When you’re cruising below the clouds at 3,000 feet, the Bay Area is just far away enough to still look familiar. And a small aircraft allows you to keep the details in view, says pilot Mark Dedon—from birds to mountain lions.
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Science and Nature
How Your Beach Photos Are Helping CA Scientists: Snapshot Cal Coast 2022
This year’s Snapshot Cal Coast featured 4,083 people logging 46,683 observations of almost 4,000 species into the iNaturalist app from June 13 to July 4.
Summer Issue 2006
What a Grand Sight!
Beginning in 1860, botanist William H. Brewer accompanied state geologist Josiah Dwight Whitney on an expedition to perform “an accurate and complete Geological Survey” of California’s rocks, fossils, soils, minerals, and botanical and zoological specimens. Brewer’s accounts of his travels, … Read more
Fall Issue 2001
Resurvey of San Pablo Bay
1854: U.S. coast survey map by Josh Collins.; 1897: U.S. coast survey map courtesy CA State Lands Commission; 1996: NASA infrared photo. http://www.stillhere.org
