The plants that grow on this 2,400-acre island amid a sea of city—including these four endemic manzanita species—help make San Bruno Mountain a world biological hotspot.
Tag: San Bruno Mountain
Stewardship, Urban Nature
Fighting to Save, and Popularize, San Bruno Mountain
David Schooley and San Bruno Mountain Watch have done much to save San Bruno Mountain. Now they want to share it with the world.
Fall Issue 2013
Naturalist’s Notebook: Discover the Jungle on San Bruno Mountain
Hidden biodiversity beneath a canopy of coyote bush on a windswept ridge of San Bruno Mountain
Fall Issue 2012
Fight for Daly City Dunes
Remnant dunes in Daly City hint at the long-lost sands of San Francisco. And the folks at San Bruno Mountain Watch would like to keep it that way, despite proposals to build houses here.
History
SF Premiere of San Bruno Mt. Film “Butterflies & Bulldozers”
Many people living in the Bay Area know very little about San Bruno Mountain — the massive, bald hill just south of San Francisco.The surprising story of this largest undeveloped landmass in the urban U.S. is told in the documentary Butterflies & Bulldozers, showing this week at the first San Francisco Green Film Festival.
Winter Issue 2011
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
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.
Wildlife
Development Threatens San Bruno Mountain Butterflies
It’s an old story. Another species that once flourished is being pushed to extinction by modern human encroachment. The callippe silverspot has been gradually pushed into a few remaining islands of habitat, including San Bruno Mountain south of San Francisco. Critics say a long-simmering development proposal threatens that habitat.
Fall Issue 2009
Naturalist’s Notebook: One Year After a Fire on San Bruno Mountain
A year after fire burned through San Bruno Mountain, artist Jack Laws visited to see the recovery of Buckeye and Owl canyons.
Stewardship
The San Bruno Mountain Green Force
Is it possible to find a summer job that lets you be outside, learn new skills, get educated about the area’s environmental richness and gives you the occasional free sandwich? Some Bay Area teens did just that. This summer crews of local youth are working in parks all over the Bay Area, thanks to federal stimulus money.
