Jan-Mar 2004
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Feature
by David Rains Wallace
A million years ago, in a climate much like ours today, the land around an ancestral bay teemed with large animals: mammoths and saber-tooth cats; bears, horses, and peccaries. By 300 years ago, the mammoths were gone, but grizzlies, elk, condor, and pronghorn were abundant.European settlers wiped out many of those animals, but programs to reintroduce some of them are now under way. Which raises the question: What should a healthy, native megafauna look like now?
From the Jan-Mar 2004 issue
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East Bay Parks Feature
by Joe Eaton
The rounded hills by the Bay are the first thing that catch your eye at Coyote Hills Regional Park. But the brackish and freshwater marshes behind the hills have a charm of their own. Remnant of a once-extensive mix of tidal and freshwater wetlands that sustained a thriving Ohlone community for several thousand years, the marsh is now home to marsh wrens, muskrats, and one of the East Bay's few remaining patches of tules.
From the Jan-Mar 2004 issue
Published January 01, 2004
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Letter from the Publisher
by David Loeb
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Signs of the Season
by Matthew Bettelheim
A good rain sends all manner of mushrooms pushing their way up from underground. Here are some of the places around the Bay Area where you can admire the beauty and diversity of these charismatic fungi.
From the Jan-Mar 2004 issue
Published January 01, 2004
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Ask the Naturalist
by Dr. Dennis E. Desjardin
From the Jan-Mar 2004 issue
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by Leah Messinger
San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival, neighborhood parks, salmon, new maps and books, and more...
From the Jan-Mar 2004 issue
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