Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
The Regional Parks Botanic Garden, in Tilden Regional Park, is a 10-acre landscape of plants native to California. The garden includes ten sections corresponding to ten geographic regions of the state, all woven into a beautiful naturalistic landscape of trees, shrubs, perennials, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers. Location, Hours, and Contact Information The Regional Parks Botanic…
January-March 2007 WEB EXTRA: Rare and Endangered Mosses Many of us go through life barely noticing mosses and their cousins, liverworts and hornworts. It’s easy to miss bryophytes—the collective name for mosses, liverworts, and hornworts—painted on a tree trunk, growing on a rock, poking out of almost any spot that gets occasional moisture. Dan Norris,…
Since their listing as endangered in 1997, wild coho salmon have begun a slow but steady comeback to their native Central California streams.
A discovery pack is a simple tool that can greatly enhance your study of nature. A well-stocked pack will fit in with any field trip, whether to the beach, desert, forest, city neighborhood, vacant lot, park, or even grandma’s house for dinner. Using your skills of observation, questioning, and comparing, you can learn a lot…
In addition to the statewide measures and open-space protection efforts in Napa, Solano, and Santa Clara counties, citizens in Sonoma County and in the East Bay city of Fremont will also decide on critical habitat preservation measures in November. The Sonoma County Agriculture and Open Space Preservation District has protected 70,000 acres in the county…
WEBSITES California Oak Mortality Task Force www.suddenoakdeath.org or http://nature.berkeley.edu/comtf This is the most comprehensive source of information for the general public about sudden oak death and the pathogen that causes it. Useful pages on the site include: History and Background http://nature.berkeley.edu/comtf/html/history___background.html Chronology of disease discovery, research, and regulation Affected habitats Ecological threats posed by the…
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