Q&A With Jose Gonzalez, Founder of Latino Outdoors
A Q&A with Jose Gonzalez, whose group Latino Outdoors works to make nature accessible to everyone.
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Q&A: Open Space Planner David Hansen on How to Design Good Trails
David Hansen helped conserve and develop Marin open spaces including Olompali, China Camp, Mount Burdell, Lucas Valley, and Roy's Redwoods.
American Wilderness: Back to the Future in Vallejo
Environmental groups gathered in downtown Vallejo over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, to ponder the meaning of the word and to filter the concept through the lenses of California's diverse communities.
Sharing Secrets of the Oak Woodlands
Over a decade of close observation and research led to Kate Marianchild's first book Secrets of the Oak Woodlands.
Marsh Once More: The Bay Trail Takes Off at Hamilton Airfield
Looking out across the 650-acre project toward the distant Godzilla arm of the backhoe against the blue sky, I finally see on the ground what the planners and engineers have been describing to me ever since I first began writing stories about Hamilton ten years ago: a tapestry of habitats.
On Its 40th Anniversary, the Farallon Wilderness Remains Uniquely Wild
Each wilderness area has its own unique essence, and the Farallon Islands' might just be how utterly, unbelievably wild it is.
The Last Oyster
The West Coast’s native Olympia oyster serves an important role as an ecosystem builder with its ability to filter the water. But owing to reasons that are still somewhat unclear, over the last few millennia native oysters have largely disappeared from the San Francisco Bay.
California Academy of Sciences Acquires iNaturalist
The California Academy of Sciences acquired the nature-cataloguing tool iNaturalist in late April in a merger of two of the Bay Area’s most prominent faces of public science.
Why Bay Nature?
Publisher David Loeb had his Bay Nature epiphany while hiking in China Camp State Park. That’s when he conceived of the idea to start a magazine about the natural wonders of the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently David gave a … Read more
Nature Below Dolores Park, One Way or Another
A Dolores Park construction hole filled with water. Was this the clue to an unresolved mystery, and a window into a piece of San Francisco history?
