Tara Duggan
Staff Writer, Climate Desk at San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle staff writer on the climate beat, formerly food. Coauthor of "Steamed: A Catharsis Cookbook" (Running Press) and other cookbooks.
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3 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Tara Duggan
The San Francisco Zoo is subject to a city audit. Officials say it is not providing sufficient documents. Yuri Avila/The ChronicleThe San Francisco Zoo has failed to provide a complete financial picture of its operations and at one point outright refused to participate in a probe of its management and finances by the Board of Supervisors, according to a scathing letter from the city office conducting the audit.
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3 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Tara Duggan
Larry Mazzola Jr., the head of a San Francisco Zoo advisory committee, told the Chronicle that zoo leadership was “inept” and floated the idea of ousting the nonprofit that runs the facility. District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar accused the zoo of not complying with a city audit and vowed to try to pull public funding from the zoo until that changes.
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3 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Tara Duggan
Park rangers responding to a complaint of a homeless encampment assisted in the arrest of suspects in a burglary at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, seen in 2022. Jana Asenbrennerova/Special to The ChronicleNational Park Service rangers just helped solve the mystery of a safe that disappeared from the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers and was recovered from a homeless encampment near the Legion of Honor in the Presidio.
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4 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Tara Duggan
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. Oyster reef balls can be seen at a newly-developed restoration site along the shoreline of Point San Pablo in Richmond, California, on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Native Olympia oysters are surprisingly resistant to rising ocean temperatures, according to a new study. Once abundant from Baja California to British Columbia, they are coming back with restoration projects such as in the San Francisco Bay.
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4 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba |Tara Duggan
Melinda Dunn, left, the chair of the board of the San Francisco Zoological Society, and Tanya Peterson, its CEO and executive director, speak at a Board of Supervisors committee meeting on Dec. 5, 2024; the image is a composite of two screen captures of the live feed from that meeting. Sfgov.orgA top San Francisco Zoo official who backed a plan to remove the zoo’s controversial CEO resigned Tuesday, capping off a weekslong power struggle over the future of the city-owned institution.
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