Bay Area Wild: Reflections on 50 Years of Wilderness Protection
In a world thoroughly worked over by humankind, wilderness is our term for those places that seem the least altered, the least managed. It identifies the rawer end of a...
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Tracking the Ghost Cat: Mountain Lions Remain Elusive in the East Bay
The Bay Area Puma Project team has been collaring mountain lions and monitoring remote motion-sensor cameras throughout the East Bay. It’s not easy tracking the elusive cats, but it’s vital...
In San Francisco, A Dying Forest Waits for Action
Mount Sutro’s once-thriving blue gum eucalyptus trees are dying. At the moment, though, there's no approved environmental impact report for maintenance, and in the absence of major work conditions are...
Making Their Mark
The ideas driving the environmental and social movements of the early 1970s gained a strong foothold in the East Bay Regional Park District, thanks in large part to a cohort...
Marsh Once More: The Bay Trail Takes Off at Hamilton Airfield
Looking out across the 650-acre project toward the distant Godzilla arm of the backhoe against the blue sky, I finally see on the ground what the planners and engineers have...
In Summer and Fall, the Pacific Ocean Shines at Night with a Living Light Show
Another phenomenon, equally fabulous but much lower in the food chain, can also occur in the ocean at this time of year: bioluminescence, or “living light.”
It’s Fun! It’s Science! It’s a Bioblitz!
On the last weekend of March, 9,000 people armed with binoculars, butterfly nets, cameras, and smartphones, spread out over an archipelago of national park lands from Point Reyes in Marin...
On Its 40th Anniversary, the Farallon Wilderness Remains Uniquely Wild
Each wilderness area has its own unique essence, and the Farallon Islands' might just be how utterly, unbelievably wild it is.
The Clapper Rail Calls at Dawn
A Bay Nature special feature about weird birds, hardy biologists, and the difficult methods we employ to move past what our eyes and ears tell us and see something like...
Impressionism, Pointillism, Statistical Processing: Finding Truths in the Patterns of Nature
The beauty of science is that it really does search for truth. It is easy to follow the tracks and trails of one or several of nature’s patterns and yet...
