United States Interior Secretary Sally Jewell took in the view from the summit of Kreiger Peak to highlight the plan that helped preserve the east Contra Costa peak.
Eric Simons
Eric Simons is a former digital editor at Bay Nature. He is author of The Secret Lives of Sports Fans and Darwin Slept Here, and is coauthor, with Tessa Hill, of At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans.
California Academy of Sciences Acquires iNaturalist
May 6, 2014 •
The California Academy of Sciences acquired the nature-cataloguing tool iNaturalist in late April in a merger of two of the Bay Area’s most prominent faces of public science.
Orcas Erupt at Point Reyes
April 29, 2014 •
A pod of orcas put on a show for visitors off the shore of the Point Reyes Lighthouse this weekend. Check out these photos.
Nature Below Dolores Park, One Way or Another
April 22, 2014 •
A Dolores Park construction hole filled with water. Was this the clue to an unresolved mystery, and a window into a piece of San Francisco history?
First Person: Environmental Education Award Winner Liam O’Brien
April 21, 2014 •
The architect of urban butterfly habitat projects like Tigers on Market Street and the Green Hairstreak Corridor, and the restoration of Mission blues on Twin Peaks, Liam O’Brien is a man on a mission to prove that habitats for humans and habitats for butterflies aren’t mutually exclusive.
The Fish We Never Knew
April 16, 2014 •
The Galapagos damselfish exists only in the specimens collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, the victim of an unusually strong El Nino. Thoughts on the fish, and its lessons in a changing world.
All of These Monster Invasive Fish Came Out of One Small San Francisco Lake
March 20, 2014 •
In the Presidio’s Mountain Lake, as this sequence of photos shows, there are some ferocious predators lurking in the watery depths.
Q&A: Ken Layne and a New Voice in Nature Writing on the Web
March 18, 2014 •
It’s rare to see someone trying to bring a new nature publication into the world. But with the March launch of Greenfriar, Bay Area-based writer Ken Layne is doing just that.
When and Where Do I Look to See Orcas?
March 13, 2014 •
I’m trying to spot some orcas this year and wanted to know when and where I should look.
The Beauty and the Cheeseweed, a San Francisco Butterfly Love Story
February 28, 2014 •
Of the 35 breeding butterfly species in San Francisco, 25 have now found a non-native host plant they can work with. In an area this urban, undesirable weeds growing in sidewalk cracks have become vital to the life of butterflies.