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...
Wildlife
Winter Wildlife Watching
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and nothing melts the heart like the sight of a newborn marine mammal pup. How about a thousand of them? That's how many...
Kids Counting Birds in the Canal
The annual Christmas Bird Count is the longest-running bird study in the world. But it's not exactly kid-friendly. So Wendy Dalia of Richardson Bay Audubon Center spearheaded Marin County's first-ever...
Butterflies in the Fog on a Peak in San Francisco
San Bruno Mountain State and County Park. Trail: 3.6 mi, 705 ft elevation gain, loop
Sticks and Stones Can Make a Home
"Home"--the word evokes many images: memories of your childhood abode or the smell of a home-cooked meal. Animals, too, have different ideas of home--nursery, fortress, or merely a place to...
Where are the Ringtails?
Michael Ellis declares that ringtails register a 9.9 on the cuteness scale, and they were reputed to shack up with miners during the Gold Rush. Yet longtime field biologist Wendy...
Art for Auklets
Just a thousand yards off the San Mateo coast sits one of the most densely populated places in the Bay Area, with hundreds of residents sharing nine rocky acres, all...
Bluebelly
Greg Sarris, currently Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, grew up in Santa Rosa, left for many years, and has now resettled on Sonoma Mountain. The bluebellies were...
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...
In Search of Mountain Plovers
Ninety percent of the world population of 8,000 to 10,000 mountain plovers winter in California after traveling from their breeding grounds in Montana and Colorado. Mountain plovers, now listed as...
