We’re examining a potentially transformational amount of money flowing to Bay Area nature from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Introducing Wild Billions
June 21, 2023 •
Policy
Dungeness Crab Fishery Is Closed Early Again to Prevent Whale Entanglements
April 19, 2023 •
Dungeness crabbers finished the season without a single whale entanglement, unlike past years, but they paid a price.
When Will the Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument Open?
March 22, 2023 •
The Cotoni-Coast Dairies became a unit of the California Coastal National Monument in 2017. Following a two-year planning process, the Cotoni-Coast Dairies monument was slated to open in the fall of 2022. But that deadline has come and gone while the BLM navigates objections to the agency’s plan for public access.
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?
The Revival of a Clear Creek
October 31, 2022 •
In keeping with its three-part mission to acquire, restore, and open land for recreation, Midpen has worked to undo ecological damage to El Corte de Madera.
Logjam: The Supply Chain Problem That’s Keeping California From Preventing Catastrophic Wildfires on Private Land
October 11, 2022 •
Private landowners in California hold a huge amount of forest that’s primed to burn.
The Fight Over Sustainable Transportation in Santa Cruz County
July 26, 2022 •
As urban wildlife stakes its claim on the green corridor running through town, the human residents of the county have spent the past two decades arguing over what to do with this 32-mile stretch of train tracks
Learn to Burn
March 28, 2022 •
Scientists estimate that California needs to burn one million acres a year to prevent catastrophic wildfires. That’s more than a single agency can
manage, but if you teach one million people to burn one acre each …
Candlestick Point Safe Parking Site Tests Using Public Park Land to Address Housing Insecurity
November 18, 2021 •
The Bayview-Hunters Point community, city, and state move forward on a first-of-its-kind use of a state park to house the unhoused.