On October 7 California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state to create a new California Biodiversity Collaborative and conserve 30 percent of its land and coastal waters by 2030. Conservationists have celebrated the enshrinement of biodiversity preservation among the state’s … Read more
Tag: conservation
Perspective
Greening Communities for Equity and Sustainability: Inside and Out
A longtime parks director writes about changes the Bay Area needs to make
Environmental Justice
“Now is a Good Time to Hold Up a Mirror.” Bay Area Conservation Groups Say They Want to Become More Diverse. What’s Stopping Them?
Day to day, Kelli English works with National Parks Service staff and leaders to oversee services for the four National Parks historic sites in the East Bay. As Chief of Interpretation for the John Muir and Eugene O’Neill National Historic … Read more
Summer Issue 2020
In its Last Bankruptcy PG&E Promised California 140,000 Acres for Conservation. Where Did They All Go?
Some say a landmark conservation deal is now a “vision unfulfilled”
Spring Issue 2020
California’s Diablo Range and Mount Diablo
Mount Diablo State Park in Clayton. Trail: 7.7 mi, 2,208 ft elevation gain, loop
Stewardship
Save the Redwoods Reaches Deal for 564-Acre Cascade Creek Forest Near Año Nuevo
Save the Redwoods League has agreed on a deal to acquire 564 acres of redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains, creating a new connection from Big Basin to Año Nuevo State Parks and protecting the headwaters of Cascade Creek. … Read more
Perspective
How We Win on Climate and Conservation
When I joined Point Blue Conservation Science as its new CEO earlier this year, I did so with equal parts excitement and humility. Excitement because after many years working on conservation and climate change issues from Washington, DC to sub-Saharan … Read more
Spring Issue 2019
2019 Conservation Action Hero Robert Doyle Expanded the East Bay Parks
Robert Doyle often wonders what would have happened had John Muir simply explored but never written about the wilderness he loved. Over the course of his conservation career, Doyle has used the power of storytelling to secure funding, gain public … Read more
Spring Issue 2019
2019 Citizens Hero Lennie Roberts Helped Keep the Peninsula Open
If you’ve ever enjoyed a drive on that rugged stretch of California coast where Highway One winds south of Pacifica, past Half Moon Bay and down through Pescadero, you should probably thank Lennie Roberts. “Lennie is considered the sixth supervisor … Read more
Winter Issue 2019
Crows are Wicked Smart
Should an animal’s intelligence change the way we treat it?
