Beside the manicured lawn at Cragmont Elementary, a Berkeley Hills school overlooking the San Francisco Bay, is a small hillside patch of tangled trees and weeds—coyote brush, sage brush, wood rose, ...
The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...
ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON IN 1962, a 14-year-old boy named Jim Carlton scrambled down through thick brush onto the exposed muddy shoreline of Adams Point on Lake Merritt. The small beach was quiet ...
A yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii), one widespread native bee, comes to land on a flower. (Photo courtesy of Nathalie Bonnet) One hot day last year, Sung Lee, an East Bay beekeeper who ...
TO GET TO THE EXCEEDINGLY rare plant called California sea-blite you go down to the east shore of San Francisco on an unmarked industrial road, past warehouses and jumbled rail lines. Cement plant ...
Point Blue researchers Amanda Spears, Jeannie Johnson, and Meredith Elliott introduce the seals of the Farallon Islands and their diets (hint: the research involves seal scat!). This talk builds on ...