Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
With the heat of summer not yet upon us, now is the best time to take stock of ponds all over the Bay Area. In every part of the Bay Area, there are great hikes that take you to a pond or small lake that is likely home, or potential home at least, to the…
Richmond isn’t the only place where the Bay Trail is coming together. In fact, one of the longest continuous segments of Bay Trail will open later this year at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. A three-mile section now under construction will connect with existing trails to form a continuous 19-mile stretch of Bay Trail from…
Some threatened and endangered amphibians and reptiles are content to share habitat with cattle, as we reported in our April 2007 feature Islands in a Sea of Grass. Others, it seems, have been willing to coexist with another introduced species: golfers. However, that relationship now appears to be going sour in one Bay Area golf…
From the shores of Point Reyes to the Inner Coast ranges, our densely-populated metropolitan region has a rich natural heritage.
Humans aren’t the only creatures that flock to California to take advantage of our state’s mild winter climate. Millions of ducks, geese, and other migrating birds also make the Golden State their winter home.vWhether feeding, breeding, or just loafing, the waterfowl that migrate to the wetlands of Northern and Central California provide birdwatchers with an…
The Big Sur coast has always provided nature lovers with an abundance of breathtaking scenery. But one of the most majestic elements of this coastal landscape, the California condor, nearly disappeared entirely in the early 1980s. Down to as few as 22 individuals in 1982, the condor population became the subject of one of the…
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