Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Conservation groups say the environmental assessment avoids considering environmental justice or marine life
I’m not usually masochistic. But then I spent three months this winter trying to observe extremely elusive short eared owls in a busy park in the inner Bay Area. (I’ll omit the location in order to preserve a semblance of their privacy.) From this I learned patience, frustration, and futility. Each outing was a Zen…
It’s hard not to wonder if maybe it’s the people that have changed, and not the animals.
During the statewide COVID-19 shelter-in place-order, tens of thousands of Bay Area residents have sought refuge in the region’s parks—on bike paths, trails and beaches. But that desire has, according to local officials, run afoul of public health. Last week, in response to complaints and an outpouring of social media outrage, governor Gavin Newsom announced…
Parks as sanctuaries and refuges in times of crisis.
When Kyle Van Houtan, the chief scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, first began publishing research in the 1990s, he had to physically mail a typed manuscript in an envelope to a scientific journal, with a copy for each reviewer. It was a slower process, for a much smaller research world. Now, with the proliferation…
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