenous inhabitants, some of whom still carry on those traditions today.
Natural World Museum Exhibit: Anima Mundi
October 01, 2004 by Christine Sculati
In its debut exhibit, the San Francisco-based nonprofit Natural World Museum (www.naturalworldmuseum.org) presents an exploration of ancient and contemporary environmental …
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 …
Book Review: Before California
October 01, 2003 by Tracy Held
by Brian Fagan, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003, 288 pages, $24.95 (www.altamirapress.com).
In this new book archaeologist Brian Fagan …
