Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
California’s first State Park burned in the 2020 CZU Lightning Fires. Now conservation groups want it to rebuild as the model of state parks for the future.
Can, or should, regional agencies intervene in a city’s development decision?
In at least one tree species, scientists say the culprit appears to be a fungal pathogen.
Cars and bikes kill 5,000 newts every year on Alma Bridge Road. It’s an avoidable tragedy.
The splash of green on the ashen landscape was unexpected. Marc Hoshovsky, a naturalist retired from a career with California state agencies, was reviewing a satellite photo of areas burned in the LNU Complex fire last fall, hoping to tease out insights into its trajectory across the lands around Lake Berryessa. This landscape, on the…
In the early 1990s, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reviewed the status of a rare coastal sand dune plant called the San Francisco lessingia, which grows only in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. The background the service collected was grim: 90 percent of the plant’s habitat had been destroyed since European settlement.…
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