Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area

  • The Sounds of the Sea, Performed

    The Sounds of the Sea, Performed

    A team of artists has collected more than 1,000 recordings of people sharing their thoughts about the oceans. Hear voices from from scientists and schoolchildren, people in the United States, Europe, Asia. A sound collage from the collection premieres at Cal Academy on June 3.

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  • Lend a Hand for Your Local Trail

    Lend a Hand for Your Local Trail

    On Mother’s Day you call your mother. On Father’s Day you thank your dad for his guidance and support. On National Trails Day you…pick up a shovel?

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  • Deciding Point Molate’s Future

    Deciding Point Molate’s Future

    On May 18, the Richmond City Council voted to extend for 10 months an agreement with a developer proposing a casino at Point Molate, a former Navy fuel depot near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Local activists and architects are working on their own alternative vision for the space.

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  • Presidio Habitats: Big Art, Made for Wildlife “Clients”

    Presidio Habitats: Big Art, Made for Wildlife “Clients”

    Artists, naturalists, and National Parks officials come together to create a remarkable new exhibit of installation art made for “animal clients,” open at the Presidio from May 16, 2010, though May 15, 2011.

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  • New Web Tool to Find Parks

    New Web Tool to Find Parks

    California’s State Parks Department and San Francisco-based nonprofit GreenInfo Network on Friday announced a new web-based tool for finding parks, campgrounds, and trails all across the state.

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  • A Most Unlikely Refuge in Pittsburg

    A Most Unlikely Refuge in Pittsburg

    At the western edge of the Delta lies a most unexpected gathering of wildlife. Here peregrines hunt from tall towers, beavers lodge in protected waters, and hummingbirds nest in the least likely of spots. What was once among the busiest, noisiest, smelliest, most crowded, most unsafe places to earn the name “habitat” has become a…

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