April is the peak month for gray whales passing by the San Francisco Bay Area, drawing spectators to the coast to scan the ocean’s surface for a heart-shaped spout or the flick of a gray-speckled tail. But while the abundance … Read more
Category: Nature News
News from around the conservation world of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nature News
Home on the Range
This story originally appeared in bioGraphic, an online magazine about nature and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. Photographs by Sarah Killingsworth Point Reyes sits at the western edge of Marin County, California, a pick-axe shaped peninsula that juts … Read more
Climate Change
Now, California Waits for the Fires
Drought returns to California, with a long fire season ahead.
Fire
Rebuilding Big Basin
California’s first State Park burned in the 2020 CZU Lightning Fires. Now conservation groups want it to rebuild as the model of state parks for the future.
Nature News
City and Regional Goals Clash as Newark Pushes Ahead With Low-Density Housing in A Bayshore Flood Zone
Can, or should, regional agencies intervene in a city’s development decision?
Nature News
Disease Outbreak Appears to be Killing Bay Area Trees
In at least one tree species, scientists say the culprit appears to be a fungal pathogen.
Fire
LNU Fire Complex Scalds Some Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument Landscapes, Spares Others, Tour Reveals
The splash of green on the ashen landscape was unexpected. Marc Hoshovsky, a naturalist retired from a career with California state agencies, was reviewing a satellite photo of areas burned in the LNU Complex fire last fall, hoping to tease … Read more
Urban Nature
What a City Can Do for Nature
In the early 1990s, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reviewed the status of a rare coastal sand dune plant called the San Francisco lessingia, which grows only in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. The background the service … Read more
Nature News
Meet the Rare Dawn Redwood at a Bay Area Park
Rare and once thought extinct, the dawn redwood is an ancient relative of the more familiar coast redwood.
