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After a Fire, Fast-Growing Flowers Lock in a Long-Term Recovery
February 14, 2018 •
We’re used to thinking about how wildfires change the soil for plants. But a UC Berkeley researcher wants to turn the relationship around and ask how the plants that spring up after a fire could lock-in long-term soil recovery.
2018 Youth Engagement Local Hero Sandra Corzantes
January 18, 2018 •
San Mateo County Park Ranger Sandra Corzantes has won Bay Nature’s 2018 Youth Engagement award.
2018 Environmental Education Local Hero Lisa Micheli
January 18, 2018 •
Pepperwood Preserve President and CEO Lisa Micheli has won Bay Nature’s 2018 Environmental Education award.
2018 Conservation Action Local Hero Walter Moore
January 18, 2018 •
POST President Walter Moore has won Bay Nature’s 2018 Conservation Action award.
An Early Look at How the North Bay Fires Have Impacted Undeveloped Land in the Region
October 20, 2017 •
Initially, it appears the fires played an ecological role for open spaces and undeveloped lands.
California Scientists Release a Fly to Control a Landscape-Suffocating Invasive Ivy
September 25, 2017 •
A landscape engulfed in Cape ivy is difficult to take in. Scientists are turning to the plant’s natural enemy: a small South African fly.
Meet Mount Tamalpais
September 25, 2017 •
How people came to understand the North Bay’s iconic peak.
Find a Lot of Bugs When You Clean Your Backyard Swimming Pool? Scientists Want to See Them
August 25, 2017 •
A new citizen science project looks closely at the insect gold mine that is backyard pools — and already it’s found potentially new species.
Presumed Extinct, a Wildflower Reappears on Mount Diablo
June 28, 2017 •
The Mount Diablo Buckwheat disappeared in the 1930s. It was thought to be extinct. A single population was rediscovered in 2005. And then last year botanists found a new population numbering in the millions. How has this rarest of rare plants survived?