Fish raised on farms generally eat their ground-up oceanic cousins. A farm in Susanville is trying to change that.
Photo Essay: The Vegan Trout
July 10, 2019 •
Conservation
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Controlling Weeds on Playing Fields, Parks and Lawns Without Herbicides
July 7, 2019 •
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Turfgrass covers more than 40 million acres of land in the continental United States, including lawns, parks, commercial landscapes, sports fields and golf courses. … Read more
Can Parks Help Cities Fight Crime?
June 28, 2019 •
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The relationship between parks and crime remains the subject of debate. Some scholars say parks and other urban green spaces prevent violence. When vacant … Read more
A Trout Reclaims a River
June 23, 2019 •
A year ago, Stanford University began removing the 120-year-old Lagunita Diversion Dam on San Francisquito Creek, which flows through Palo Alto and Menlo Park. As a result, last spring was the first migration season in over a century wherein California … Read more
A Time of Reckoning in the Central Valley
June 23, 2019 •
Climate change is upending agriculture and land use in California’s Central Valley
Photo Essay: Climate Change in the Central Valley
June 23, 2019 •
Photographer Jonno Rattman spent a week photographing the Central Valley for Bay Nature’s summer 2019 cover story, “A Time of Reckoning”. He was struck, as he traveled, by the near total absence of people — it was, he says, one … Read more
Building My Community Through Nature
June 23, 2019 •
It’s Saturday afternoon at Lands End in San Francisco. We are tired from all the weeding, but we feel alive and satisfied. A red-tailed hawk hovers above us, as if to signal that it’s time to end the program. We … Read more
A New Chapter in the Fight for Point Molate
June 23, 2019 •
Last March, Richmond officials announced that they’d chosen SunCal to develop a housing and renovation project on Point Molate, a small headland just north of the Richmond Bridge. The project has vocal opponents who, among other concerns, worry over the … Read more
A 21st Century Gateway to Castle Rock State Park
June 23, 2019 •
Note: The new entrance to Castle Rock is expected to open on August 1, 2019. Driving south along Skyline Boulevard (Route 35), the forest thick with Douglas fir and a green canopy of madrones casting shadows on the road, I … Read more
How People Saved the Seabirds of the California Current
June 14, 2019 •
It wasn’t until the federal government took away several of my favorite fisheries, and access to my favorite spots, that I fully comprehended what I had previously taken for granted … The ocean is, or was once, a public trust … Read more