Never Mind the Game; Here’s a Superb Owl in San Jose
This is no mere Internet meme: the City of San Jose has a burrowing owl preserve, with hidden cameras, and it is spectacular.
Pick Archives:Bay Nature Picks
From the Bottom Up at Mountain Lake
With San Francisco's Mountain Lake once again clean enough to support native species, its managers are reintroducing the basic building blocks of a healthy ecosystem.
Learning to Love the Presidio’s Ancient Dune Ecosystem
Ecologists hope that by reviving a rare dune ecosystem, the public will come to appreciate it as much as the forest.
It’s a Big Bay With a Lot of Low-Lying Waterfront, and the Sea Level is Rising
Sea level rise forces hard decisions and creative thinking about the San Francisco Bay's crowded waterfront.
Why’s It So Hot If There’s No El Niño?
It's hot. And the next El Niño will likely blow away even 2014’s temperature record, locally, statewide, and globally.
California’s Drought, As Measured From the Sky
Up until recently, there were limited and fairly antiquated options on how to measure California's snowpack.
Mystery Substance Killing Seabirds in the East Bay
State investigators will begin testing a mystery substance that has killed or injured more than 200 seabirds in the San Francisco Bay.
Preserving Agriculture, Restoring a Watershed, and Getting Help from the Locals To Do It
On farmland near the Pajaro River, Point Blue, The Nature Conservancy, and a busload of school kids marry an idea about landscape restoration with an idea about the way the...
Are Humans Part of Wild Nature? Interview with M. Sanjayan
New documentary film series explores how humans and nature are codependent.
Gigantic Schools of Herring in the San Francisco Bay are a Winter Wonder to Behold
The pulses in this silver fish wave, reaching up to a mile long by a mile wide, represent perhaps the largest aggregations of animals you’ll ever find in Northern California.
