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For two years, scientists at UC Davis have been modeling a “Field of Dreams” hypothesis about bull kelp to understand what approaches could best help the recovery of the kelp...
Big Basin State Park is not the lush, shady ancient forest it once was. In August 2020, 97 percent of the old-growth forest nestled in the heart of the Santa...
The Presidio in San Francisco. Trail: 4.2 mi, 351 ft elevation gain, loop
Santore is known for Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, a self-described lowbrow approach to plant ecology.
Nine of the 20 largest wildfires in California in the last 110 years were started by lightning strikes, including the devastating Lightning Complex fires in August 2020 that burned more...
How do the trees synchronize their reproductive efforts? Oaks, the dominant tree genus throughout much of low- and mid-elevation, temperate California, are full of mysteries.
At almost every stage of life, the butterflies are threatened by climate change, habitat degradation, and increased use of neonicotinoid pesticides. At the same time, monarchs flourished in habitats that...
San Francisco Bay ropes, docks and pilings provide a home for abundant, colorful marine life.
How to identify individual cetaceans in the San Francisco Bay.
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