A new look at nature in San Francisco.
Tag: Nature in the City
Botany, Kids and Nature, Stewardship, Urban Nature
To Save a Park in San Francisco’s Bayview, Advocates Turn to Citizen Science “With a Mission”
Development could wipe out one of the Bayview’s few open space areas. Nature in the City hopes knowing more about what lives there can stop the construction.
Stewardship, Wildlife
San Francisco Mulls Commercial Butterfly Release Ban
San Francisco may become the first U.S. city to ban the release of commercially raised butterflies at ceremonies such as weddings, funerals, and charity events.
Parks
Do the Presidio’s New Dog Walking Rules Go Far Enough?
Limits on commercial dog walkers in the Presidio has some nature lovers questioning: Should they be allowed at all?
Art and Design, Wildlife
EndangerBus Feature: Mission Blue Butterfly
If you’re lucky some spring day in a few small patches of land near San Francisco, you may catch the glint of a male mission blue butterfly’s iridescent wings. If you are so fortunate, thank the determined conservationists who’ve been working to protect a small butterfly from big threats.
Urban Nature
Next Frontier for Restoration: Your Backyard
Environmental action often hinges on what not to do at home: don’t leave lights on, don’t bring home plastic bags, don’t use pesticides. But what about actively creating a wildlife habitat right outside your backdoor? San Franciscans will soon have help doing just that, from the nonprofit Nature in the City, which will offer backyard habitat services.
Urban Nature
“Nature Belongs in Our Cities”
Ruth Gravanis is a long-time advocate for the protection and restoration of San Francisco’s natural ecosystems. In her efforts to preserve these precious remnants, she has volunteered countless hours with many organizations, from the Friends of Candlestick Point, to the Sierra Club to Nature in the City. She’s currently advocating for the rich and varied native habitats of Yerba Buena Island, and for sustainable development of the island.
Stewardship
Reimagining the Twin Peaks Bioregion
When the fog rolls in at Twin Peaks on a summer evening, the city recedes, and it gets a bit easier to imagine a 10-mile path connecting natural open space from Crissy Field through Twin Peaks and Glen Canyon down to Candlestick Point. That image occupies Claire Beyer’s mind, and it’s the ultimate goal of her project, known as the Twin Peaks Bioregional Parks Project.
Spring Issue 2010
Counting Butterflies
On June 7, butterfly lovers in San Francisco will be out taking a count, and you can help.
Spring Issue 2009
Yerba Buena Island Habitat Restoration
In a scorching Indian summer day in 1886, three to four thousand people climbed the steep goat trails to the summit of Yerba Buena Island, the 100-acre natural island between San Francisco and the East Bay. A San Francisco newspaperman … Read more
