Blooming Now: Calochortus Lilies

There are 18 local species of flowers in genus #Calochortus , split into 4 groups: #mariposas , #catsears , #startulips , & #fairylanterns .

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🖋️ Lech Naumovich
📸 s Cinda MacKinnon, Vernon Smith

#mariposalilies #nativeplants

An Indigenous Garden Takes Root

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🖋️ @anushuyathapa
📸 Kathy Cutting

#nativeusegarden #wildbillions #indigenouslifeways #gardens #elderberry #sage #dogbane #lemontrees #californianativeplants mak-'amham/Cafe Ohlone Cal State East Bay

Join Bay Nature and the Mt. Diablo Interpretive Assoc. for a natural history hike in Pine Canyon on 5/17. We’ll hike along the Castle Rock cliffs of Mt. Diablo. Registration is free for Bay Nature members and $5 for non-members. 🔗 ow.ly/Axsh50RzYAL

📷 Derek Love

Naturalist’s Notebook: Where to See Lions

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🎨+🖋️ John Muir Laws

#baynature #naturalistsnotebook #johnmuirlaws #naturejournaling #pinnipeds #californiasealions #sealions #stellarsealions #northernfurseals #furseals #bayareapinnipeds #marinemammals

One of the species we saw at the #baynature #bioblitz last weekend was the #redcagefungus —aka the latticed #stinkhorn —'a geometric pop of orange-red,' as artist Alex Harris describes it in a piece on this eye-catching, smelly #mushroom :

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🎨 Alex Harris

Q: Who are BIL and IRA? A: Two federal bills that provide unprecedented federal funding for environmental justice and climate change projects. Last summer #baynature launched the #wildbillions reporting project to examine their regional impact:

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The Tussle Between A Beetle and its Shrub 🐞

Look closely on a spring day, and you will find an emerald gleam on ubiquitous #coyotebrush .

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🖋️ 📸 Russ Aguilar

#leafbeetle #beetle #beetle #insects #botany #biodiversity #nativeplants #baynature @cnps

As California funding for surveillance of infectious and debilitating #snakefungaldisease runs out this year, here’s what to look out for—and how to be a friend to your local #snakes when you’re out hiking. 🐍

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🖋️ 📸 Anton Sorokin

#baynature #herps

Q&A With A “ #Bird Savant”

Since retiring from his job as an #avian #biologist in 2005, John Robinson has taught #bayarea residents how to become better #birdwatchers . His teaching philosophy: Anyone can become a #birder .

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🖋️ Eric Simons
📸 Robert Houser

Bay Nature’s April hike at Máyyan 'Ooyákma - Coyote Ridge was a 5 ⭐ affair! Thanks to Stu Weiss of Creekside Science for speaking. Interested in future Bay Nature Hikes? 🥾 Join our Publisher's Circle for priority invitations!
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📷 Barbara Butkus

Forest Service Grants Delayed for Communities in Flammable #Forests :

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🖋️ Anushuya Thapa
📸 courtesy of Feather River RCD

#baynature #wildbillions #wildfire #californiawildfire #usforestservice #usfs

NEW STATE PARK: Announced on #earthday , #DosRios State Park will join California’s State Park system on June 12, 2024. It will be the first new California State Park in 15 years:

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🖋️ H.R. Smith
🎨 G Yang

@parkscalifornia riverpartners

#EARTHWEEK SALE 🌎

Join the #baynature community with an annual membership! For a limited time, you can save 20%. w/ EARTHWEEK24 code. Benefits include the magazine, Bay Nature hikes, webinars and more! Ends 4/28.

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📸s: Floyd McCluhan, Barbara Butkus

Spring 2024 Almanac: #Kingfishers , #Sycamores , and #SeaHares

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🎨s @inkdwell

#baynature #almanac #bayareabirds #bayareatrees #tidepooling #nightsky

⭐ Free Event ⭐ Join bioblitz Sat April 27, Cal campus. Experts help ID 1-2pm #citynaturechallenge

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📸: iNat observations from campus: Ethan Saso, CC-BY-NC; Emily Banno, CC-BY-NC; Gordon Lau, CC-By-NCx2; marleemeek, CC-BY-NC

Why They Fly in Feathered Flocks

In this piece, Claire Peaslee looks into the ways and reasons #birds flock: “Within a collective, an individual can be more certain of success in its primary goal: eat and don’t get eaten.”

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📸 @alincoln_photo

#starling

This year’s sold out Local Hero Awards was a great success! ⭐ Gathering together showed us that from the pages of Bay Nature magazine, a community grows. Our 2024 honorees inspired the audience with their personal stories and the impact of their work. 🏆

📷 Usry Alleyne

When Plants Cry baynature.org/article/when-p…

Join Bay Nature, Creekside Science, and Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority for an exclusive hike at the newly opened Máyyan 'Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve. 🥾 Free for Bay Nature members, $5 for non-members.
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📷 Courtesy of SCVOSA

The Xerces blue #butterfly , long gone from #sanfrancisco , became a symbol of the fight against #extinction . Now scientists are sending in a replacement:

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🖋️ H.R. Smith
📸s courtesy California Academy of Sciences

#butterflies #sanfrancisco butterfly #biodiversity