Oct-Dec 2001
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Painting by Ane Carla Rovetta.
Feature
by Jules Evens
The return of endangered coho salmon to their ancestral spawning grounds in this west Marin watershed is an essential component of the connective tissue that holds a fragmented ecosystem together. Greeting the salmon tethers us to the landscape's seasonal rhythms and reawakens a lineage that goes back to the first inhabitants of this place.
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Feature
by S.W. Edwards
Nestled in the hills southeast of Livermore, at the border between the San Joaquin Valley and the Bay Area, the old Tesla Mine townsite in Corral Hollow sustains a vibrant mix of inner south coast range plants and animals along with the traces of a rich human history. But a state proposal to create an off-road vehicle park in the hollow threatens to reopen old scars on this tranquil landscape.
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Image Gallery
by Robin Grossinger snd Christine Reed
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Photo by Rex Burress.
On the Trail
by Rex Burress
Over 100 years ago, poet Joaquin Miller found a refuge in the Oakland hills. Today, thousands of residents from the cities below are doing likewise in the park that bears his name.
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Letter from the Publisher
by David Loeb
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Ask the Naturalist
by Michael Ellis
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by Marilyn Smulyan
Birds, birds, everywhere, tule elk rutting season, mushrooms and other fungi, Sudden Oak Death update, "Nature & the City", and more...
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