Save the Redwoods League has agreed on a deal to acquire 564 acres of redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains, creating a new connection from Big Basin to Año Nuevo State Parks and protecting the headwaters of Cascade Creek. … Read more
Conservation
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Why California is Banning Chlorpyrifos, a Widely Used Pesticide: 5 Questions Answered
January 23, 2020 •
California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental problems and impaired brain function in children.
Mount Diablo, a Story of Place
January 10, 2020 •
This is an excerpt from photographer and longtime Bay Nature contributor Stephen Joseph’s new book, Mount Diablo, A Story of Place and Inspiration. The book consists of hundreds of Joseph’s photographs, taken over three years on the mountain, and features essays by local conservation leaders.
Caring for the Places We Love
January 6, 2020 •
Stewardship in the 21st century and beyond
What Stewardship Looks Like in the Santa Cruz Mountains
January 6, 2020 •
Defining stewardship can be hard. Showing it is easy.
Organizing for Resilience
January 6, 2020 •
Climate change is an urgent call for changing how we steward the land and connect people to it.
Stewardship Teams Using Tech
January 6, 2020 •
Bats are bellwethers of climate change, so One Tam’s listening closely
In Conservation, What’s Old Becomes New Again
January 6, 2020 •
It’s quite odd, when you stop and think about it, that landscapes shaped by millions of years of wind and rain and tectonic shifts, by countless millennia of vegetation growing and animals digging and dying, such that their boundaries follow the contours of nature, now find themselves shaped by people.
Who Knew Bees Could Bring A Mountain Together
January 6, 2020 •
Party cups—that would normally hold beer—painted fluorescent blue, yellow, and white rest atop a mess of dried-up orchardgrass and are tethered to the ground with a thin cord. Inside each cup is a slurry of soapy water and propylene glycol, … Read more
One Tam’s Meteoric Rise
January 6, 2020 •
Building a team—be it a gaggle of Little League baseball players, a coalition in Congress, or a new tech business—requires the same tools. And so it is with stewarding nature.