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We’ve Lost the A’s, But At Least We Still Have This Invasive Succulent

2 days ago | baynature.org | Ted Trautman

Baseball fans collect souvenirs like squirrels collect acorns. There are the official ones: home run balls, foul balls, baseball cards (and the quest to get them autographed), commemorative pins, bobbleheads, hat-shaped ice cream bowls. Grown men and women exchange hard-earned pay for small scoops of “game-used dirt.” There are, also, the unofficial keepsakes.
Grand Opening Celebration - Sausalito Community Boating Center -

1 month ago | baynature.org

The Sausalito Community Boating Center (SCBC) is thrilled to announce its Grand Opening Celebration, set for April 27, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at 1620 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965. This exciting event will mark the official opening of … Read more
How (and When) Can You Get Your Hands On California’s Climate Bond?

1 month ago | baynature.org | Tanvi Dutta Gupta

“I think this is breaking my Teams right now,” said Evyan Borgnis Sloane, deputy executive officer for the California State Coastal Conservancy. She was starting a webinar, and some 600 people had flooded the online waiting room—an unusual crowd for a standard agency webinar on funding processes. It spoke to how thirsty people have been for information on Proposition 4’s $10 billion bond, approved by California voters in November 2024, to fund climate adaptation work across the state.
This Trump Change Could ‘Eviscerate’ the U.S. Endangered Species Act

1 month ago | baynature.org | Tanvi Dutta Gupta

Bay Area scientists and conservation advocates blasted a Trump administration proposal to remove federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) habitat protections for listed species by significantly narrowing what it means to “harm” them under the law. The administration argues that the ESA limits industrial development and energy extraction that promotes economic growth.
How Trump Is Destroying Historic Environmental Regulation—And How Marin Audubon’s Name Got (Arbitrarily) Caught Up In It - Bay Nature

2 months ago | baynature.org | Tanvi Dutta Gupta

Marin Audubon Society v. FAA seemed “fairly unremarkable,” says environmental lawyer Susan Jane Brown. At stake lay an issue as straightforward as environmental litigation gets: Before flying recreational aircraft over national parks, the plaintiffs said, the agencies had to review the impacts on wildlife and park visitors as dictated by federal law.
Local Heroes 2025: Avroh Shah, Young Leader

2 months ago | baynature.org | Tanvi Dutta Gupta

An American avocet dives into the silt and emerges beak open: “I think it got something!” Avroh Shah says. Out at the Baylands Nature Preserve, the sweep of sky over these shimmering mudflats opens a view to the horizon. “Every time I come here, there’s a smile on my face,” Shah says. Now a sophomore at Palo Alto High School, Shah has explored these nearly 2,000 acres in Santa Clara County since childhood: boating at Shoreline Lake, biking along Coyote Creek, walking on the Bay Trail with friends.
A New Story for Sperm Whales

2 months ago | baynature.org | Tanvi Dutta Gupta

The more sediment obscures the cameras, the clearer it becomes to everyone in the cramped control room: this mission at MARS isn’t going smoothly. All the operators are trying to do today is plug a cord into an outlet. But the mundane becomes complex when you’re doing it with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) 3,000 feet underwater in Monterey Canyon at the Monterey Accelerated Research System ocean observatory—more commonly shortened to MARS.
Editor's Letter: Nature as Remedy

2 months ago | baynature.org | Victoria Schlesinger

Now is the time for heroes. And this year, as in the previous 14, Bay Nature will honor a handful of individuals who inspire us and others through their exceptional environmental work in the Bay Area. The point of our Local Hero Awards has long been to remind and reinforce that the neighbors, colleagues, and people we pass on the trail may all be heroes.
With Trump’s War on DEI, Local Environmental Organizations Rethink Diversity Commitments

Feb 27, 2025 | baynature.org | Tanvi Dutta Gupta

On February 13 in a quiet auditorium in Oakland, the California State Coastal Conservancy’s executive officer, Amy Hutzel, took the podium at the agency’s board meeting to propose a resolution that, three weeks earlier, would have been “self-evident”: She asked the board to reaffirm the Conservancy’s commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. “These don’t seem to be normal times,” she said.
How to Read the Wind Like a Sailor

Feb 26, 2025 | baynature.org | Kate Golden

On land, we can usually afford to ignore the wind. It comes in and out of our chests without fail, it tears shirts from the clothesline, and that’s about it. Not so in a small sailboat on, say, San Francisco Bay, where the wind is your boss. You require it to get anywhere. Heavy winds test mettle; light winds, patience. And the wind’s strength dictates how much of your sail to raise—more in light airs to catch every gust, and less in higher winds, to avoid being overpowered.