The California Attorney General’s office releases the results of its investigation into the State Parks Department over its funding fiasco.
Alison Hawkes
Winter Fog Brings Quiet Beauty to Bay Area Parks
With all the cold and moist days we’ve had lately, it’s the perfect time to experience winter’s tule fog, a different variety than summer’s ocean-borne type.
Pinnacles, trash and shipping
SF proceeds with enviro review of shipping trash by rail to Yuba County after groups sue, and more Bay Area nature news.
Bumblebees like flower diversity, not asphalt
Want to help out the bumblebee population? Get rid of asphalt and plant a diversity of flower species. That’s the conclusion of a new study of a California native bumblebee published recently in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy … Read more
Spotlight on San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
If you find yourself headed through the Central Valley at this time of the year, a nice pit stop off Highway 5 is the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
Virginia rail peeks through reeds at Lake Merced
A Virginia rail made a surprise year-end appearance at Lake Merced in San Francisco.
Celebrate the New Year with Canopus
Put yourself in just the right spot at midnight on New Year’s Eve and you may be able to see the second brightest star in the sky that’s normally invisible in much of the Bay Area — Canopus.
Welcoming in California’s new marine parks
Anyone who loves the California coast — that would be everyone, right? — should be toasting this week’s big news.
Trees snag Oakland’s first major creek daylighting project
A 250-foot stretch of Sausal Creek would see the light of day. But Oakland’s plans to remove 84 trees, many of them coast redwoods, has raised an uproar among Dimond Park users.
Owl, a shuttle and Treasure Island
The male in pair of great-horned owls who’ve long nested in Glen Park died of rat poison, and other Bay Area nature news.