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Moving forward with an eye on the past: reconciliation in California’s Central Valley
In California’s Central Valley, research on an innovative approach for converting riverside habitats into multi-use areas offers a new way […]
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Biomimicry: The Sincerest Form of Flattery
You’ve probably never heard of George de Mestral before. Like many inventors, fame simply wasn’t in the cards. His invention, […]
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Making Nature Preserves for People Too
Nature preserves are so much about the wildlife. Visitors are like houseguests. They’re welcome as long as they respect the […]
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Where the Wild Ones Are
Photo: Burrowing owl inside of natural burrow. Credit: Larry Jordan The owls of our childhood are far from fierce beings. […]
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Rewriting the Lawn Ethic
As I walked to the grocery store this evening, I found myself sidestepping puddles on the sidewalk and skirting ankle-high jets of water. Though another dusty California summer has come to a close, the water continues to flow. Through irrigation tubing, that is.
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Perspectives on the American Lawn
IT’S HARD TO remember an October where the distant roar of a leaf-blower wasn’t the soundtrack. Every Saturday my father […]
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Saving Bees in a Post-wild California
Henry David Thoreau once famously said, “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” and environmentalists to this day invoke […]
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Cows Not Chemicals: Training Cattle to Eat Invasive Weeds
A heifer in Alberta, Canada eating Canada Thistle, Cirsium arvense (credit: Fito Zamudio). A haiku The War on Weeds ends When […]
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Polli-Nation: Why Native Pollinators Matter
Photo: Megachile fidelis on Mexican sunflower. Credit: Kathy Keatley Garvey The specter of election season is upon us and once […]
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Proposes Controversial Plan to Eradicate Invasive Mice
Photo: View from Farallon Islands from above. Credit: USFWS Updated January 4, 2016. Located 30 miles off the San Francisco […]
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Nature for Kids Takes Root on Urban Farms
It wasn’t so long ago that kids routinely showed up for dinner with dirt under their fingernails and muddy sneakers. […]
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An Underground Revolution
Around this time last year, I started my first garden. I grew up digging in the loamy earth of an […]
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Rethinking Our Role in the Natural World
Ecologists and knitters have a lot in common. Perhaps seasoned knitters have found a way to tame their yarn, but […]
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An Environmental Journey: Assaults to Reconciliation
You know you’re getting old when a historian asks you for a first-hand account. I received such a call not […]
