A Trip to the Farallones, to See Birds on the Edge - Bay Nature
Oct 8, 2024 · A flight, or gulp, of Brandt’s cormorants. (Kip Evans) In 2023, global sea surface temperatures reached record highs, and they’ve continued to spike in 2024.Around the Farallones, an El Niño that lasted from summer 2023 to the end of spring 2024 raised temps a couple of degrees above the long-term average and caused some birds to delay breeding, to not breed at all, or to lay fewer eggs ...
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The Enduring Mystery of Oak Tree "Mast" Years - Bay Nature
Jul 5, 2022 · Variability is only half of masting behavior; the other half is synchrony. If individual trees bore variable acorn crops but asynchronously with each other, the overall number of acorns available might remain constant from year to year, allowing mobile predators like birds to find productive trees and never suffer the cost of a lean year.
The Pocket Forests Grow Thick - Bay Nature
Aug 29, 2024 · The schoolyard forests here weren’t planted only for their ecological benefits, though; they’re meant to teach and inspire students. A few years back, Neelam Patil, who was teaching science literacy at Cragmont Elementary in Berkeley, was looking for ways to help her students participate in climate action themselves.
Farmers Are Fallowing Land As Water Limits Rise - Bay Nature
Jul 4, 2023 · Dan Vink, an irrigation consultant in Tulare County, has helped coordinate the restoration of 500 acres of farmland to wildlife habitat at Capinero Creek since the project’s inception.Dan Vink, a longtime resident and irrigation consultant in Tulare County, stands for a portrait outside his office in Visalia, California on May 3, 2023.
What’s in Prop. 4, the $10B Climate Bond on the Ballot
Oct 17, 2024 · The environment is on the ballot this November—and not just in the presidential race. Amidst a plethora of other measures, Californians will vote on Proposition 4, the so-called climate bond, which would authorize the state to issue $10 billion in bonds for environmental and climate projects—many of which likely won’t be funded while the state faces a …
Call of the Galls - Bay Nature
Jul 1, 2009 · Over 400 years old and with a 256-inch trunk circumference, “Old Blue,” in a remote area near the highest point in the Ohlone Regional Wilderness, is believed to be the largest and oldest blue oak in the Bay Area.
Gathering Acorns, A Reliable Harvest Since the Beginning - Bay …
Dec 5, 2013 · If you had walked into a village in the Bay Area 200 years ago, the air would have been full of the clangs and rattles of popping acorns against mortars — “dum, dum, pop” — as women gathered to prepare acorn flour.
Explore | The Trail Around the San Francisco Bay - Bay Nature
Jun 23, 2019 · Thirty years after the project officially began, the idea for the San Francisco Bay Trail seems both delightfully obvious and considerably difficult. To link Bay Area communities across nine counties and 47 cities with one multiuse, 500-mile trail is an … Read more
Where Are there Bats in the Bay Area? - Bay Nature
Oct 16, 2018 · If all of that still isn’t exciting enough, and you want to see bats up close, check out NorCalBats, an organization that does bat rescue, rehabilitation, and release.NorCalBat often does educational programs around the Bay Area with non-releasable California bats.