Northern California naturalist David Lukas’ latest book encourages people to “take back” nature by creating a new lexicon for natural phenomena.
Kids and Nature
Bay Nature Local Heroes, History, Kids and Nature, Wildlife
2016 Bay Nature Hero Award Winner
Publishing icon and Bay Nature co-founder Malcolm Margolin will receive a special award for his invaluable contributions to Bay Nature and the cultural life of the Bay Area.
Climate Change, Kids and Nature, Urban Nature
What’s Living in the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge? Plenty, Still.
The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge might not look like much. But its industrial surroundings hide a biodiversity gem.
Kids and Nature, Stewardship, Urban Nature
The Randall Museum Closes for a Makeover, and the Animals Get a Big Adventure
On moving day at the remodeling Randall Museum, beloved animals leave their home for the next year.
Botany, Kids and Nature, Stewardship, Urban Nature
To Save a Park in San Francisco’s Bayview, Advocates Turn to Citizen Science “With a Mission”
Development could wipe out one of the Bayview’s few open space areas. Nature in the City hopes knowing more about what lives there can stop the construction.
Kids and Nature
To Get Kids to the Wilderness, Oakland Group Trains and Equips Trip Leaders
Oakland-based Bay Area Wilderness Training tries to provide teachers and trip leaders with everything they need — from leadership skills to equipment — to get kids out in nature.
Summer Issue 2014
It’s Fun! It’s Science! It’s a Bioblitz!
On the last weekend of March, 9,000 people armed with binoculars, butterfly nets, cameras, and smartphones, spread out over an archipelago of national park lands from Point Reyes in Marin County to Mori Point on the San Mateo coast. Their … Read more
Kids and Nature, Urban Nature, Wildlife
First Blue Heron Cam in California Set up at Stow Lake
A blue heron cam will be watching the majestic birds nest on Stow Lake this year to aid in research and public education.
Kids and Nature, Stewardship
San Francisco Students Display Their Scientific Flair at Annual Science Fair
More than 200 science projects from 34 San Francisco schools will be on display at the Randall Museum in Corona Heights for the next two weeks as part of the San Francisco Middle School Science Fair.
Kids and Nature, Stewardship, Trails
Helping Restore Hamilton Wetland from the Ground Up
Several thousand of the 60,000 plants intended to ultimately go into the ground at the Hamilton Wetland restoration site will arrive there via the hands of young Marin residents as part of the Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed Program.
