Big environmental dreams—and disasters—have created demand. Now it’s time to worry about supply.
The Native Seed Gold Rush
October 19, 2023 •
Parks
California's state park system is the largest and most diverse natural and cultural heritage holdings in the nation. Yet the century-and-a-half-old system has been in perpetual crisis mode for several decades, battered about by funding shortfalls and repeated threats of closures.
New Trail on Doolittle Drive Does a Lot
October 10, 2023 •
A half mile of new trail helps address a surprising number of problems in Oakland.
Helping Out Around the Bay: Fall 2023 Stewardship Opportunities
October 3, 2023 •
As we round the corner to the holidays, nature and communities in
the Bay Area welcome you to join in on the activities of fall.
Map: Where Oodles of Federal Dollars for Nature Are Going
September 15, 2023 •
BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area has topped $1 billion, according to Bay Nature’s most recent tally for our Wild Billions project.
East Bay Parks: The McCosker Property Is A Landscape Transformed
July 25, 2023 •
Following three years of construction, later this year the public will be welcomed back to the EBRPD-managed McCosker property, a landscape transformed.
The Geology of Lake Merritt, Oakland’s Shimmering Tidal Heart
July 17, 2023 •
Our lake is a world-class oddity, an arm of the Bay in the midst of a city. It rises and falls with the daily tides. An inside-out island, a marine habitat surrounded by land, it is truly a mediterranean sea.
Historic Money for Bay Area Nature Has Started to Flow. The Challenge? Spending it.
June 26, 2023 •
Meet BIL and IRA—two federal bills with forgettable names that belie their enormous potential impact on the environment.
Introducing Wild Billions
June 21, 2023 •
We’re examining a potentially transformational amount of money flowing to Bay Area nature from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Moss Knows How to Wait
June 6, 2023 •
Mosses are not particularly competitive; they do not crowd out other species. They find a foothold where there are the proper resources: moisture, a place to tuck their rhizoid roots. The range from which they can acquire nourishment is limited. Humans are on the opposite end of that spectrum, able to move resources long distances, at increasingly devastating costs to one another and to ecosystems.
When Will the Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument Open?
March 22, 2023 •
The Cotoni-Coast Dairies became a unit of the California Coastal National Monument in 2017. Following a two-year planning process, the Cotoni-Coast Dairies monument was slated to open in the fall of 2022. But that deadline has come and gone while the BLM navigates objections to the agency’s plan for public access.