EndangerBus Feature: Coho Salmon
Along the coast of Northern California, nearly every stream and creek once had its own migratory population of coho salmon. Their return each winter, once as reliable as the next...
Author Archives: Bay Nature Staff
EndangerBus Feature: Mission Blue Butterfly
If you're lucky some spring day in a few small patches of land near San Francisco, you may catch the glint of a male mission blue butterfly's iridescent wings. If...
EndangerBus Feature: Rapid Transit
Imagine a time when buses and streetcars and trains are everywhere in San Francisco, when everyone takes transit and almost no one owns a private car. This was close to...
EndangerBus Feature: Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
Every once in a while, a small and unremarkable animal makes a huge impact on a landscape. So it is with the salt marsh harvest mouse around the edges of...
EndangerBus Feature: San Francisco Garter Snake
Reptile expert Robert Stebbins calls the San Francisco garter snake "one of the most beautiful serpents in North America." The snake's dazzling patterns of color serve as camouflage in its...
Act Now to Save California State Parks
Now's the time to help save our California state parks from imminent closure under Governor Schwarzenegger's budget plan!
Transit to Trails Map
Download our updated map showing transit connections to protected parks and open spaces all over the San Francisco Bay Area.
East Bay Shoreline Parks
The East Bay Regional Park District and other parks agencies own and operate an impressive array of shoreline parks in the East Bay. Visit a different one every week, and...
Out of the Flames
On October 3, 1995, a wildfire erupted on Mount Vision at Point Reyes National Seashore. Before the flames were extinguished a week later, 12,000 acres of this popular park had...
Soil Matters
We tend to take the ground beneath our feet for granted, but soil is a defining feature of the landscape around us, in the garden and on the trail.
