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.
Author Archives: Alison Hawkes
Alison Hawkes was a Bay Nature editor from 2011-2017. Before Bay Nature she worked in journalism for more than a decade as a former newspaper reporter turned radio producer turned web editor with each rendition bringing her closer to her dream of covering environmental issues. She co-founded Way Out West, a site dedicated to covering Bay Area environmental news.
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.
A petition, an oil boom and a Douglas fir
Wild Emergency Services, an animal aid group, has started a petition to change way California Fish & Game deals with mountain lions in public places after Half Moon Bay cougar cub shooting, and more Bay Area nature news.
King Tide, Oakland Zoo and Humboldt squids
Thursday will bring highest tides of year. Grab your camera and help document Bay Area’s risk of sea level rise, and more Bay Area nature news.
Fracking leases, conservatives and a lone wolf
On Wednesday, feds opening 18,000 acres of land for oil and gas leases in Monterey Shale in central California, and other Bay Area nature news.
Bay Area’s Top 10 nature gifts for the holidays
Hey, Bay Area nature lovers. Still on the hunt for a perfect holiday gift? Bay Nature has assembled a Top 10 list of local nature gifts.
Cougar cubs, oysters and weather stations
Widespread criticism over Cal Fish & Game decision to shoot cougar cubs hiding out at Half Moon Bay house, and more Bay Area nature news.
A devil, killer whales and a lawsuit
Enjoy the start of this week’s “atmospheric river” with a little nature news: Largest concentration of aggressive great-tailed grackles, a.k.a. “devil’s bird,” turns up in SF’s Lake Merced. [San Francisco Chronicle] SF enviros wary over bill to streamline enviro review, … Read more
