Human settlement in the San Francisco Bay Area dates back 10,000 years to early Native American settlements. Today, the region is a teeming metropolis of 7 million people that collectively challenge the health of the region’s ecosystems. How it got this way is a story that prompts a deeper understanding of our place in the landscape.
In the aftermath of a psychedelic mushroom trip, Baykeeper founder Michael Herz and Kate Josephs decided to upend their lives, move aboard a boat in the East Bay, and start producing a podcast on the history of the San Francisco Bay.
A quarter century of hard work has restored nature to the San Francisco Bay Area in places where it was once unimaginable.
Once slated for homes, now open to hikers
The city of Berkeley plans to purchase a Fourth Street parking lot and transfer the property to the nonprofit Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, as part of a recent settlement agreement over the long-contested shellmound site in West Berkeley.
Maybe we can save the Lange’s metalmark. Or maybe there’s a stand-in, waiting in the wings?
They're secret repositories of history, and places to contest exclusion, forgetting, and destruction.
Years before beavers famously returned to Martinez, Los Gatos locals were spotting them in their creeks and ponds. How they got there, though—that's a bit of a rabbit hole.
The city’s draft urban forest plan has drawn more than 800 comments—many clamoring for more native trees.
Sixty years ago, Bay Area bikers discovered the Panoche Hills, southeast of San José. Public lands management changed forever.
Following three years of construction, later this year the public will be welcomed back to the EBRPD-managed McCosker property, a landscape transformed.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
