Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area

  • Hearst Castle, a meteor and SF parks app

    Hearst Castle, a meteor and SF parks app

    Hearst Castle waived more than $600,000 in private event entry fees to select groups even as state parks was crushed with budget shortfalls, and more nature news.

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  • An Outdoor Bill of Rights for Kids

    An Outdoor Bill of Rights for Kids

    Some people work full time on behalf of environmental education. Carol Johnson works double-time. As both the Assistant General Manager of Public Affairs for the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) and the Executive Director of the Regional Parks Foundation, her hours are filled both with the “forest” and the “trees”, the big picture and…

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  • A Letter from Istanbul

    A Letter from Istanbul

    Sean FitzHoward, winner of our 2012 Local Environmental Hero Award for Youth Engagement, recently wrote us about her experience aboard an oceanic research vessel over the summer. It was time well-spent! Dear David and Bay Nature Staff, I just wanted to share some pictures of my summer with you. For five weeks this summer, I…

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  • Moscone Center, sandbagging and the Yellow Pages

    Moscone Center, sandbagging and the Yellow Pages

    The Moscone Center achieves LEED status, a SF supervisor wants to change CEQA to avoid “sandbag” tactics, danger ahead for the Yellow Pages ban, and more.

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  • Wacky Jacky Still On the Water, Speaking Up for the Fish

    Wacky Jacky Still On the Water, Speaking Up for the Fish

    Jacqueline Douglas has captaineered a fishing ship in the San Francisco Bay for 40 years, and is fighting to save salmon so they’re still left to fish.

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  • Amy Meyer: “All our gains are temporary”

    Amy Meyer: “All our gains are temporary”

    An interview with the “Mother of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.”

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