Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Editor’s note On a Saturday evening in late October, my boyfriend and I were walking around César Chávez Park in Berkeley when we came across a man with a camera and tripod near the Burrowing Owl Sanctuary. I asked him
The camping shortage is brutal, and the latest federal lands chaos doesn’t help. Streamlined permitting could help more Californians go camping—and rural landowners to care for their properties.
The Alameda whipsnake is a true local. Yet it remains a stranger to us—which makes protecting it trickier.
I thought State Route 37 was awful, until I looked up.
A problem lake was doing pretty well this year. Then came a series of unfortunate water-quality events.
Picture a giant Rubik’s cube that costs $6–11 billion to solve. That’s State Route 37.
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