Navigating cities: survival skills for the urban coyote
One recent sunny morning a young coyote lounged on the fairway of San Francisco’s Lincoln Park Golf Course, unphased by the whizzing golf balls and carts. Over the past decade...
Wildlife
State and Federal Officials Explain Plan to Avoid 12th Year of Steelhead Die-offs in Pescadero
On Wednesday, September 12, officials from several state and federal agencies will hold a public briefing to explain a new, if low-tech, effort to head off a twelfth straight year...
Key to Wildlife Photography is Knowing Your Subject
Sebastian Kennerknecht has eight shots in our upcoming October-December issue, more than any other photographer this time around. Partly that’s because he agreed to go out and shoot at the...
Urban coyotes in our midst
Fabled as a wily shape-shifter and trickster, the coyote’s latest magic trick has been turning cities into habitat, and San Francisco is one of its latest acts. Coyotes may have...
Vaux’s swift ‘tornado’ descends on Healdsburg school
What the Vaux swift lacks in size it makes up for in numbers. The smallest species of the swift family has chosen a chimney at a boarding school in Healdsburg...
Setting the record straight on bats and rabies
As fascinating as bats are, they, like all wild creatures, come with a warning label. While rabies is far from on the rise among humans and domesticated animals in America,...
All Abuzz on Muddy Hollow Trail
“Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.” —Mary Oliver See this hike mapped: Muddy Hollow...
Regional Parks Foundation
Some Bay Area kids have never seen a star in the sky or even know what a tree is. The Regional Parks Foundation is working to change that. We recently...
A Batty Summer Night Out
Move over, birds. There is another flying – albeit more elusive– species drawing summer crowds. Warmer weather and longer twilights make it ideal to watch some of the coolest little...
Out and about with California quail
The California quail is the inspiration for a San Francisco restaurant that just made America’s top new eating house — the whimsically named State Bird Provisions. Fortunately, the official state...
