How to Recognize Spiders By their Webs - Bay Nature Magazine
WEBSep 29, 2015 · Illustration by Rachel Diaz-Bastin. Orb webs are the classic, wheel-shaped webs that have inspired everyone from engineers to poets to, well, designers of computer networks. They are primarily associated with their namesake, the family Araneidae, commonly known as the orb-weaver spiders, and have …
The Guadalupe River and the Hidden Heart of San José - Bay Nature
WEBJun 27, 2018 · Trace the path of the Guadalupe River along cartographer Ben Pease’s 2018 map for Bay Nature. This is not so implausible as it sounds. San José is a river city, split neatly from north to south by the Guadalupe River, a 14-mile waterway that can flood with 14,000 cubic feet per second of water in the winter and shrink to mostly dust in the ...
Mount Umunhum Opens to the Public - Bay Nature
WEBMar 28, 2017 · Umunhum’s 12-acre mountaintop, with its rare panoramic views of the Bay Area, will open to all after being off-limits to the general public since the Almaden Air Force Station became operational in 1958. An interpretive center and almost four miles of new trails for hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders are under construction.
Reintroducing Chorus Frogs to San Francisco - Bay Nature
WEBDec 9, 2014 · At Visitacion Valley Middle School, in southeastern San Francisco near McLaren Park, Kids in Parks transformed neglected areas of the school grounds into shallow ponds. The frogs have returned for five winters to reproduce. Hasselbring says the frogs love the dense brush cover, the ponds’ adjacency to a park, and the larger land area.
ENature.com Website Launch
WEBApr 1, 2002 · Share This: If you haven’t checked out eNature.com, now’s the time. The website has been acquired by the National Wildlife Federation and offers a tremendous resource and tools for exploring Bay Area nature. Local-Guides on the site provide you with a zip-code-based photographic primer on the wildlife common in any area, including birds ...
Treasure Hunt: Flowers You Might Find After a Fire - Bay Nature
WEBMar 30, 2018 · After a fire, seeds that have been lying dormant in the soil, sometimes for decades or even a century, awaken. Botanist Lech Naumovich describes the complex post-fire ecology of the North Bay in the April 2018 Bay Nature.This rare plant list gives an idea of some of the individual species that botanists might find in the coming years.
The Diablo Range: California's Terra Incognita - Bay Nature
WEBMar 24, 2020 · The dangerous expedition was led by California’s most infamous literary outlaw, Joaquín Murieta. The folk hero stars in John Rollin Ridge’s 1854 novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit—the first novel published in California, the first one published by a Native American, and a source text for future stories of masked avengers from Zorro to Batman.
Bay Nature Magazine: The SF Bay Herring Spawn is a Natural …
WEBJan 8, 2015 · Between November and March in the winter of 2013-2014, 60,600 tons of Pacific herring swam into the San Francisco Bay to spawn. That’s a lot of small fish: 300 blue whales’ worth; 8,600 elephants’ worth; 50,000 great white sharks’ worth. The pulses in that silver fish wave, reaching up to a mile long by a mile wide, represent perhaps ...
Explore | The Trail Around the San Francisco Bay - Bay Nature
WEBJun 23, 2019 · More than 355 miles of paths so far, the Bay Trail will ultimately connect to more than 130 parks and open spaces. Roughly 230 miles of paved path complement another 120-plus miles of natural-surface trails designed to be suitable for a wide range of uses without harming Bay wildlife and habitat. Other “spur” trail segments at times divert ...
Meet Nature's Extreme Athlete, Elephant Seals - Bay Nature …
WEBJanuary 6, 2020. Male elephant seals are among the loudest mammals ever recorded, and they can weigh more than two tons. (Photo by Steve Zamek, Feather Light Photography) On a sparkling blue January morning, I meet marine biologist Patrick Robinson, who will escort me around Año Nuevo State Park, a patch of dunes and bluffs an hour’s drive ...
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