In the San Francisco Bay Area, slices of nature pop up in unexpected places.
Residents of the Bay Area’s nine counties have passed a $12-per-year parcel tax to raise $500 million toward wetlands restoration and other Bay shoreline improvements over the next 20 years in what will be a historic influx in funding for the Bay.
A Berkeley group hopes to build 1,000 wetlands in the next 10 years to save amphibians. They need help.
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 is indistinct, hairy, and smelly. It is also exceedingly rare and in imminent danger.
GGNRA Superintendent Christine Lehnertz looks at the challenges and opportunities unique to the national park in San Francisco's backyard.
Publisher David Loeb traces the roots of his attachment to nearby nature -- and why he started a magazine about it.
San Francisco white-crowned sparrows have their own dialects. As the city gets louder, those dialects are disappearing.
A reservation system for the popular redwood grove is coming in 2017. Until then, the Park Service urges residents to stay away.
Jeremy Brautman describes the feeling of a "loveliness" of ladybugs, and explains how he decided to try and help the loveliness along.
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.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
