The San Francisco Bay is our region's dominant geographic feature.

Big Break wildlife

Gateway to the Delta

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I’m in another world from the moment I step into the East Bay Regional Park District’s Big Break Regional Shoreline. Here on the edge of the Delta in eastern Contra Costa County, birds sing and soar overhead, cottonwood leaves rustle … Read more

Richard and Judith Selby Lang

The Ghost Below at The Marine Mammal Center

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Special Art Exhibit Premiere: The Ghost Below at The Marine Mammal Center Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012 – December 31, 2013 Time: 10 am – 5 pm, daily Approximately 100,000 marine mammals and nearly 1 million seabirds become an entangled … Read more

Claire Schoen, Web Storyteller

Documenting the rising tide

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Since the 1970s, Claire Schoen has been producing environmental documentaries in a variety of formats, from photography to film to radio. She’s recently expanded her repertoire to take advantage of online opportunities as a “web storyteller.” Her current project, RISE: Climate Change … Read more

Deciding the Fate of Searsville Dam

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San Franciscans voted in a landslide against an effort to study the removal of Hetch Hetchy. A few dozen miles south, at Stanford, another campaign aims to remove the much smaller Searsville Dam, which blocks steelhead spawning while also creating wetland habitat.

Alma at India Basin

Year of the Bay sets sail

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On November 1, the historic ship the Alma set sail from the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park on the north end of the city, bound for its birthplace, Hunter’s Point, which it hadn’t visited for several decades. The Alma … Read more