American Wilderness: Back to the Future in Vallejo
Environmental groups gathered in downtown Vallejo over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, to ponder the meaning of the word and to filter the concept...
Category: Stewardship
The San Francisco Bay Area is bejeweled with hundreds of parks and open space preserves as well as a rich set of laws and policies meant to ensure the survival of vulnerable species and ecosystems. Real people made this happen through a dedicated call to stewardship.
The Only Plant of Its Kind, Living Life in a San Mateo Agricultural Field
In a single agricultural field on the San Mateo County coast, the entire known world population of Ornduff's meadowfoam is thriving.
Replanting the Bay’s Underwater Meadows
A new effort has been launched to restore 70 acres of native eelgrass in the San Francisco Bay, paid for with Cosco Busan oil spill money.
Gardening for Wild Bees? Now There’s an App for That
A new iPad app, Wild Bee Gardening, draws on the knowledge of native bee experts to bring native bee conservation and gardening into the digital realm.
The Scientists are Amateurs, But Their Coastal Research Makes a Splash
After 12 years of study, an ambitious citizen science effort has recorded population figures for 34 different types of algae and invertebrates at 70 different monitoring sites. Sixty percent of...
TBC3: Wrestling Climate Change to the Ground
It’s not “news” to Bay Nature readers that climate change is in the process of giving a serious thwack to living systems. But what’s less well understood is how plants...
Bay Area Wild: Reflections on 50 Years of Wilderness Protection
In a world thoroughly worked over by humankind, wilderness is our term for those places that seem the least altered, the least managed. It identifies the rawer end of a...
In San Francisco, A Dying Forest Waits for Action
Mount Sutro’s once-thriving blue gum eucalyptus trees are dying. At the moment, though, there's no approved environmental impact report for maintenance, and in the absence of major work conditions are...
Making Their Mark
The ideas driving the environmental and social movements of the early 1970s gained a strong foothold in the East Bay Regional Park District, thanks in large part to a cohort...
Marsh Once More: The Bay Trail Takes Off at Hamilton Airfield
Looking out across the 650-acre project toward the distant Godzilla arm of the backhoe against the blue sky, I finally see on the ground what the planners and engineers have...
