Getting in tune with nature
Glen Ellen resident Bernie Krause records sounds in nature to understand a habitat's biodiversity.
Pick Archives:Bay Nature Picks
Investigation finds State Parks deliberately hid some funds
The California Attorney General's office releases the results of its investigation into the State Parks Department over its funding fiasco.
Piecing together the Diablo landscape
On a warm autmn morning, a half-dozen volunteers are watering young native plants on a piece of land known as Marsh Creek IV, just outside Clayton. The land, on the...
Pinnacles, trash and shipping
SF proceeds with enviro review of shipping trash by rail to Yuba County after groups sue, and more Bay Area nature news.
Bumblebees like flower diversity, not asphalt
Want to help out the bumblebee population? Get rid of asphalt and plant a diversity of flower species. That’s the conclusion of a new study of a California native bumblebee...
Virginia rail peeks through reeds at Lake Merced
A Virginia rail made a surprise year-end appearance at Lake Merced in San Francisco.
Gateway to the Delta
I’m in another world from the moment I step into the East Bay Regional Park District’s Big Break Regional Shoreline. Here on the edge of the Delta in eastern Contra...
Land of the Salamander
North America has more kinds of salamanders--the tailed, mostly four-legged amphibians--than any other continent. Your backyard is probably full of them right now!
Welcoming in California’s new marine parks
Anyone who loves the California coast -- that would be everyone, right? -- should be toasting this week's big news.
A petition, an oil boom and a Douglas fir
Wild Emergency Services, an animal aid group, has started a petition to change way California Fish & Game deals with mountain lions in public places after Half Moon Bay cougar...
