Deciding Point Molate’s Future
On May 18, the Richmond City Council voted to extend for 10 months an agreement with a developer proposing a casino at Point Molate, a former Navy fuel depot near...
Author Archives: Dan Rademacher
Dan was editor of Bay Nature from 2004 until 2013, when he left to work for SF-based Stamen Design. He is now executive director of GreenInfo Network, a nonprofit mapmaking organization. A onetime professional cabinetmaker, he considers himself a lifelong maker of things and teller of stories. Dan has been working at the intersection of journalism and technology since, at age 16, he began learning reporting, page layout, and database design. His enduring interest in environmental issues crystallized into a career path in 1998 when he assisted former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass in a cross-disciplinary nature writing and ecology course at UC Berkeley, from which Dan received a Masters in English literature. In 1999, he became Associate Editor of Terrain, the erstwhile quarterly magazine of Berkeley's Ecology Center. In addition to editing and art-directing Bay Nature magazine, he was also Bay Nature’s chief technology strategist, fixer of broken things, and designer of databases and fancy spreadsheets. And he was even known to leave the office and actually hike outdoors.
New Web Tool to Find Parks
California's State Parks Department and San Francisco-based nonprofit GreenInfo Network on Friday announced a new web-based tool for finding parks, campgrounds, and trails all across the state.
Development Threats in Los Medanos Hills
The hills above the Concord Naval Weapons Station are part of a property proposed for development by local builder Albert Seeno’s Discovery Builders. But local open space advocates are hoping...
Trial by Fire for Condors
In June 2008, when the Basin Fire burned through the Big Sur coast, California condors, and the biologists who monitor them, faced wildlfire for the first time in living memory....
Mori’s Story
A town comes together to protect beautiful Mori Point, home to threatened frogs, endangered snakes, and superb wildflowers.
Impressions of Tamalpais
We talk with Tom Killion, who grew up in Mill Valley. He has been making woodblock prints of the California landscape since he was a teenager, including about 60 of...
New Google Earth: Going Underwater and Back in Time
At the California Academy on Sciences on February 2, Google announced a new version of Google Earth that holds tremendous promise for conservationists worldwide, and no shortage of data on...
Oil Spill CSI
The 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay may be bad news for herring.
Marking Time on the Dunes
A walk at Lawson’s Landing is a step back into simpler times, when families returned to the same spot every summer, and nobody worried too much about building permits and...
Book Review: The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, by Richard A. Walker, University of Washington Press, 2007, 404 pages, $35 University of Washington Press In...
