Is bad news good news for the Bay and Delta’s diminishing flows?
John Hart
Meet Mount Tamalpais
How people came to understand the North Bay’s iconic peak.
Mount Tam’s First Botanist: Alice Eastwood and the Plants of Tamalpais
Alice Eastwood made her reputation and found botanical immortality on Mount Tam.
2017 Conservation Action Award Winner David Lewis: With Ballot Measure Passed, What’s Next for Save the Bay?
David Lewis steered Save the Bay through the successful passage of a game-changing regional ballot measure to fund restoration. Now he sets his sights on the next challenge.
Berryessa Snow Mountain: Northern California’s New National Monument
A journey through a nearby landscape that can seem farther off and stranger than the High Sierra.
Bay Area Wild: Reflections on 50 Years of Wilderness Protection
In a world thoroughly worked over by humankind, wilderness is our term for those places that seem the least altered, the least managed. It identifies the rawer end of a spectrum, with downtown San Francisco on one end and, say, the Wrangell Mountains on the other. But the word is elastic.
Map Sense: From Topos to Tablets at the East Bay Regional Parks
Every map tells a story — about the world, and about the person who made it.
Planned Wilderness
In eastern Contra Costa and Alameda counties, an ambitious vision for protecting big pieces of remaining open space is taking shape: From Black Diamond Mines and Mount Diablo to Brushy Peak and Sunol, several major agreements promise to replace ad hoc mitigation projects with a broader canvas of protected and connected habitat.
Suburban Slough
There is a godwho sits upon the sea’s blue monumentand breathes into the tide.He sits far off, and yet his breath is here. It is a little channel, barely wideenough to have some mud and pickleweed,with bulkheads hemming it on … Read more
Sherman Island
The Delta’s westernmost island, which shields major water-export pumps from incoming saltwater, is a testing ground for several efforts to prepare this fragile region for the threats of sea level rise and levee degradation.