Oct-Dec 2005
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Painting by Kathleen O'Neill.
Feature
by Judith Larner Lowry
Think of the western scrub jay: screeching, assertive, a bully and glutton at backyard bird feeders. But also, as Judith Larner Lowry has noticed in her West Marin yard, caching acorns, bay nuts, and other seeds, many more than the birds could ever hope to recover. Given that these seeds can’t move uphill on their own, we owe our oak-studded hillsides in part to the forethought, and forgetfulness, of this very familiar bird. Lowry’s advice? Sit back and let a few of our local jays’ missed meals take root.
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Photo by Joe DiDonato.
East Bay Parks Feature
by Lisa Owens Viani
The East Bay shoreline is strung like a necklace with more than a dozen parks, from the bluffs of Point Pinole near Richmond to the sandy beach and shallow waters of Alameda’s Crown Beach to the salt marshes near Coyote Hills. The place where water meets land is a magnet for life of many kinds, and these parks are no exception: recreational destination for joggers, swimmers, and windsurfers; home for leopard sharks, bat rays, and crabs; wintertime smorgasbord for thousands of shorebirds. Turn back the clock a few decades, and you would have found garbage dumps or dynamite factories here. Skip back a few more decades, and you would find thriving aquatic ecosystems. You can still see traces of all of this and more at the shoreline parks of the East Bay Regional Park District.
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On the Trail
by Gina Covina, photos by Don Jackson
Thirty years ago, few people gave a second thought to the Laguna de Santa Rosa, the North Coast’s largest freshwater wetland. The once-teeming marshland had become a dumping ground. But things are changing, and this complex waterway is finally beginning to recover some of its former glory.
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Letter from the Publisher
by David Loeb
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Photo by Selvino de Kort.
First Person
by Matthew Bettelheim
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Nine new books, on everything from Native American land management practices to stairway walks in San Francisco, that can help us understand and explore our local environment.
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by Aleta George
Mount Diablo, grunions, West Coast oyster, and more...
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Letter From a Reader
by Jake Sigg
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Letter From a Reader
by Daniel Richman
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Letter From a Reader
by Shirley R. Fischer
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