Lawns, the 49ers and beachgrass
San Francisco residents pave over front lawns for parking with disregard for need of permeable surfaces, and other Bay Area nature news.
Pick Archives:Bay Nature Picks
Planting in memory of MLK
What's native plant restoration have to do with MLK Day? Maybe not a whole lot, unless you spend it on the MLK Regional Shoreline planting seven varieties of wetland species.
What, exactly, is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
From the journal of Brian Kallen, who describes his journey through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Was MLK an environmentalist?
Martin Luther King, Jr. predated the environmental movement, but his words show he respected the natural world.
Killer whale, salamander tunnels and aquariums
Killer whale travels 2,000 miles in 2 weeks from Puget Sound to Point Reyes, and more Bay Area nature news.
Meet The Smallest Sandpipers of the San Francisco Bay
Our two local sandpipers are cute as buttons, hard to tell apart, and eat primordial ooze. What's not to love?
Crabber gets $10,000 fine for setting traps in marine park
Apparently fishing in a state marine reserve is no light matter. A commercial crabber gets nabbed lowering 100 traps in a Sonoma County marine reserve.
Song of the Meadowlark in Solano County
The Solano Land Trust's King-Swett Ranches are great destinations for Solano County hiking: amazing views and a sense of seclusion in between Benicia, Vallejo, and Fairfield.
Footage of elephant seal pups nursing, and more
Nature photographer David Cruz sent in these amazing pics and a video of nursing pups from his recent trip out to Ano Nuevo State Reserve.
New records set in Bay Area’s Christmas bird counts
The annual Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count, the longest running citizen science survey in the world, has finished up in the Bay Area with some important findings.
