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 ...