Come out and help restore San Francisco’s only known habitat for the Coastal Green Hairstreak butterfly, which lies in the Inner Sunset district. Folks who join these workdays help to support the local habitat of this little green gem of … Read more

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Come out and help restore San Francisco’s only known habitat for the Coastal Green Hairstreak butterfly, which lies in the Inner Sunset district. Folks who join these workdays help to support the local habitat of this little green gem of … Read more
San Francisco Botanical Garden and Sunset Piano are excited to present Flower Piano, one of the most unique, creative, and innovative events in the Bay Area! Flower Piano is a musical event and attraction that provides open access to music … Read more
Come out and help restore San Francisco’s only known habitat for the Coastal Green Hairstreak butterfly, which lies in the Inner Sunset district. Folks who join these workdays help to support the local habitat of this little green gem of … Read more
This weekend, on Sunday, July 17, the new 14-acre Tunnel Tops park opens to the public in San Francisco’s Presidio, a former military base turned urban national park that hosts around 10 million visitors a year
For urban butterfly habitats, more is more.
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
Join Sutro Stewards at our native plant nursery to purchase local plants for your garden. California native plants create habitat for local birds, bees, and butterflies and are well adapted for our San Franciscan climate. Come help support our nursery … Read more
In the early 1990s, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reviewed the status of a rare coastal sand dune plant called the San Francisco lessingia, which grows only in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. The background the service … Read more
Come aboard the Schooner Freda B and see the Bay’s iconic sights from the deck of an elegant, traditionally-rigged sailboat. Landmarks often see include the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Marin Headlands, Angel Island, Palace of Fine Arts, Fort Mason, Fisherman’s … Read more
In San Francisco’s southeastern side, city officials see a crown jewel for a remade waterfront park. But will the people who live there see the same thing?