Photographer David Liittschwager set out to capture one cubic foot of San Francisco Bay. The results are extraordinary, like a cross between alien life forms and fine jewelry.
Miniature Marvels: San Francisco Bay Plankton
July 1, 2013 •
The Bay
The San Francisco Bay is our region's dominant geographic feature.
Waist Deep in North Bay Wetlands
July 1, 2013 •
North Bay wetlands restoration is in high gear along Highway 37, where restoration planners and crews are making big strides in bringing back the tides.
Monitoring steelhead: Counting the fish after they’ve hatched
June 30, 2013 •
A new study aims to see how well our steelhead trout are doing AFTER they’ve grown up a bit. Are they getting big enough to survive in the ocean?
Year of the Bay: Let’s put our backs into making a better Bay
June 30, 2013 •
This summer’s confluence of the Americas Cup races and the presumptive opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge (if they can figure out what to do about those pesky bolts) has some people calling 2013 the Year … Read more
Bay Restoration: Lines in the Mud
June 30, 2013 •
Over decades of struggle, San Francisco Bay restoration has become the expectation, a difficult challenge still, but one everyone’s agreed to fight for.
Baylands Reborn: Introduction
June 29, 2013 •
Mrs. Semino once had to put on a pair of rubber boots to cook her Thanksgiving turkey. It was a long time ago, in the 1920s, when she and her husband lived by the banks of Sonoma Creek in a … Read more
Baylands Public Access
June 29, 2013 •
San Francisco Bay is surrounded by amazing wetlands and wetland restoration projects, but they can be hard to find. Here’s everything you need to get there.
Artists cast a net for safer oceans
June 14, 2013 •
A new art installation at the Marine Mammal Center puts the focus on ghost nets — lost fishing gear that wreaks havoc in the ocean — and on what we can all do to make our oceans healthier.
How would the Bay Area respond to its next oil spill?
June 14, 2013 •
Bay Nature takes a trip on a training exercise where California officials show off the latest techniques in oil spill containment in the San Francisco Bay.
In California oil spills, chemical dispersants treated with caution
June 13, 2013 •
In the event of a major oil spill, federal officials can’t make the same mistake in California as they did during the Deepwater Horizon spill.