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unknown species all over Costa Rica. check out the pink, petal-like "bracts" (modified leaves) and the tiny star-shaped flowers. Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder. Yep, just started this post with a cliche. Forgive me, or don’t. For instance, I’ll be hiking Mt. Sutro with a friend, who will say, “Oh, this [...]  The 75,500 acres of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area provide refuge for over 38 rare species, dozens of plant communities, and a shit ton of fennel. Santa Cruz Island, the biggest and second-closest to the mainland of the five northern Channel Islands, is a gem of fragile, unique biodiversity, a rock in the [...] The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and Natural Resources Defense Council released a 34-page report last week detailing totally fucked? how rising temperatures from climate change will affect ten of California’s national parks. You can download it from RMCO’s site here, and though the findings are far from cool (hardy har har….), among them: [...]
fun schwag packet in the mail doesn't this look like that "ladies sewing circle and terrorist society" sticker of yore? Outstanding among the 50 states, California supports over 5,000 native plant species, one-third of which are endemic, meaning they’re found only here and nowhere else. But the survival of [...] I visited the Giacomini wetlands last week, a restoration project up in Tomales Bay. The land was an historic tidal marsh that had been operated as a cattle ranch for the past century. A network of dikes and levees disconnected Lagunitas Creek from the ocean, a view towards the Pacific: from pasture [...] |
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