Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Seen and photographed by Judith Bush on the Serpentine Loop Trail in Edgewood Park in Redwood City, March 23.
Emmy-award-winning filmmaker and marine scientist David McGuire has not only swum with sharks, he’s swum FOR them. As founder and executive director of the Sausalito-based marine research and advocacy organization Sea Stewards, McGuire started the locally popular fundraisers “Swim for the Sharks” and “Run for the Sharks”. His newer project, Shark Stewards, focuses on the…
Question: Will newts, frogs and salamanders be out in full force in the Bay Area this spring?
Black rails are one of the most secretive of birds. But new research is showing that the scurrying marshland species can pick up and move if it must.
A Berkeley researcher is using chamise seeds collected from Mount Diablo this fall to explore the plant’s response to fire.
In the Presidio’s Mountain Lake, as this sequence of photos shows, there are some ferocious predators lurking in the watery depths.
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