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 Rooting Gardens in California Native Plants

Rooting Gardens in California Native Plants

April 14, 2022

What if, with one fell swoop, you could support wildlife, provide yourself with beautiful daily scenes of birth and regrowth, all while using barely any resources or water? Well, you can, by [...]

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 Should We Use Open Space to Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

Should We Use Open Space to Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

October 25, 2021

Update: The public hearing for the future of Point Molate has been postponed from November 2021 to spring of 2022. Nearly 25 years ago, the U.S. Navy transferred more than 400 acres on Point [...]

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 Coexisting with Coho During Drought

Coexisting with Coho During Drought

August 23, 2021

When Bolinas farmer Peter Martinelli decided to help coho salmon by boosting summer water levels in Pine Gulch Creek, which runs through his land, he had no idea that the project would take two [...]

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 Bay Area Builds Regional Drought Resilience

Bay Area Builds Regional Drought Resilience

June 1, 2021

It feels like California’s 2011-2016 drought, our worst on record, had barely ended when the next one began. This is our second dry year in a row and, according to the state Department of Water [...]

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 Regional Planning for Sea-Level Rise Is Key to Environmental Justice

Regional Planning for Sea-Level Rise Is Key to Environmental Justice

April 1, 2021

As shoreline communities in the San Francisco Bay Area scramble to prepare for rising seas, they should also be mindful that protecting themselves could worsen flooding elsewhere. This is because [...]

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 New Delta Carbon Market Could Boost Bay Area Water Security

New Delta Carbon Market Could Boost Bay Area Water Security

February 1, 2021

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 [...]

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 Cattle Ponds Double as Habitat for Threatened Amphibians

Cattle Ponds Double as Habitat for Threatened Amphibians

December 1, 2020

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 [...]

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 Speeding Approval of Tidal Marsh Restoration in the Bay

Speeding Approval of Tidal Marsh Restoration in the Bay

October 1, 2020

In 2016 the Bay Area voted on Measure AA, which will raise half a billion dollars to restore the tidal marshes that protect against rising tides. The measure passed in a landslide, prompting the [...]

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 Where’s the Dirt? Scientists Surveying Sediment in Salt Marshes

Where’s the Dirt? Scientists Surveying Sediment in Salt Marshes

August 1, 2020

When Brenda Goeden first started working on mud, silt, and sand in the San Francisco Bay two decades ago, dredgers and contractors couldn’t get rid of all the sediment they excavated fast enough. [...]

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 Sea Otters Used to Live in the Bay — Should We Bring Them Back?

Sea Otters Used to Live in the Bay — Should We Bring Them Back?

June 1, 2020

When most people think of sea otters, they picture these charismatic creatures wrapped in kelp as they float on their backs in the ocean. But this iconic image is only part of the story. Sea [...]

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