Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
In mid-November 2021, a great storm begins brewing in the central Pacific Ocean north of Hawai‘i. Especially warm water, heated by the sun, steams off the sea surface and funnels into the sky. This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. A tendril of this floating moisture sweeps…
“Nobody’s got our kind of re-entry program that mixes soil, re-entry, healing, and good pay,” says Planting Justice’s operations manager, Lynn Vidal.
Stories of the birds and the beasts, plus plants, protists, and fungi. The whales versus the crabbers, a shortage of seeds, an unexpected lake, kelp babies; dirt bikers, vaxxed condors, the strange feet of coots. All here.
The money is meant to fix longstanding tree-cover gaps in disadvantaged neighborhoods—but it’s a fraction of what’s needed.
The official bird of San Francisco has been AWOL in the city for years. But the Presidio hopes to change that.
Though, faced with freedom, Condor 1139 and his fellow juveniles take their sweet time to step across the threshold. “We’re on condor time,” says a program manager.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
