SF to Shift Street Tree Care to Property Owners
Due to looming city budget cuts, SF Mayor Ed Lee recently produced a budget package that cut $300,000 from street tree care. The proposal would shift the city’s responsibility for...
Urban Nature
SF Aims to Make City Safer for Birds
Every year in North America, a billion birds die by colliding with windows, buildings, and communication towers. Many of these deaths could be avoided by doing things like tinting windows...
Sharp Park Debate Hastens Citywide Biodiversity Policy
The ongoing debate over protected species at San Francisco's Sharp Park golf course in Pacifica seems to have accelerated a long-simmering effort to enact a citywide biodiversity policy. But with...
Oakland Zoo Expansion Debate Continues
The Oakland Zoo sits at the edge of Interstate 580, occupying the western corner of Knowland Park. At 45 acres, the zoo makes up less than one tenth of the...
Big Birds in the Big City
When not visiting her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, to "perfect her accent," Nancy DeStefanis is helping kids discover nature through San Francisco Nature Education, the grassroots environmental education organization...
Help for the Sparrows of Golden Gate Park
Every September, people flock to Golden Gate Park's Sharon Meadow to enjoy the arias sung during Opera in the Park. But there is another free concert at the other end...
EndangerBus Feature: Rapid Transit
Imagine a time when buses and streetcars and trains are everywhere in San Francisco, when everyone takes transit and almost no one owns a private car. This was close to...
Next Frontier for Restoration: Your Backyard
Environmental action often hinges on what not to do at home: don't leave lights on, don't bring home plastic bags, don't use pesticides. But what about actively creating a wildlife...
“Nature Belongs in Our Cities”
Ruth Gravanis is a long-time advocate for the protection and restoration of San Francisco's natural ecosystems. In her efforts to preserve these precious remnants, she has volunteered countless hours with...
Book Review: The Place that Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
This far-reaching anthology of poems is a lovely collection that speaks to what it is to be natural in the Bay Area.
