Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
It’s certainly not hard to apply words like “outrageous” and “appalling” to the current scandal surrounding $54 million dollars in funding for state parks that had gone unspent and undiscovered for over ten years. But it’s not going to do our beleagured parks any good to engage in overheated rhetoric about corrupt and incompetent government…
Welcome to the new BayNature.org! We’ve just relaunched this site in a big way, and we’re pretty excited about what you’ll find here: A brand-new interactive trailfinder with 100 trails and maps, photos, and basic information on more than 400 local parks. We have about 100 more trails lined up in the queue to get into the…
Welcome to Bay Nature’s first News Digest post. We’ll be updating you regularly on the top nature news reported in the Bay Area with the hopes that you’ll feel connected to what’s going on around here. We do this by reading and culling news stories from dozens and dozens of sources each day, something we…
Inside the artificial wetlands of the San Francisco PUC’s new headquarters.
The co-founder of the influential nonprofit conservation group Save Mount Diablo, Arthur D. Bonwell, died at 85 at his home in Concord, California. The trained electrical engineer for Dupont made a second career in conservation, recognizing that the state was doing little to protect the lands in and around Mount Diablo. In 1971, he co-founded…
The city of Richmond is making progress is closing gaps along the San Francisco Bay Trail that have been practically inaccessible to the public. A key 1-mile linkage under the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge will allow pedestrians and bicyclists to get to Point Molate and the rest of the Point San Pablo Peninsula without having to…
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
