Jul-Sep 2004
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East Bay Parks Feature
by Gordy Slack
The hills above Oakland once held some of the largest redwoods ever seen, one estimated at 31 feet in diameter. Ten million years ago, such trees towered over much of North America. Nothing in this long history prepared them for the coming of men, armed with axes and saws, who felled all of Oakland's redwoods in just 15 years. But even second- and third-growth redwood forests hold their charms, not to mention the subtle suggestions of the forests they can once again become. And you don't have to go too far from downtown Oakland to find them.
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Photo by Gerald L. Moore.
On the Trail
by Bill O'Brien
What do you get when you scoop up 250,000 cubic yards of muck from the Petaluma River? Prime shorebird habitat, of course. Unlikely as it may seem, Shollenberger Park is a place where birders have spotted 150 bird species, from nesting avocets and stilts to harriers and egrets. And a new addition to the park will make it one of the largest publicly accessible stretches of wetlands in the Bay Area.
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Signs of the Season
by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
A little standing water is all it takes for mosquitoes to get going, so it’s no wonder they’ve been making evolutionary hay for over 30 million years—and acting as efficient disease transporters along the way, even here in the temperate Bay Area.
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by Christine Sculati
Songbirds, purple needlegrass, Henry Coe State Park, oak woodlands, and more...
From the Jul-Sep 2004 issue
Photo copyright 2003 David Liittschwager.
Signs of the Season
text by Sue Rosenthal, photos by David Liittschwager and Geneva Bumb
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