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After 28 Years, Alameda Creek Opens Up To Fish - Bay Nature The last fish barrier is falling—a watershed moment, if you will.

Great yarn from @tanvidg.bsky.social about how 20 MILES of creek will be opened up to fish after DECADES! (And meet the fellow whose baby this has been for so many years.)

Thinking of all those who take on enviro projects that seem almost impossible at the start.
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The Man Who Records the Nature Sounds We Meditate To - Bay Nature A soundscape recordist is an escape artist.

One of the coolest details about @tanvidg.bsky.social's outing with a field recordist is that a mic placed on a redwood produced this persistent low rumble—she thought maybe the sounds of fluid running through the tree. The sound of its lifeblood!? Does anyone know? baynature.org/2025/06/12/t...

We’ve Lost the A’s, But At Least We Still Have This Invasive Succulent - Bay Nature The ice plant become an unlikely symbol of Oakland pride—at least for A’s fans. But its symbolism is deeply counterintuitive.

At last, we did it. We managed to publish a sports story at @baynature.org.

Pitch-perfect writing by the great Ted Trautman and photos to match from Florence Middleton. Deepest thanks to these two for making my editing summer more fun.

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Point Reyes, After the Cattle - Bay Nature When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious restoration plans.

The park and its partners aren't saying much beyond what's in the published docs—so @lisamkrieger.bsky.social dug through docs and talked to experts to find out what's next for Point Reyes. There's a grand vision ... and it's far from guaranteed.
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Survival of the Flittest: Relocated Butterflies Are Spotted in San Francisco - Bay Nature At a recent release, volunteers help a new batch of silvery blues adjust to city life.

Good luck, little butterflies! No presh.

Some hopeful news amid the turmoil, from @strangerworks.bsky.social for @baynature.org 🌎https://baynature.org/2025/05/01/survival-of-the-flittest-relocated-butterflies-are-spotted-in-san-francisco/

After Trump Cuts, Environmental Justice Grantees Halt Work and Scramble to Pay Employees - Bay Nature In conversations with 13 Bay Area agencies and nonprofits performing EJ work, Bay Nature has found that over one-third have had to halt or change their work over the past three months due to funding f...

The status of Biden-era environmental justice grants has been unclear even to grantees themselves; some haven't heard from their agency contacts for months. Others are still pulling down dollars from the funding portal, and taking things one invoice at a time.
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This Trump Change Could ‘Eviscerate’ the U.S. Endangered Species Act - Bay Nature A plan to redefine ‘harm’ could remove federal habitat protections from almost 100 Bay Area listed species. The proposal is now open for public comment until May 17.

Public comment is now open for the Trump administration's big proposed change to the Endangered Species Act. Here's what conservation experts told us it could mean for threatened Bay Area species.
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Bay Nature Magazine: Kestrels Hunt By Following Prey Trails in the Ultraviolet The kestrel hovering over that vacant field has a vision superpower.

While we're thinking about voles and the predators that love them, here's an archive Naturalist's Notebook from @johnmuirlaws.com on how kestrels can spot voles from above—because vole pee is super bright in UV, which kestrels can see!
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Even Ground Squirrels Got In On the Vole Feast Last Summer - Bay Nature For the first time, scientists documented concerted carnivory by California ground squirrels. But why were there so many voles?

Apparently, when life gives you voles, that's what you eat.
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Our sailor-editor @meownderthal.bsky.social did a full-page illustration of the Beaufort wind scale for our Winter print issue along with her piece on it. This one time, we're in favor of tearing out the page to take with you on the water (and send a pic if you do).

Thanks for the share, @sammyroth.bsky.social! It's great to see you here.

Large-scale solar power is coming to Tiger Salamander country; it's called Aramis.

Read more about it here.

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Bay Nature Magazine: Stephen Sharnoff Shares the Secrets of Lichen Nobody knows California's incredible, diverse lichens like Stephen Sharnoff, author of the new A Field Guide to California Lichens.

California, with its great diversity, has about 1,500 of the 5,400 lichens known across the continent. Stephen Sharnoff's field guide to California lichens that contains about 500 of those species. 🔗: ow.ly/uplE50UlYyu

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Every year, Bay Nature and the local nature and conservation community come together to celebrate amazing individuals who are making a difference for our precious Bay Area environment. We announce Bay Nature’s 2025 Local Hero Award winners!

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Bay Nature's Tanvi Dutta Gupta spoke with more than a dozen local advocates, officials, and scientists in the conservation world to find out how they're preparing for the Trump era.
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Our Wild Billions project examines the impacts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act on nature. David Hayes, key architect of the bills, weighs in.

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Naturalist's Notebook: Making Waves - Bay Nature The next time you sit at the shore, ponder the physics before you. A sketchbook from John Muir Laws.

As you sit on the shore, ponder the physics of waves. Understanding how waves work does not reduce the wonder and awe of watching them crash. Illustrations by John Muir Laws. 🦑
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The Coyotes Arrived. Now, They’re Changing Angel Island. - Bay Nature Years ago, a scientist proposed introducing coyotes to control the island’s deer population. Now, it seems coyotes have since swam over on their own.

Years ago, scientists discussed introducing the canine carnivores to control the island’s deer population. Now it seems coyotes have since crossed over on their own and settled in, Jillian Magtoto writes.
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Bay Nature’s Environmental Journalism Wins 3 Local Awards This year's SPJ NorCal Awards haul is the largest in BN's 24-year history.

Bay Nature’s staff and writers celebrated three journalism awards for our science and environment reporting in this premier competition among Northern California journalists. The values you support by supporting Bay Nature were recognized.
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Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies Is No Cinch - Bay Nature Scientists want to reintroduce these many-armed roombas as a great help for kelp.

Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies Is No Cinch.
Scientists want to reintroduce these many-armed roombas as a great help for kelp 🦑
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Historic Money for Bay Area Nature Has Started to Flow. The Challenge? Spending it. - Meet BIL and IRA—two federal bills with forgettable names that belie their enormous potential impact on the environment.

Neither the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law nor the Inflation Reduction Act sound like environment bills, but they’re our nation’s biggest environmental legislation in a generation. Bay Nature has an ongoing series that tracks BIL & IRA fund dispersals #ClimateSky
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Soundscape Listening Room • MBARI Access a live stream and a library of sounds recorded using a hydrophone (underwater microphone) off the Central California coast.

Intrepid editorial fellow Tanvi Dutta Gupta witnessed the MBARI hydrophone deployment yesterday. The feed is up and running, bringing you whale songs from Monterey Canyon's depths! (It says it's not live, but it is!) 🦑@montereyaq.bsky.social
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