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Bay Nature Summer 2022 Editor’s Letter: Summer Reading
An introduction to Bay Nature magazine’s summer 2022 print issue.
What’s the Secret of Strawberry Hill, a Butterfly Haven in a City That’s Rough on Butterflies?
For urban butterfly habitats, more is more.
Home Away From Home: Meeting the Red-Whiskered Bulbul in San Francisco
What place does a bird away from home hold in San Francisco?
When an Animal Dies in a National Park, What Does the Park Service Do With It?
Large carcasses can’t just be wiped up. What are the other options?
The Reintroduction Odyssey of the Yurok Condors
It took decades of work to prepare for this spring’s Northern California condor restoration on Yurok Tribal land.
They Live in Your Garden, Have Flexible Head Arrangements, and May or May Not Cause Problems. Meet the Land Planarians, About Which We Know Very Little.
“The time is ripe for biologists to unravel the diversity, ecology, and natural history of land flatworms,” one scientist writes
This Is a Story About A Super-Cute Long-tailed Weasel Spotted in San Francisco’s Presidio for the First Time in a Century…
Erica Spotswood, the science director of the San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Urban Nature Lab, got her dissertation studying seed dispersal on the French Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Moorea. A kind of low-growing fruit tree named Miconia calvescens had arrived … Read more
Bay Planners Highlight Another Missing Element in California Environmental Law: It Doesn’t Account Well for the Future
As the California Supreme Court wrote, “CEQA does not require an agency to consider the impact of existing conditions on future project users.”
With One Threat Nearly Tamed, a Related Question: What Does the Bay Most Need to Be Saved From?
If you look up the Arrowhead Marsh along the Oakland shoreline on Google Maps, the arrowhead shape is striking. If you look closer, you see that the eastern half of the marsh is noticeably darker in color than the western … Read more