Category: Nature
Siempre está soleado en North Fair Oaks
Los residentes de la comunidad no incorporada lanzaron su segunda campaña en dos años para lograr que el condado se ocupe de los árboles de la calle que se están muriendo.
How to Make Conservation a Career
California nonprofits are developing paid apprenticeships to prepare workers for the growing ecological restoration economy.
Raft of Resilience Initiatives Keeps Tahoe Blue
Beach robots, boat inspections, forest thinning, and wetland restoration are among the projects helping the lake confront environmental threats.
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It’s Always Sunny In North Fair Oaks
Residents of the unincorporated community launched their second campaign in two years to get the county to care for dying street trees.
Siempre está soleado en North Fair Oaks
Los residentes de la comunidad no incorporada lanzaron su segunda campaña en dos años para lograr que el condado se ocupe de los árboles de la calle que se están muriendo.
How to Make Conservation a Career
California nonprofits are developing paid apprenticeships to prepare workers for the growing ecological restoration economy.
Raft of Resilience Initiatives Keeps Tahoe Blue
Beach robots, boat inspections, forest thinning, and wetland restoration are among the projects helping the lake confront environmental threats.
The Tricky Art of Growing Oysters in the Lab So They Can Survive in the Field
The Nature Conservancy, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and others are growing oysters in the lab and planting them in the wild in estuaries around San Francisco Bay.
How a North Bay Regional Park Helped Me Reconnect With Nature — and Myself
A young Fairfield resident reflects on how hiking during the pandemic became a refuge from digital overload and the growing realities of climate change.
Wild Pigs Rough Up Bay Area Greens
They tear up landscapes in search of food, prey on native wildlife, and damage streams, and warming could bring them closer to urban areas.
Climate Change, A Scorpion’s POV
From the Sierra Nevada to the Mojave Desert, the state’s native scorpions are losing habitat as heat, wildfires, and development reshape ecosystems.
12 Creek Types: Which One Is In Your Backyard?
Geomorphologist Gregory Pasternack and his team documented 12 types of Bay Area creeks to help residents protect themselves from flood threats.
A New Tax to Maintain Green Spaces Around Santa Clara?
If passed, Measure D would would raise $17 million annually for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority.
New Shoreline Projects Could Add 168 Acres of Parks to the East Bay
New plans could transform Golden Gate Fields and an Oakland industrial lot into public parks, with sea-level rise resilience built in.
Flores, Flautas, and an Invitation Outside
The Bay Area chapter of Latino Outdoors offers an invitation to outdoor adventure with free, bilingual hikes and camping trips.