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The splash of green on the ashen landscape was unexpected. Marc Hoshovsky, a naturalist retired from a career with California state agencies, was reviewing a satellite photo of areas burned...
In the early 1990s, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reviewed the status of a rare coastal sand dune plant called the San Francisco lessingia, which grows only in...
A naturalist on the "flowers of winter"
Rare and once thought extinct, the dawn redwood is an ancient relative of the more familiar coast redwood.
Ten days ago the state set new heat records and brush fires broke out. Burn areas in the Santa Cruz Mountains rekindled. Then, over the last three days, a 2,000-mile-long...
Huge crowds are harvesting mussels and other invertebrates. Could this damage the much-beloved reef?
Can volunteer scuba divers start a turnaround for Northern California kelp forests?
In the beginning, fire burned the world. Don Hankins' Plains Miwok ancestors passed on this understanding of fire through generations, and he draws from it as a traditional cultural practitioner...
The Botanic Garden Bird Survey Team has recorded all of the birds they’ve observed in this corner of Tilden Regional Park, specifically tracking which species visit and when, what they...
Photos of nine birds the Botanic Garden Survey Team has spotted in the garden in the last few years.
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