Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alden Olmsted has been MIA since last year’s state parks funding scandal, quietly working on a documentary he hopes will change the public’s consciousness.
Here are selected photos from the Bay Nature Publisher’s Circle hike at Rockville Trails with Solano Land Trust on the sunny day of May 11, 2013. Our hike of approximately five miles through quintessential inner coast range oak woodlands and grasslands afforded us expansive views of the surrounding hills and valleys. [Photos by David Loeb,…
Happy Mother’s Day. Perhaps we can learn a thing or two from the mothers around you.
Stewart Gilbert of San Rafael writes to ask: “Who makes these homes built out of sticks? They’re very common at China Camp. From a wood rat of some sort? The sticks can be large, requiring strength to pile up. I’ve never seen any sign of habitation or fresh construction. And they occur at both the…
Have you ever seen a butterfly emerge from its pupa? Now’s your chance.
Rick Lewis evokes the phrase, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Where other people see industry and ugliness, he finds the bright and the beautiful. Where other people see steel yards, he spots great blue herons. A self-taught photographer whose work has appeared in at least half of the 50 issues of Bay…
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
