The Many Faces of iNaturalist
Once a Berkeley student project, iNaturalist is a social network—and a scientific database. Now, the public departure of its cofounder highlights the challenge of balancing the two.
Tag: conservation
Editor’s Letter: Acre by Acre
Consider any single acre of land in the Bay Area today and all the lives it may have lived.
Summer 2026 Almanac: Fruiting Bodies
Life during summer … bears fruit.
Newsom Wants Prop 4 Funds for Golden Gate Fields. Some Local Conservationists Have Other Priorities.
“This timeline is moving quicker than anyone imagined,” says an East Bay parks rep.
Restoring Salt Ponds to Marshes Is a Win. Unless You’re a Snowy Plover.
Yet amid a sea of bad bird news, San Francisco Bay plovers are doing very nicely.
Sargent Ranch Is Protected. Who Will Steward It?
In January, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) purchased a 2,284-acre parcel on the southern slope of Santa Cruz Mountains, preserving a site where a proposed sand-and-gravel quarry was scrapped following a decade-long, Indigenous-led campaign opposing the project. It’s the third … Read more
25 Years of Change
A quarter century of hard work has restored nature to the San Francisco Bay Area in places where it was once unimaginable.
