Time for your Bay Area nature news digest:
- Killer whale travels 2,000 miles in 2 weeks from Puget Sound to Point Reyes. [Marin Independent Journal]
- Biologist deems Sonoma County salamander tunnels a success. [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
- After recent tanker crash, officials consider limiting ship traffic when fog too thick. [San Francisco Examiner]
- Pilot of recent Bay Bridge tanker crash might have made faulty swerve as he was trying to be careful. [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Air quality at outdoor events in SF suddenly gets better. [San Francisco Examiner]
- Black bear spotted at Fort Bragg hospital. [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
- Aquariums dumping fish into California waters, causing problems with invasive species. [Huffington Post]
- Environmentalists worried about loss of egret and heron habitat after eucalyptus stand felled along Hwy 101 in Petaluma. [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
- Marin is one of the few salmon strongholds, despite difficulties in restoring population, according to officials who are seeking to implement a new federal recovery plan for coho. [Marin Independent Journal]