Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Work in a tall building? Here’s something you can do this fall for birds. Get your building manager to participate in the Lights Out for Birds program to reduce the numbers of bird collisions into tall buildings during the fall migratory season, which has just begun. It’s as simple as closing the shades, or turning…
Fabled as a wily shape-shifter and trickster, the coyote’s latest magic trick has been turning cities into habitat, and San Francisco is one of its latest acts. Coyotes may have evolved in the plains and deserts of Mexico and North America, but they’ve rapidly expanded their range and are now making new homes for themselves…
Bringing you a bit of news on Friday. Happy Labor Day! It comes “once in a blue moon” — and that happens to be tonight. A rare blue moon will light up the sky. It won’t actually be blue. The lunar event means there are two full moons in the same calendar month. You’ll get…
The universe: sparse matter, mostly vacuum. Almost every year since 2004, Dave Grossman and Pat Mundy have installed a temporary scale model of the solar system on Stinson Beach to highlight the grand emptiness of much of the universe. Grossman and Mundy met as undergraduates at Berkeley where Grossman studied electrical engineering and computer science,…
It’s Labor Day weekend and you’ve stayed close to home to avoid the crowds and the traffic jams, so where can you go for a little nature adventure? The beach might be cold and foggy; inland might be too warm, with the grasses all brown and spiky. So where to go? Here, some handpicked hikes from the…
Your Wednesday news digest. Enjoy! A bobcat kitten may be the most photogenic victim of the fire that’s been raging in the Plumas and Lassen national forests. The kitten followed firefighters after turning up dazed and with troubled vision. She’s now in recuperating with burned paws and infected eyes at the Tahoe Wildlife Rehab Center. [San Francisco…
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