Bay Area residents are seeing them in the hundreds and thousands, these winged Painted Ladies making their way north on a regular migration. I didn’t realize they were pushing on through until we saw a blanket of these vivid wings swaying atop fruit blossoms. They honored us with a few poses before flitting up to [...]
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The East Bay leg of the San Francisco Bay Trail has an extraordinary, long stretch from San Leandro Marina southward to the Hayward Shoreline. Where some of the Bay Trail jogs inland on paved roads, this particular portion runs alongside the Bay and through the heart of the marina itself.
The trail [...]
The unavoidable reality of working with (or caring about) animals is witnessing the things we humans sometimes do to those animals. Years ago, when I first learned of this hunt, I thought it would soon be obsolete — that the horrifying images which left me sleepless would equally shock the world.
But every year, the [...]
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Update: Defenders of Wildlife sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to ascertain what new scientific review Secretary Salazar used in making this determination. Defenders President Rodger Schlickeisen noted: “There’s no way, in six short weeks, that the Department of the Interior had time to properly review the proposed delisting and examine the latest [...]
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