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Winter 2011

This very special tenth-anniversary issue features original work from many of our favorite authors, including Robert Hass, Rebecca Solnit, Greg Sarris, Jon Carroll, Wendy Tokuda, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, and others. We bring you winning photos from our People in Nature photo contest and interview Harold Gilliam, Bay Nature award winner and dean of local environmental journalism.

Cover illustration by Kathleen Lipinsky, emerylipinski.com.

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Issue Content

A Classroom in the Woods

Learning from Nature in the East Bay Parks
by | January 1, 2011

Abbotts Lagoon: October

by | January 1, 2011

Art for Auklets

by | January 1, 2011

Bluebelly

by | January 1, 2011

Geography of Hope Returns

by | January 1, 2011

Help for the Sparrows of Golden Gate Park

by | January 1, 2011

In Search of Mountain Plovers

by | January 1, 2011

Raptors and Windmills in an Era of Climate Action

by | January 1, 2011

Road vs. Stream in Niles Canyon

by | January 1, 2011

Early Wildflower Blooms Help Define our California “Winter”

by | January 1, 2011

Naturalist’s Notebook: How to Tell Grebes Apart

by | January 1, 2011

In the Third Kind of Fog

by | January 1, 2011

Last Dance on San Bruno Mountain

by | January 1, 2011

Letter From the Publisher

by | January 1, 2011

“Never Give Up!”

Harold Gilliam and the Birth of Environmental Journalism
by | January 1, 2011

On Mount Diablo

by | January 1, 2011

People in Nature Photo Contest Winners

by | January 1, 2011

Sticks and Stones Can Make a Home

by | January 1, 2011

Suburban Slough

by | January 1, 2011

The Ascent of Mount Burdell

by | January 1, 2011

The Crazy Broom Lady of the Oakland Hills

by | January 1, 2011

West Marin Night During Perseid Showers

by | January 1, 2011

Where are the Ringtails?

by | January 1, 2011