"The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker of Rare Wildflowers" This is a photo that botanists in the 20th century never thought would exist. Mount Diablo buckwheat was believed extinct after 1930 before its spectacular rediscovery on the mountain in 2005. In 2016 came an even more startling find: millions of seedlings on a slope in Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. David Rains Wallace tells the story in the July-September issue of Bay Nature. | Photo by Lech Naumovich, Golden Hour Restoration Institute
Nature News
Ask the Naturalist: How Does a Spider Make Silk?
How spiders create protein-rich liquid and turn it into silk.
Hunt for San Francisco Bay Shark Killer Zeroes in on a Suspect
A protozoan pathogen appears to have killed thousands of sharks, rays and fish in the San Francisco Bay this spring.
Ask the Naturalist: Can Hummingbirds Taste Their Food?
What does a hummingbird taste in a flower?
Meet the Scientist Who Has Discovered More Than 1,000 Species of Sea Slug
Terry Gosliner, a curator at the California Academy of Sciences, looks through nudibranchs to see the world.
Summer Algal Bloom and Aquatic Grass Growth Forces Boats Off the Water in Berkeley’s Aquatic Park
A yellow-brown blanket covers the Berkeley Aquatic Park lagoon.
Ask The Naturalist: Why Are There Humpback Whales In the San Francisco Bay Right Now?
Good news: there are likely more whales in the Bay because there are more whales overall.
Magazine
July-September 2017
Table of Contents
Conservation in Action
Where Trump Budget Cuts Could Affect Bay Area Conservation
Ask the Naturalist
Can You Take the Temperature By Cricket?
by Michael Ellis
Signs of the Season
Meet the Bay Area’s Migrating Dragonflies
by Claire Peaslee
First Person
José González on Growing Latino Outdoors
by Victor Reyes
Feature
Are the Bay Area’s Parks Too Crowded?
by Jeremy Miller
The “Ivory-Billed Woodpecker of Rare Wildflowers” is Now An Unlikely Symbol of Success in an Era of Extinction
by David Rains Wallace
Opening Shot
BayWood Artists Celebrate 20 Years of Painting With Mount Tam Show
by Christin Coy
The Last Frontier In Birding
by Alison Hawkes
On the Trail
The Charms of Tolay Lake Regional Park
by Greg Sarris
Bayview
Farewell Letter from Bay Nature Publisher David Loeb
by David Loeb
