For this summer, we’ve pulled together a few of our favorites—reads, guides, coastal trails and summer volunteering opportunities.
Kids and Nature
Urban Nature
Here Comes the 2023 City Nature Challenge, A Global Competition You Can Join This Weekend
What’s your plan for this year’s City Nature Challenge, April 28-May 1? Here’s what it’s all about, plus a map of Bay Area bioblitzes you can join.
Exploration
New Tunnel Tops Park with Views of San Francisco Bay
The Presidio in San Francisco.
Trail: 4.2 mi, 351 ft elevation gain, loop
Kids and Nature
School Districts Attempt to Revive Outdoor Education Programs Slashed During the Pandemic
This story was first published by EdSource, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to providing analysis on key education issues facing the state and nation. Read the original story here. Many outdoor education programs in California have shut down in the … Read more
Parks
The World’s Most Powerful Classroom. No Tech Support Required.
The focus on nature right now might seem counterintuitive. On the contrary, being outside is recognized as an essential activity.
Spring Issue 2020
The Adventure Crew Helps Make Regional Parks Accessible
On a crisp, bright Saturday morning in December, Andrew Fonseca, age 12, has joined a group of middle schoolers at the front gates of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden, in Tilden Park above Berkeley. His first reaction to the garden: … Read more
Botany
An Update to the App to Identify (Almost) Anything (Almost) Anywhere
If you ever wander around wanting to know the names of plants and animals around you, Seek, a newly rebuilt app from the iNaturalist team at the California Academy of Sciences, now offers instant identifications through the camera view on … Read more
Kids and Nature
Global Warming is “Just One of the Facts of Children’s Lives,” A Q&A with Ivy + Bean Author Annie Barrows
Children’s author Annie Barrows talks with Bay Nature about her second grade heroines tackling climate change for the science fair.
Winter Issue 2019
School’s Out(side)
Can California teach an understanding of the natural world to every K-12 schoolkid in the state?
