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.
History
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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?
Q&A: Ken Layne and a New Voice in Nature Writing on the Web
It's rare to see someone trying to bring a new nature publication into the world. But with the March launch of Greenfriar, Bay Area-based writer Ken Layne is doing just...
