Build a Wetland, Save the Frogs … If You Can Figure Out Where to Build It
A Berkeley group hopes to build 1,000 wetlands in the next 10 years to save amphibians. They need help.
Urban Nature
Wild Stories of an Unseen City
An excerpt from Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails, & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness, by Nathanael Johnson.
The Livermore Tarweed Lives Happily Ever After
The Livermore tarweed is indistinct, hairy, and smelly. It is also exceedingly rare and in imminent danger.
Finding Your Park with GGNRA’s Christine Lehnertz
GGNRA Superintendent Christine Lehnertz looks at the challenges and opportunities unique to the national park in San Francisco's backyard.
15 Years of Bay Nature: A Talk by Publisher David Loeb
Publisher David Loeb traces the roots of his attachment to nearby nature -- and why he started a magazine about it.
The Disappearing Language of Sparrows
San Francisco white-crowned sparrows have their own dialects. As the city gets louder, those dialects are disappearing.
Love Muir Woods? Park Service Asks: Please Stay Away
A reservation system for the popular redwood grove is coming in 2017. Until then, the Park Service urges residents to stay away.
Q&A With the Proprietor of the ‘Ladybug Hotel’
Jeremy Brautman describes the feeling of a "loveliness" of ladybugs, and explains how he decided to try and help the loveliness along.
Brown Pelicans Show Breeding Failure
About 100 California Brown Pelicans made an unusual appearance on the old wooden dock on the south side of Alameda Point. But only one of the pelicans could be identified as a one- or two-year-old.
The Front Line in California’s Mosquito Monitoring: Sentinel Chickens
In the heart of Silicon Valley, the most reliable technology we have for monitoring West Nile virus is a bird domesticated in the Stone Age.
