Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Doesn’t get much better for eye candy than a butterfly on a flower, right?
A herd of elk and a grizzly bear make an appearance in Muir Woods in the opening scene of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Would such megafauna stage a comeback 10 years after humans are mostly killed off?
A new iPad app, Wild Bee Gardening, draws on the knowledge of native bee experts to bring native bee conservation and gardening into the digital realm.
Over a decade of close observation and research led to Kate Marianchild’s first book Secrets of the Oak Woodlands.
The resident sharks of the San Francisco Bay rely on healthy tidal wetlands.
After 12 years of study, an ambitious citizen science effort has recorded population figures for 34 different types of algae and invertebrates at 70 different monitoring sites. Sixty percent of the 4,000 participants have been high schoolers. Their work, scientists say, is a legitimate contribution to marine science.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
