Watching Wildlife Move Through Sonoma Valley
Science has led us to an increasing understanding of the importance of wildlife corridors. Sonoma pioneers the monitoring of a series of corridors.
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.
Bay Area Climate Adaptation Collaborative Shutters
An organization dedicated to responding to climate change in a nature-friendly way loses funding.
After a Fire, Fast-Growing Flowers Lock in a Long-Term Recovery
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.
An Early Look at How the North Bay Fires Have Impacted Undeveloped Land in the Region
Initially, it appears the fires played an ecological role for open spaces and undeveloped lands.
Meet Mount Tamalpais
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
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
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?
Tribal Chairman Sarris on the Charms of Tolay Lake
Tolay Lake Regional Park in Sonoma. Trail: 3.1 mi, 164 ft elevation gain, loop
José González on Growing Latino Outdoors
Latino Outdoors is a familiar part of the California conservation landscape. Now its founder is ready for LO to take its place alongside the Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy.
Where Trump Budget Cuts Could Affect Bay Area Conservation
A small sample of the big ways the president's proposed budget would slash conservation measures around the Bay Area.
