On Site with Sue Gardner
Bay Area native Sue Gardner says her work on stewardship programs combines her two passions: people and nature. For almost 20 years, she's been running innovative programs that get diverse...
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.
Turning a Weedy Island into Prime Habitat in Richardson Bay
Can a pile of dredge spoils covered in a jumble of invasive weeds be transformed into an island paradise for shorebirds, songbirds, and seals? The folks at the Richardson Bay...
Crissy Field Youth Program Wins National Award
As the Crissy Field Center celebrates its 10th anniversary, the center continues to bridge the gap between urban youth and environmental education. In July 2011, the center's Inspiring Young Emerging...
Saving Bay Area Ecosystems, One Chorus Frog at a Time
If you happen to be in El Cerrito and hear a frog calling, or catch sight of a large yellow butterfly flitting through your yard, it might be Jim McKissock's...
From Bay to Ridge, Janet McBride Blazes New Trails
Janet McBride has spent the past 13 years championing the two region-wide trails that encircle the Bay Area, making her one of our great unsung heroes of human-powered outdoor recreation...
Private Land, Public Access in Sonoma County
Sonoma County’s 832-acre Bohemia Ranch has been eyed as a potential public park since the 1990s. With park funding hard to find, it seemed like access was a long way...
Sowing the Seeds of Restoration
Save the Bay turns 50 years old this year, and their native plant nurseries prove the organization is as vital as ever, with volunteers putting in thousands of hours growing...
Jenner Headlands to be Run by Land Trusts
When the Sonoma Land Trust acquired the Jenner Headlands, the best guess was that it would become a state park. Instead, the land trust will work with the Southern California-based...
Living Landscape Lives Large in South Bay
Even with state park closure looming, South Bay land trusts and philanthropists are thinking big with a major new initiative to protect 80,000 acres from San Benito County to San...
Ron Felzer’s Struggle to Stay in the Field
Longtime Merritt College teacher Ron Felzer helped blaze the trail of environmental education with hundreds of field seminars he's taught since the 1970s. Felzer is semi-retired now, but he and...
