Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area

  • Sierra Club leader to speak at Bay Nature’s Annual Awards Dinner

    Sierra Club leader to speak at Bay Nature’s Annual Awards Dinner

    On Sunday March 23rd, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune will speak at Bay Nature’s Annual Awards Dinner on the significance of wilderness in the 21st century. His talk is entitled “Wilderness at 50: Keeping It Real, Relevant, and Wild in 2014”.  Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune’s first trip out West – a family vacation…

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  • Creating a Drought-Resilient Garden with California Natives

    Creating a Drought-Resilient Garden with California Natives

    Over five years ago, Nalani and Anna Heath-Delaney, ditched their water guzzling lawn and planted a colorful and diverse native plant garden. They have since saved water, provided habitat for local species and created a native plant sanctuary. With the current drought, now is the perfect time to consider transitioning your garden and “going native.”

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  • Connecting the Dots for Pacific Marine Life

    Connecting the Dots for Pacific Marine Life

    National Park Service ecologist Sarah Allen has been looking at the “big picture” of marine ecosystem health since the mid-1970s when she worked as a field biologist on the Farallon Islands, then later in the ’80s and ’90s tracking seabirds, whales, and seals in the Gulf of the Farallones  for Point Reyes Bird Observatory (now…

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  • What’s Small, Ladybug-Like, and Golden All Over?

    What’s Small, Ladybug-Like, and Golden All Over?

    A few years ago a Bay Nature reader spotted something golden and shiny on her carpet. Suspecting it was a piece of jewelry she picked it up, only to find it was alive! What kind of beetle is golden, metallic and looks like a ladybug?

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  • A Wildlife Photographer’s Most Important Photography Advice: Set the Camera Aside

    A Wildlife Photographer’s Most Important Photography Advice: Set the Camera Aside

    Suzi Eszterhas will lecture about the rare animals she’s seen and her own adventures in wildlife photography on Wednesday night in the African Hall at the California Academy of Sciences.

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  • Complete Nest Failure at Martin Griffin Preserve’s Heronry

    Complete Nest Failure at Martin Griffin Preserve’s Heronry

    The great egret colony at Martin Griffin Preserve in West Marin failed to fledge any young egrets in 2013, the first time in the preserve’s 62-year history, leading Audubon Canyon Ranch to change public access to the preserve for 2014.

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