Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Nerds for Nature has installed posts at several spots in the fire area, where you can take pictures and give them a hashtag to feed them into a slideshow documenting change on Mount Diablo.
Humboldt Squid have moved into and out of California, sometimes for years at a time, for centuries. Now an El Niño approaches the Pacific Coast, and squid researchers are waiting.
Botanist Heath Bartosh, co-founder of Nomad Ecology, gained an early appreciation for the rich botanical wealth of the Golden State.
For the first time in a century, the public will have access to two key sites along the Central Coast.
The West Coast’s native Olympia oyster serves an important role as an ecosystem builder with its ability to filter the water. But owing to reasons that are still somewhat unclear, over the last few millennia native oysters have largely disappeared from the San Francisco Bay.
Spotted and photographed on Mount Diablo’s Mary Bowerman Trail by Jane Huber, May 18.
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