Bay Nature Spring 2022 Editor’s Letter: Do Right Today
As the poet Wendell Berry says, “if we do the right things today, we’ll have done all we really can for tomorrow.”
Bay Nature Local Heroes
Meet Emma Lewis, Bay Nature’s 2021 Young Leader
Meet Emma Lewis, this year's Young Leader Local Hero, and learn about her work to restore native habitat on South San Francisco's historic Sign Hill.
Meet Clayton Anderson, Bay Nature’s 2021 Environmental Education Hero
Meet Clayon Anderson, this year's Environmental Educator Local Hero, and learn about his work to teach students young and old about birds and the issues affecting them.
Meet Doug McConnell, Bay Nature’s 2021 Local Hero
Meet Doug McConnell, this year's Bay Nature Hero, and learn more about his work as a TV journalist telling the stories of Northern California landscapes.
Meet Wendy Eliot, Bay Nature’s 2021 Conservation Action Hero
Meet Wendy Eliot, our 2021 Conservation Action Hero, and learn about her work to protect and steward land as the longtime Conservation Director of Sonoma Land Trust.
Meet José González, Bay Nature’s 2021 Community Hero
Meet José González, this year's Community Hero, and learn about his work to create and support a network of Latinx outdoor leadership and environmental advocacy.
2020 Youth Leader Award Winner Avalon Qian Leads Young People into the Outdoors
When Avalon Qian was 12 years old, she went on a two-week backpacking and kayaking trip to Point Reyes led by the outdoor nonprofit GirlVentures. It was the first time...
2020 Community Hero Award Winner Vincent Medina Changes the Ohlone Narrative
Vincent Medina learned as a volunteer tending the gardens at Mission Dolores in San Francisco that his grandmother from six generations ago was buried in its cemetery. She lived at...
2020 Conservation Action Hero Sejal Choksi-Chugh Keeps the Bay Clean
In 2011, when Sejal Choksi-Chugh was in her ninth year as an attorney at San Francisco Baykeeper, their staff scientist was on a routine boat patrol and saw toxic petroleum...
2020 Environmental Educator Award Winner John Muir Laws Introduces the World to Nature Journaling
He remembers the precise excursion when his future found him. John Muir Laws was with his mother’s botany group on Table Mountain and a woman with a sketchbook captured his...
