A black turnstone blends into the environment near the Berkeley Pier. Read more about the creation of the Eastshore State Park in the April-June issue of Bay Nature. | Photo by Jerry Ting
Nature News
Bay Area Scientists Push Back Against Federal Freeze on Meetings
The Department of Interior is forbidding committee meetings, but one prominent California-based partnership of NGOs and resource managers is going to keep talking to one another anyway.
Sharks Are Dying By the Hundreds in San Francisco Bay
Leopard sharks and bat rays are dying by the hundreds and washing ashore all around the Bay. A pathologist at the California Department Fish and Wildlife thinks he may know why.
At a Snail’s Place: How the Range of a Common Sea Snail Explains the Underlying Logic of the Universe
The surprising, spiraling story of why sea snails live where they live.
David Lewis: Climbing Outside the Box to See the Beauty in Nature and People
Remarks by Save the Bay Executive Director David Lewis at the 2017 Bay Nature Local Heroes Awards Dinner.
Naturalist's Notebook
They Lowered the Level of San Mateo’s Marina Lagoon and Found … These Things
Australian tube worms are now widespread in brackish waters of the San Francisco Bay.
Currents
The Efficient Beauty of Starfish Larvae
A sea star baby creates complicated, beautiful water patterns — and a team of Stanford scientists looks for an explanation.
Magazine
April-June 2017
Table of Contents
Ask the Naturalist
Is This the Worst Flooding Year Ever?
by Michael Ellis
How the East Bay Shoreline Became A Park for the People
by Lisa Krieger
The Old Bay Bridge Is Coming Down, Leaving a 40-Year-Old Cormorant Colony Adrift
by Mark J. Rauzon
Signs of the Season
The Boldness of Bewick’s Wren
by Eric Schroeder
First Person
2017 Conservation Action Award Winner David Lewis
by John Hart
Opening Shot
An Atlantic Bird Makes a New Home in California — Maybe Because of Melting Arctic Ice
by Alison Hawkes
Naturalist's Notebook
They Lowered the Level of San Mateo’s Marina Lagoon and Found … These Things
by John Muir Laws
Conservation in Action
As Rainy Winter Spreads Sudden Oak Death Pathogen, a Scientist Races to Build Resistance
by Alison Hawkes
First Person
2017 Environmental Education Award Winners Alison Young and Rebecca Johnson
by Eric Simons
First Person
2017 Youth Engagement Award Winner Uriel Hernandez
by Alison Hawkes
On the Trail
A Mountaintop with Panoramic Bay Area Views, Closed to the Public for 59 Years, Opens This Fall
by Elizabeth Devitt
