Fighting to Save, and Popularize, San Bruno Mountain
David Schooley and San Bruno Mountain Watch have done much to save San Bruno Mountain. Now they want to share it with the world.
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.
Without Racial Diversity, Do Enviros Risk Becoming Marginalized?
UC Berkeley professor Carolyn Finney explains why environmentalists should support biodiversity — and racial diversity.
‘Slow Coast’ May Get a National Monument
Santa Cruz Redwoods National Monument has a certain ring to it.
From the Bottom Up at Mountain Lake
With San Francisco's Mountain Lake once again clean enough to support native species, its managers are reintroducing the basic building blocks of a healthy ecosystem.
Learning to Love the Presidio’s Ancient Dune Ecosystem
Ecologists hope that by reviving a rare dune ecosystem, the public will come to appreciate it as much as the forest.
Preserving Agriculture, Restoring a Watershed, and Getting Help from the Locals To Do It
On farmland near the Pajaro River, Point Blue, The Nature Conservancy, and a busload of school kids marry an idea about landscape restoration with an idea about the way the people who live, work, and play on that land can – and should -- be part of restoring it.
Bill Kortum Leaves Legacy in Conservation
Sonoma County's Bill Kortum, 87, dies leaving much of Sonoma County land preserved for posterity.
Letter from the Publisher: Eye-Opening “Functional Beauty”
Bay Nature Publisher David Loeb recalls the time he first encountered the eye-opening seaweed artwork of Josie Iselin.
In the South Bay Salt Ponds, Better Science Through Fishing
Field work is supposed to be where ecologists get to play Indiana Jones. The reality with swing-dancing joke-cracking fish-loving UC Davis research scientist Jim Hobbs is somewhat different: wet, muddy, smelly, and mostly involving either waiting for leopard sharks or harvesting leopard shark vomit.
Pier 94: By the People, For the Birds
P ier 94 salt marsh is located at the end of a wide road with dirt piled high on either side, past two cement plants and a truck weighing station. It doesn’t seem like ideal bird habitat. From the road, … Read more
