The San Francisco Bay Area is bejeweled with hundreds of parks and open space preserves as well as a rich set of laws and policies meant to ensure the survival of vulnerable species and ecosystems. Real people made this happen through a dedicated call to stewardship.
We recognize Bay Nature is a regional magazine. We cover the counties touching San Francisco Bay and a bit beyond into Northern California. That’s part of what makes it an unusual publication, one that reports on places and people you … Read more
How Measure AA funds are being used to restore shorelines, wildlife habitat, and public access around the San Francisco Bay
As closures and financial losses mount, Bay Area organizations have cut back on staff or science.
Some say a landmark conservation deal is now a "vision unfulfilled"
In May, my family and I headed to Sycamore Grove Park near Livermore for a long stroll on Mother’s Day. Something about the dry heat and native, lazy-limbed sycamore trees there feels like an earlier version of California, and it … Read more
Skyline Gardens, an incredible hotspot for California native plants with sweeping views, doesn't look like a garden. But it is.
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 valley represents one of the few available undeveloped connections between … Read more
Fifty years ago, San José State students buried a car to symbolize the end of the oil era and the first Earth Day.
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
Climate change is an urgent call for changing how we steward the land and connect people to it.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
