After 20 years, the state decides not to allow the expansion of an off-road vehicle park in the East Bay hills.
Tesla Park: Saved at Last
January 12, 2022 •
Conservation
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How Birds Help Keep the Pajaro River Levees Safe Without Poison
December 6, 2021 •
Rodents can weaken critical river levees. Instead of poisoning them, leading to ripple effects up the food chain, levee managers on the Pajaro River are encouraging raptors to patrol the area.
Candlestick Point Safe Parking Site Tests Using Public Park Land to Address Housing Insecurity
November 18, 2021 •
The Bayview-Hunters Point community, city, and state move forward on a first-of-its-kind use of a state park to house the unhoused.
Beavers Can Help California’s Environment, But State Policy Doesn’t Help Them
November 11, 2021 •
Scientific opinion of beavers has changed over the years, but when it comes to conflict, there’s still not many options.
Solving Problems With Eelgrass and Oysters
October 14, 2021 •
Giant Marsh’s $3 million restoration and enhancement is the first large-scale endeavor of the Coastal Conservancy’s San Francisco Bay Living Shorelines Project.
Does Protecting Land Work to Protect Wildlife?
October 13, 2021 •
Most conservation plans assume that protecting land works to help biodiversity. Point Blue scientists decided to check and see.
Raptors Rather Than Rodenticide
October 12, 2021 •
Replacing pesticides with barn owls for rodent control was one of several innovations that marked a new appetite for more environmentally sustainable production in California vineyards.
“No More House Sparrow”
October 5, 2021 •
“There is nothing gentle about bigotry.”
Public Lands Have Become a Refuge for People Priced Out of Housing in the West. Local Tensions are Increasing. What Now?
October 1, 2021 •
New questions about what — and who — public lands are for.
Uncomfortable Questions and Bay Nature’s New Fall 2021 Issue
September 30, 2021 •
Is it success if local policies triumph at the expense of environments elsewhere?