logo for print

Do you love connecting with Bay Area landscapes and critters? Become a Friend of Bay Nature. Send us some acorns today!

Bay Nature Library

A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California

A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California

reviewed by Sue Rosenthal

This book is an unmatched picture--in paintings and words-- of what California might have been like before the arrival of Europeans.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

The Laws Pocket Guide Set: San Francisco Bay Area

The Laws Pocket Guide Set: San Francisco Bay Area

reviewed by Amos Hausman-Rogers

Created by Bay Nature contributor John Muir Laws, this is a compact and very handy set of guides to common species of the Bay Area.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

A California Bestiary

A California Bestiary

reviewed by Dan Rademacher

A short, compelling series of essays and paintings of a dozen species of California wildlife from Rebecca Solnit and Mona Caron.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

The Place that Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed

The Place that Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed

reviewed by Melanie Jones

This far-reaching anthology of poems is a lovely collection that speaks to what it is to be natural in the Bay Area.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names

California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names

reviewed by Sue Rosenthal

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

Dorothy Erskine, Graceful Crusader for Our Environment

Dorothy Erskine, Graceful Crusader for Our Environment

reviewed by Dan Rademacher

A strong biography of the founder of Greenbelt Alliance, dorothy Erskine, who deserves to be remembered widely and well.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

California Rocks! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State

California Rocks! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State

reviewed by Vanessa Thill

A well-written and illustrated guide to California geology, including about a dozen spots in the Bay Area.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

Living Landscape: Rise of the East Bay Regional Park District

Living Landscape: Rise of the East Bay Regional Park District

reviewed by Dan Rademacher

A new book chronicles the recent history of the East Bay Rewgional Park District, which turned 75 years old in 2009 and remains the largest regional park district in the nation.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short

Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast

Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast

reviewed by Melanie Jones

Chances are you've sat on the beach and pondered where the sand goes when the waves carry it off, or maybe what the California coast looked like a million years ago, or why it's so darned foggy. Find the answers to these questions and more in the latest addition to the California Natural History Guides series.

From the Oct-Dec 2010 issue
Published October 01, 2010
Length: moderately-short