Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Field work is supposed to be where ecologists get to play Indiana Jones. The reality with swing-dancing joke-cracking fish-loving UC Davis research scientist Jim Hobbs is somewhat different: wet, muddy, smelly, and mostly involving either waiting for leopard sharks or harvesting leopard shark vomit.
How much do we owe to native species we’ve eliminated from their home? Nature in the City is exploring the question with the reintroduction of vocal chorus frogs to San Francisco.
Wild pigs are uprooting unusual new areas of Mount Diablo this year.
The publisher of Heyday Books chats about the importance of keeping the poetry in nature writing.
Question: I have a lot of ladybugs in my living room and kitchen. Should I take them outside?
P ier 94 salt marsh is located at the end of a wide road with dirt piled high on either side, past two cement plants and a truck weighing station. It doesn’t seem like ideal bird habitat. From the road, on a gray Saturday morning in November, the area looks abandoned and barren. But there…
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