Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
After dipping below its potential “extinction threshold,” the beloved butterfly population crashed again in 2020.
On October 7 California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state to create a new California Biodiversity Collaborative and conserve 30 percent of its land and coastal waters by 2030. Conservationists have celebrated the enshrinement of biodiversity preservation among the state’s priorities, as well as the state aligning with an international “30 by 30” goal shared…
Fewer human visitors this spring and summer allowed snowy plovers to relax on California beaches.
Pandemic, civil rights protests, fires, election, and oh yes, possibly the second driest calendar year on record.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental laws for the past four years. Decisions at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department and other agencies…
Is commercial agriculture part of Point Reyes National Seashore’s essential character?
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