Local Heroes 2023: Stu Weiss, Conservation Action Award
Weiss’s research on checkerspot butterflies and their habitat has provided the bedrock on which efforts to protect Bay Area lands have been anchored. And he's helped build out a data...
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Connecting with Environmental Journalist Jon Christensen
The editor of BOOM, a new quarterly journal about California, speaks with Bay Nature about his latest project.
Butterflies in the Fog on a Peak in San Francisco
San Bruno Mountain State and County Park. Trail: 3.6 mi, 705 ft elevation gain, loop
Taking the Heat
Though we may not be able to detect it on a day-to-day basis, climate change has come to the Bay Area and is already leaving its mark on local ecosystems:...
The Checkerspot Comes Home
Contrary to common notions of autumn as a season of dying back, our fall rains often herald new beginnings. That’s especially true this fall at Edgewood County Park and Natural...
Coyote Valley: Another Drive-By Extinction?
As we report in The Checkerspot Comes Home, Coyote Ridge southeast of San Jose is one of the last refuges for the endangered bay checkerspot butterfly. A good deal of...
