While county and national parks remain open, the state is restricting access at its Northern California beaches
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.
A Model For Dismantling Environmental Racism
June 25, 2020 •
Literacy for Environmental Justice has worked with youth and nature in San Francisco for two decades.
Did Salmon Always Live in San José?
June 24, 2020 •
After an absence of many decades, Chinook salmon swim up the Guadalupe River in San José most winters. The fish look for places to lay eggs and often find them. If there’s enough water left in the dry season, their … Read more
Lord of the Flies
June 21, 2020 •
Bored at home? Learn how to train common flies to ride on your finger like miniature falcons.
A “Possible Record” Number of Blue Whales Visit the Farallones
June 16, 2020 •
After a foggy few weeks at the Farallon Islands, 25 miles west of San Francisco, Saturday turned clear. The five biologists who have been living and working on Southeast Farallon Island since March 30 walked the rickety path up to … Read more
Q&A With “Bird Savant” John Robinson on Black Birders Week
June 4, 2020 •
A Q&A with Bay Area birder John Robinson about race, access, and birding.
Some Closed Bay Area Parks to Reopen
April 29, 2020 •
As part of a regional easing of shelter-in-place restrictions, parks will start to reopen in Sonoma and San Mateo County after a month of full closure. Sonoma, which fully closed all of its parks on March 23, will maintain its … Read more
Why Are Some Parks Closed But Others Not?
April 23, 2020 •
Every county, and every county park system, is different.
The City Nature Challenge, Modified, Returns
April 22, 2020 •
The global species-finding competition returns on April 24, minus the competition.
Nature “Without Us” … Looks Like Nature With Us?
April 7, 2020 •
It’s hard not to wonder if maybe it’s the people that have changed, and not the animals.