News from around the conservation world of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nine of the 20 largest wildfires in California in the last 110 years were started by lightning strikes, including the devastating Lightning Complex fires in August 2020 that burned more...
For urban butterfly habitats, more is more.
It took decades of work to prepare for this spring's Northern California condor restoration on Yurok Tribal land.
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...
As the California Supreme Court wrote, "CEQA does not require an agency to consider the impact of existing conditions on future project users."
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...
Cape Horn is a concrete and earth-filled dam on the upper Eel River in Mendocino County. About 140 miles north of San Francisco, the dam was built in 1907 and...
Basking sharks can be over 30 feet long and are characterized by their enormous gill rakers and three-foot tall dorsal fins. But these mysterious, massive, filter-feeding cousins of the great...
A year of exceptional drama in the lives of Cal's peregrine falcons continues.
A fox looks sick in the Presidio, and Animal Care and Control reports increased numbers of sick raccoons and skunks.
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