Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
In a Facebook post today, Save Mount Diablo writes that this is the best wildflower season many of them have ever seen. Recent sightings include fire poppies and whispering bells, and the rare Kellogg’s climbing snapdragon, Antirrhinum kelloggii, which had only been recorded twice in Contra Costa County or the East Bay before, both times on…
An expert in rare plants, Heath Bartosh is especially interested in “fire followers,” plants whose seeds stay buried in the ground until heat or smoke stimulates germination. These annuals flourish for one to three years. And then they’re gone—until the next fire.
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then and have known ever since that there was something new to me in those eyes, something known only to her and to the mountain.” — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac On Earth Day 2014,…
How do you relocate a 1,000-pound bull? Wildlife officials truck California’s “homegrown elk” to new sanctuaries.
United States Interior Secretary Sally Jewell took in the view from the summit of Kreiger Peak to highlight the plan that helped preserve the east Contra Costa peak.
The California Academy of Sciences acquired the nature-cataloguing tool iNaturalist in late April in a merger of two of the Bay Area’s most prominent faces of public science.
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