Navigating cities: survival skills for the urban coyote
One recent sunny morning a young coyote lounged on the fairway of San Francisco’s Lincoln Park Golf Course, unphased by the whizzing golf balls and carts. Over the past decade...
Urban Nature
Critical habitat in SF to protect Franciscan manzanita
Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added the Franciscan manzanita to the federal endangered species list and proposed new critical habitat in San Francisco for this famous flowering...
Urban coyotes in our midst
Fabled as a wily shape-shifter and trickster, the coyote’s latest magic trick has been turning cities into habitat, and San Francisco is one of its latest acts. Coyotes may have...
This Labor Day Weekend … Take a Hike!
It’s Labor Day weekend and you’ve stayed close to home to avoid the crowds and the traffic jams, so where can you go for a little nature adventure? The beach...
Vaux’s swift ‘tornado’ descends on Healdsburg school
What the Vaux swift lacks in size it makes up for in numbers. The smallest species of the swift family has chosen a chimney at a boarding school in Healdsburg...
Regional Parks Foundation
Some Bay Area kids have never seen a star in the sky or even know what a tree is. The Regional Parks Foundation is working to change that. We recently...
Nature for free, David’s best picks
For the sake of saving money or living more sustainably, the “staycation” is becoming ever more popular. But what can you do to have fun when keeping close to home?...
Rare bluebird sightings bring happiness in a Berkeley park
Birds are singing. Children are laughing and playing in patches of sunlight. And I am strolling through large fields of grass here at Berkeley’s San Pablo Park, aiming my camera...
Paths with a purpose
On Sunday, La Loma Path was added to the network of approximately 140 walkways that meander between houses and streets in the Berkeley hills. The network of green passageways make...
Scoring nature in San Francisco
You may have heard of Walk Score, the walkability index that everyone from real estate agents to smart growth advocates use to assess how pedestrian friendly the area is around...
