Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
A derelict fishing vessel has finally been removed from a Sonoma County beach, after nine years. Waiting to do the cleanup more than doubled the cost.
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?
All 16 Bay Area “critical habitat” groves in a proposed federal threatened listing include eucalyptus. How do we protect a native that now depends on a non-native to survive?
Trump has pulled back big parts of Biden’s signature climate laws. But BIL and IRA have already awarded at least $1.4 billion to Bay Area nature.
Bay Nature staff in 2023 began to follow money for San Francisco Bay Area nature from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. First, we pored through White House data on the programs Congress funded to find ones related
BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area has topped $1 billion, according to Bay Nature’s most recent tally for our Wild Billions project.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
