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June 25, 2024
Paddling Offers Perspective in Open Waters
There’s something in the water in Alameda, and it might be a group of 50 8th graders in kayaks: Sea Trek just opened a second location at the Ballena Isle Marina after over three decades leading kayak...
June 25, 2024
New Neuter Rules Recommended for Cats and Dogs
East Bay animal shelters are in for quite the rewiring if county dog fixing standards catch up to the new vet-recommended age guidelines for neutering. But it may also relieve some of the pressure on owners struggling...
June 25, 2024
Policies in Peril as Fire Risk Rises
On the afternoon of Oct, 19, 1991, Beth Keer hiked up Sonoma Mountain with a friend. After some time, the pair looked back and spotted a plume of smoke in Oakland’s direction. Frantic, they rushed down the...
February 23, 2024
‘The Carbonator’ Fights Wildfire Danger at East Bay Parks
The East Bay Regional Park District may have found the wildfire-fighter equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “The Terminator.”
The most recent California drought is over. But it, and the bigger issue of ongoing climate change, left behind over 1,500...
December 27, 2023
Happy Newt Year!
The East Bay has two endemic newt species, which spend the winter searching for a mating pool, and are protected by Tilden Regional Park from traffic during the breeding season.
November 27, 2023
Life is Wild
What humans perceive as one place—one city—can be a jigsaw puzzle of extremely different ecosystems, each with its own risks and opportunities for wildlife. In the East Bay, animal neighbors are as numerous and varied as human...
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October 24, 2023
What the Succulents Say
Legacy gardens tell vast stories. Features of the landscape describe in hills, valleys, soil, rocks, boulders, wetlands, streams and ponds a location’s geographic history. The trees, plants, grasses, flowers, vegetables, fruits, insects and other biological forms of...
