Gov. Jerry Brown wants to divert $500 million earmarked for environmental initiatives to balance state budget.

Understand everything better. Sign up to receive Bay Nature’s weekly newsletter!
Gov. Jerry Brown wants to divert $500 million earmarked for environmental initiatives to balance state budget.
The BAWT mobiles are in town, and they mean serious wilderness business. With the help of City Car Share and the local nonprofit Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT), Bay Area youth organizations can now reserve vans to transport children for field trips and campouts.
Climate change may have arrived in your own yard, and scientists across the nation would like to hear about it. Researchers and educators in the abstruse-sounding National Phenology Network hope to harness the power of hundreds or thousands of citizen scientists across the nation all keeping notes on critical changes in the natural world.