The official bird of San Francisco has been AWOL in the city for years. But the Presidio hopes to change that.
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Wildlife
This Is a Story About A Super-Cute Long-tailed Weasel Spotted in San Francisco’s Presidio for the First Time in a Century…
Erica Spotswood, the science director of the San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Urban Nature Lab, got her dissertation studying seed dispersal on the French Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Moorea. A kind of low-growing fruit tree named Miconia calvescens had arrived … Read more
Winter Issue 2003
Drawing with a Local Palette
If not for an unassuming wire fence, you might mistake Judith Larner Lowry’s garden for one of nature’s own. The tall wooden gate resists slightly, then yields, permitting the visitor to step into a quiet community of coastal scrub. Undulating … Read more
Archive, Wildlife
Quail Habitat Restoration Around the Bay
When Christmas Bird Counts revealed that the quail population in San Francisco was plummeting, the Golden Gate Audubon Society (GGAS) launched its Save the Quail campaign. Together with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Presidio Trust, GGAS has … Read more
