Can California Reverse Biodiversity Decline?
At a time when development is paving over habitat and climate change is transforming ecosystems at an unprecedented pace, California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot says the state has...
Conservation
New Maps, New Perspectives
North Coyote Valley near San José might look unremarkable in the context of the Bay Area’s 1.2 million acres of unprotected land. But there’s actually nothing quite like it. The...
2020 Youth Leader Award Winner Avalon Qian Leads Young People into the Outdoors
When Avalon Qian was 12 years old, she went on a two-week backpacking and kayaking trip to Point Reyes led by the outdoor nonprofit GirlVentures. It was the first time...
Live Biodiversity
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...
Biodiversity and the Spread of Disease
Throughout history ecology has often driven infectious disease.
2020 Community Hero Award Winner Vincent Medina Changes the Ohlone Narrative
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...
2020 Conservation Action Hero Sejal Choksi-Chugh Keeps the Bay Clean
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...
2020 Environmental Educator Award Winner John Muir Laws Introduces the World to Nature Journaling
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...
Remembering the Survival Faire, Earth Day’s Predecesor
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
Some ideas for places to visit where you can keep a social distance.
