As we round the corner to the holidays, nature and communities in
the Bay Area welcome you to join in on the activities of fall.
Helping Out Around the Bay: Fall 2023 Stewardship Opportunities
October 3, 2023 •
Environmental Justice
Unburying the Creek Beneath It, A School Becomes a Steward
September 21, 2023 •
A Sausalito school gets $3 million to repair a riparian corridor, and help students reconnect with nature.
Unburying the Creek Beneath It, A School Becomes a Steward
September 21, 2023 •
A Sausalito school gets $3 million to repair a riparian corridor, and help students reconnect with nature.
Map: Where Oodles of Federal Dollars for Nature Are Going
September 15, 2023 •
BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area has topped $1 billion, according to Bay Nature’s most recent tally for our Wild Billions project.
Historic Money for Bay Area Nature Has Started to Flow. The Challenge? Spending it.
June 26, 2023 •
Meet BIL and IRA—two federal bills with forgettable names that belie their enormous potential impact on the environment.
Introducing Wild Billions
June 21, 2023 •
We’re examining a potentially transformational amount of money flowing to Bay Area nature from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Juristac: Proving the Sanctity of a Landscape
January 3, 2023 •
The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band has been barred from Juristac, a place of great cultural importance, for generations. The land has been grazed by cattle and developed for oil production over the years, and now, an investor group wants to build a sand-and-gravel quarry at the site.
6 Million Acres to Go
January 3, 2023 •
California, the most biodiverse state, hopes to stave off the Sixth Extinction by protecting 30 percent of its lands and waters by 2030. How’s that going?
How Indigenous People Got Some Land Back in Oakland
December 13, 2022 •
The city of Oakland just made history by giving over five acres in Joaquin Miller Park to an Indigenous land trust’s stewardship. But the backstory was decades in the making.
The Amah Mutsun Are Dancing on Mount Umunhum Once Again
October 31, 2022 •
To improve habitat connectivity, Midpen is working with partners to supplement a dark, narrow culvert under Highway 17 near Lexington Reservoir with another underpass designed specifically for wildlife.