A study published in the journal Science in 2019 found that bird populations in North America have taken a nosedive in the last 50 years. By crunching data from citizen scientist counts and [...]
Most trails in the Bay Area have stories to tell, with histories that deepen our experience of the land we walk on. The trails that effectively communicate and interpret history offer the best [...]
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area get their water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but this vital source is imperiled. Islands in the heart of the Delta have lost so much soil [...]
United States Army veteran Maury Argento prefers to get her exercise outside. Sometimes she hikes with her family, but more often than not this businesswoman and mom climbs San Francisco’s hills [...]
When ecologist Jackie Charbonneau learned that cattle ponds in the East Bay hills are vital to rare amphibians, it came as a surprise. Stock ponds can be so muddy and trampled that “they can look [...]
The late-19th-century whitewashed buildings at Angel Island State Park’s Camp Reynolds stand at attention on higher ground, but the old, brick Quartermaster Storehouse is nearly at water’s edge, [...]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, baking has become a popular and passionate pastime for countless people sheltering in place. They might not be aware, however, that every time they measure out [...]
Animals are on the move. Whether we are aware of their movements or not, wildlife migrates by day and by night to hunt, mate, forage, and flee danger. We have a wealth of open space here in the [...]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. What Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson had initially envisioned as a national day of environmental education blossomed into a full-blown movement [...]
The civic open space that surrounds the State Capitol in Sacramento has benches for rest, a rose garden for inspiration, and mature trees for shade. On a typical day at Capitol Park you’re likely [...]
