Healing the Body, Mind, and Cultural Divide: It’s More than a Walk in the Park
One Saturday morning late last spring, I pulled into Garin Regional Park in the hills above Hayward. I didn’t have the $5 for parking, but intuiting why I was there,...
Exploration
Controlling Weeds on Playing Fields, Parks and Lawns Without Herbicides
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Turfgrass covers more than 40 million acres of land in the continental United States,...
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...
Walking the Entire Bay
Thirty years after the project officially began, the idea for the San Francisco Bay Trail seems both delightfully obvious and considerably difficult. To link Bay Area communities across nine counties...
A 21st Century Gateway to Castle Rock State Park
Driving south along Skyline Boulevard (Route 35), the forest thick with Douglas fir and a green canopy of madrones casting shadows on the road, I find myself saying out loud,...
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.
What Do You Do About the Insect Apocalypse?
Scientists sound the alarm about free-falling insect populations. What can you do about it?
Six Parks, One Campsite, and 32 Miles
East Bay Skyline National Recreation Trail: 32.9 mi, 5,725 ft elevation gain, point-to-point
A Gardener in the World
Can the native plant movement outlast its scientific and cultural critics?
San Francisco Opens a New Campground at Sunrise Point
Residents and advocates turn to the challenge of keeping it welcome.
