What Stewardship Looks Like in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Defining stewardship can be hard. Showing it is easy.
Category: Stewardship
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.
Caring for the Places We Love
Stewardship in the 21st century and beyond
Stewardship Teams Using Tech
Bats are bellwethers of climate change, so One Tam’s listening closely
In Conservation, What’s Old Becomes New Again
It’s quite odd, when you stop and think about it, that landscapes shaped by millions of years of wind and rain and tectonic shifts, by countless millennia of vegetation growing and animals digging and dying, such that their boundaries follow the contours of nature, now find themselves shaped by people.
Who Knew Bees Could Bring A Mountain Together
Party cups—that would normally hold beer—painted fluorescent blue, yellow, and white rest atop a mess of dried-up orchardgrass and are tethered to the ground with a thin cord. Inside each cup is a slurry of soapy water and propylene glycol, … Read more
One Tam’s Meteoric Rise
Building a team—be it a gaggle of Little League baseball players, a coalition in Congress, or a new tech business—requires the same tools. And so it is with stewarding nature.
The (Other) Uber Network in California
Across the Golden State, conservation collectives are popping up like mushrooms after a hard rain. They’ve united as the California Landscape Stewardship Network. “Together we’re stronger” is their message.
Where the Wildlife Are
Meeting One Tam’s creatures in 2 million photos
The Last Big Save
Nearly a thousand acres of the valley oak savanna, wetlands, and agricultural land that once dominated Silicon Valley will be protected
Want to Prevent California’s Katrina? Grow a Marsh
These islands in the Delta aren't really islands at all anymore.
