The status of San Francisco Bay is of immense importance to our health and well-being. Keeping the Bay—and all other local waterways—clean remains a constant challenge, as more people come to live around its shores. October 18, 2002, marks the … Read more
Conservation
Fall Issue 2002
Yosemite National Institutes
One way to foster the development of future environmental heroes is to expose young people to the wonders of the natural world. To that end, numerous organizations around the Bay Area empower children and families to get outside and explore. … Read more
Summer Issue 2002
San Mateo Stewardship, and Committee for Green Foothills Turns 40
Thanks to a long history of open space protection in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, many beautiful rural coastal vistas have been saved from development. Recently, 170 land managers from these counties, representing private, governmental, and nonprofit organizations, gathered … Read more
Summer Issue 2002
Mike Vasey Field Course
Here’s another great opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the nature of our bioregion: join San Francisco State professor and Bay Nature contributor Michael Vasey for a six-day course called “Conserving Biodiversity in the San Francisco Bay Estuary,” offered through … Read more
Summer Issue 2002
Salt Ponds Restoration Report
As you have probably heard, 16,500 acres of salt ponds in southern San Francisco Bay will soon be purchased from Cargill Salt and handed over to the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. This historic purchase, funded by … Read more
Summer Issue 2002
San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program
Small fragments of San Francisco’s original plant communities still survive today, the last vestiges of the unique grasslands, dunes, oak woodlands, and creeks that are the natural heritage of the City by the Bay. Through site stewardship, the San Francisco … Read more
Spring Issue 2002
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center – West County Watershed Day
Since 1994, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (www.oaec.org; 707-874-1557) in western Sonoma County has been thinking up unusual and surprising ways to tackle environmental problems at their roots. Through research and demonstration projects, an educational center, and a biodiversity-focused farm, … Read more
Spring Issue 2002
Pescadero Conservation Alliance Restoration of Mountain Camp
Over the past few years, local conservationists have devoted a fair amount of energy to purchasing land along the spectacular San Mateo coast to save it from development. Now a major effort has begun to study and restore the land … Read more
Spring Issue 2002
Big Basin Redwoods State Park Centennial Celebration
On Saturday, June 8, Big Basin Redwoods State Park kicks off its 100-day Centennial Celebration. Big Basin is California’s oldest state park, established under the leadership of photographer Andrew P. Hill and the Sempervirens Club as the 19th-century logging boom … Read more
Winter Issue 2002
Environmental Docent Trainings
If you’re interested in sharing your infectious love of nature with others, consider signing up for one of the many local training programs that teach you to be a docent or environmental educator. Just a small sampling: If marine environments … Read more
