Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area

  • Have Your Say in 50 Years of Restoration

    Have Your Say in 50 Years of Restoration

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be hosting two public workshops in March to explain and hear comments on a 50-year plan for restoring the San Francisco and Suisun Bays, which have lost 90 percent of their wetlands. Find out how you can take part in the restoration…

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  • Pinole Academy Connects Creeks, Students, and Teachers

    Pinole Academy Connects Creeks, Students, and Teachers

    Since 1999, students at Pinole Valley High School’s Environmental Studies Academy have been taking their college prep program through an environmental lens and getting a crash course in community action along the way. They’re partnering with other groups to provide environmental services that affect their whole human and biotic community.

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  • Two Land Deals Protect Redwoods, Murrelets, and the Skyline Trail

    Two Land Deals Protect Redwoods, Murrelets, and the Skyline Trail

    In just one conversation with Reed Holderman, it’s easy to tell that he loves his job. And why shouldn’t he? As executive director of the Sempervirens Fund, he gets to help save landscapes for generations to come. With two recent land deals, the fund has come a step closer to its goal of connecting all…

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  • Development Threatens San Bruno Mountain Butterflies

    Development Threatens San Bruno Mountain Butterflies

    It’s an old story. Another species that once flourished is being pushed to extinction by modern human encroachment. The callippe silverspot has been gradually pushed into a few remaining islands of habitat, including San Bruno Mountain south of San Francisco. Critics say a long-simmering development proposal threatens that habitat.

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  • California Coho Salmon In Dire Straits

    California Coho Salmon In Dire Straits

    The collapse of Central California Coast coho salmon population is imminent, according to a report by the National Marine Fisheries in late December 2009. Numbers of returning coho may be too low to support a viable population.

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  • Protesting Burrowing Owl Eviction

    Protesting Burrowing Owl Eviction

    An ongoing controversy over the displacement of burrowing owls in Antioch brought out 40 local residents and others from across the Bay Area on Sunday for a march to protest the eviction and push for better protections for the owls across the state.

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