BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area has topped $1 billion, according to Bay Nature’s most recent tally for our Wild Billions project.
How Do I Get My Hands on These ‘Wild Billions,’ Anyway?
Bay Nature’s guide and database for finding nature-related federal funds in BIL and IRA.
Plants Are Culture, Too
¡Plantásticas! Our Lives with Plants, a temporary exhibition at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, explores the myriad relationships between people and plants, with a special focus on Latinx and Indigenous perspectives.
Scientists Try a ‘Field of Dreams’ Approach to Restoring California’s Bull Kelp Forests
Can scientists defeat vast armies of sea urchins and re-kelp California’s North Coast? A Wild Billions story.
Naturalist’s Notebook: How Pelicans and Humpbacks Stretch For Their Food
Pelicans don’t, as you may have heard, stick their spines out of their mouths. They do, however, do some pretty crazy yawn-stretching. From John Muir Laws.
With Instruments of Rocks and Shells, Cheryl Leonard Brings Nature’s Music To Life
“Anything can be musical instruments!” Leonard exclaims, in a studio full of bones, driftwood, feathers, stones, and homemade instruments.
The Secret Lives of Baby Tidepool Creatures
Imagine if your offspring were unrecognizable as the same species, and lived in a completely different habitat. This is the case for most tidepool creatures: barnacles, sea stars, urchins and more lead secret early lives as zooplankton, microscopic animals drifting out in the open ocean.
East Bay Parks: The McCosker Property Is A Landscape Transformed
Following three years of construction, later this year the public will be welcomed back to the EBRPD-managed McCosker property, a landscape transformed.
How to Be Helpful: Your Summer 2023 Stewardship Opportunities
Get involved with beach cleanups, trail-building, sea mammals in need, farming, or trail-cam research.
Summer 2023 Almanac: Barnacles, Bats, and Berries
This issue’s almanac features barnacles, berries, Steller’s jays, and more.