There’s a certain predictable expression that frequently settles on the face of the friend or family member I’m talking to when I say the word “biodiversity.” I’d call it tolerantly bored.
Live Biodiversity
March 24, 2020 •
Conservation
Bay Nature Local Heroes | Environmental Justice | Farming and Ranching | Health | Parks | Policy | Pollution | Stewardship
Biodiversity and the Spread of Disease
March 24, 2020 •
Throughout history ecology has often driven infectious disease.
2020 Community Hero Award Winner Vincent Medina Changes the Ohlone Narrative
March 24, 2020 •
Vincent Medina learned as a volunteer tending the gardens at Mission Dolores in San Francisco that his grandmother from six generations ago was buried in its cemetery. She lived at the mission against her will until she died. A Chochenyo-speaking … Read more
2020 Conservation Action Hero Sejal Choksi-Chugh Keeps the Bay Clean
March 24, 2020 •
In 2011, when Sejal Choksi-Chugh was in her ninth year as an attorney at San Francisco Baykeeper, their staff scientist was on a routine boat patrol and saw toxic petroleum coke dust blowing into the Bay from the Levin-Richmond Terminal, … Read more
2020 Environmental Educator Award Winner John Muir Laws Introduces the World to Nature Journaling
March 24, 2020 •
He remembers the precise excursion when his future found him. John Muir Laws was with his mother’s botany group on Table Mountain and a woman with a sketchbook captured his attention. She was sitting and drawing the flowers they were … Read more
Remembering the Survival Faire, Earth Day’s Predecesor
March 24, 2020 •
Fifty years ago, San José State students buried a car to symbolize the end of the oil era and the first Earth Day.
Park Closures and Openings
March 17, 2020 •
Some ideas for places to visit where you can keep a social distance.
Save the Redwoods Reaches Deal for 564-Acre Cascade Creek Forest Near Año Nuevo
January 30, 2020 •
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
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.