Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Baseball fans collect souvenirs like squirrels collect acorns. There are the official ones: home run balls, foul balls, baseball cards (and the quest to get them autographed), commemorative pins, bobbleheads, hat-shaped ice cream bowls. Grown men and women exchange hard-earned pay for small scoops of “game-used dirt.” There are, also, the unofficial keepsakes. At the…
Newsom’s executive order allows fire reduction efforts to bypass CEQA ahead of fire season. Some fire agencies are seeking to take advantage of the opportunity.
Stepping onto the spanking new Pacheco Marsh trail near Martinez for the first time on May 1, I was struck by the contrast between nature and human industry all around.
When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious plans for restoration—but there are big challenges to manifesting the vision. Not least, how it will be paid for.
Last week, 90 of 155 Americorps fellows doing nature work across the Bay Area stopped work—leaving a hole that agencies, nonprofits, and universities can’t afford to fill. Aspiring young environmental professionals say they are struggling to figure out what’s next.
At a recent release, volunteers help a new batch of silvery blues adjust to city life.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
