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Donna Graves couldn’t believe it when she heard that the LGBTQ+ exhibit she created at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, California, was in jeopardy.

Bay Nature connects the people of the Bay Area to the natural world around them. Find out more about our mission, programs, ...

Environmental Justice The People Will Keep Fishing, Despite Forever Chemicals in the Fish PFAS is 'way more widespread than we really thought' in Bay Area sport fish, a scientist says. But it’s not so ...

When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious restoration plans.

Here to stay? Mats of Eurasian watermilfoil clog waterways in the Tahoe Keys, on Lake Tahoe’s south side. It can regrow from a wisp. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) Biodiversity What Lies Beneath Can we keep ...

Protecting the Land Through Partnerships In late August 2024, we gathered with our partners in the Solano Land Trust and Solano County to open the park and celebrate our collective efforts to preserve ...

Conservation How Local Conservationists Are Planning for the Trump Era Prop. 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation is one blessing. Another is money that can’t be unspent.

Scientists have schlepped up some silvery blue butterflies, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, from the Monterey area to the Presidio, to stand in for their extinct cousin. (Gayle Laird, California Academy of ...

Climate Change Mud-Starved Wetlands Get a Meal, At Last With Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, the Bay’s wetlands are finally getting some precious muck. Why have we been dumping it offshore?

Biodiversity Eulogy for a Crayfish We Hardly Knew The death knell for the sooty crayfish probably sounded with the introduction of its cousin from the north.