‘Seal the Deal!’
Dr. Marty Griffin has been working for decades to protect open spaces and wildlife along the Marin and Sonoma coasts. In January 2011, Bay Nature recognized him with our first-ever...
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.
Putting Open Space on the Map
If you want to know something about getting around the Bay Area, ask Larry Orman, executive director of GreenInfo Network, board chair for Bay Nature, and the first director of...
Saving Land, From Hilltops to the Bay
For over 30 years, Lennie Roberts has been one of the Bay Area's leading voices for open space protection and against sprawl. Roberts has played a key role in many...
LEJ’s SF EcoCenter Wins EPA Environmental Justice Award
Nestled deep in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood among a tallow rendering plant, a wastewater treatment facility, a concrete plant, and one of the state's largest Superfund sites, the EcoCenter...
The Crazy Broom Lady of the Oakland Hills
Longtime television anchorwoman Wendy Tokuda now spends many days in the East Bay hills, finding endangered manzanitas and communing with pileated woodpeckers. All because of her obsession with an invasive...
Surrounded by Nature in San Francisco
Ever since an epiphany with pickleweed in Oakland as a kid, Asha Setty has wanted to learn as much as possible about native plants. She started working for the Golden...
San Jose a Trailblazer on Banning Single-Use Bags
Two weeks ago, Los Angeles supervisors voted to ban retailers from distributing single-use plastic bags in unincorporated parts of the county. Then on November 29, the governor argued for a...
“Wetlands Need All the Help They Can Get!”
In 1992, Amy Hutzel started as an intern at the nature center in Alviso, in the South Bay. Since then, she's been involved in the biggest wetlands restorations on the...
Book Review: A California Bestiary
A short, compelling series of essays and paintings of a dozen species of California wildlife from Rebecca Solnit and Mona Caron.
“New Farm” Threatens Tassajara Valley
In San Ramon, a November ballot measure related to a proposed housing development in the Tassajara Valley threatens open space and San Ramon’s urban limit line. Meanwhile, voters in Petaluma...
