SF News Trump Admin Pulls Ecologist From Zuckerberg Park Tour But It Totally Wasn't Over Climate Change Facebook founder and fleece enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg toured Montana's Glacier National Park on July 15 and as one might imagine, the tour's guest list was a hot-button issue. KPIX 5 reports that the
SF News Cormorants Disdain New Bay Bridge Despite Millions Spent On Nests For Them Like a bower bird desperately seeking to attract a mate, Caltrans and other agencies have spent perhaps lavishly to maintain the habitat of the double-crested cormorants who made their nests on the old
SF News Year-Long Street Tree Census Shows 20,000 More Than Previously Estimated A couple of Lorax types at the Planning Department launched a year-long tree tabulation last January, EveryTreeSF census, and now the results are in. A 2012 partial tree census in the Bayview, North
SF News Albino Redwoods, Unexplained 'Ghosts Of The Forest,' Might Have A Powerful Purpose Albino redwoods — ghastly pale, stunted versions of the famous tree species that aren't "red" (or even green) at all but instead nearly white — have left arborists scratching their heads since they were first
Arts & Entertainment Generous Rain, Regulations Make Point Reyes A Mushroom Magnet For Oakland's Debbie Viess, all mushrooms are a bit magical. "They're ephemeral," the co-founder of the Bay Area Mycological Society tells SFist. "Of course you can walk in the woods most of the
SF News $5 Million Lawsuit After Giant Fisherman's Wharf Area Pine Cone Crushes Man's Skull A photo posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Jul 22, 2015 at 4:31pm PDT Surely I'm not the only person who assumed that the above sign, posted to a fence at an
SF News Young Yosemite Campers Killed By Falling Tree Limb Two young campers were killed in Yosemite National Park this morning when a oak tree's limb fell onto their tent as they slept. According to Yosemite National Park spokesman Scott Gediman, the two
Arts & Entertainment (Video) Joyful Otters Frolic In Snow At SF Aquarium At the San Francisco Aquarium, a romp or raft of otters (those are real terms, folks) had a snowy treat this season. That's right, real snow was dumped on the otter playground/enclosure,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Singing Frogs San Francisco has a love-hate relationship with the Pacific chorus frog. [BayNature] This video takes you on a tour of opening night at Chris Cosentino's Cockscomb. [Eater] The Street Sheet got a redesign
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Nesting Hummingbird kicking it at home. Photo by Gerard Livernois.
SF News Once Treacherous Devil's Slide Now A Nature Trail Devil's Slide, that crazy-dangerous half-mile of Highway 1 south of the city that had a habit of both washing away and causing occasional deaths, reopens Thursday as the Devil's Slide Trail, a 1.
Arts & Entertainment Gorgeous Yosemite Time-Lapse Video Reminds Us We Are Tiny, Insignificant On weeks like this, when the Internet echo chamber rattles way too much and everyone on the planet seems to be up in arms over a couple people who all acted like goons
SF News City Decides To Take Care of Trees, Add More Greenery Though 'green' in its lefty politics, San Francisco is actually not that green in a literal sense. See, city trees shade only a mere 13 percent of city streets, putting us to shame
Arts & Entertainment Video: Let's Go Hover Through The Redwoods In Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck wrote: "The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood
SF News San Francisco Man Gets Lost In Mendocino Woods, Survives On Squirrels, Snakes For 19 Days 72-year-old Gene Penaflor was just rescued Saturday after getting lost and disoriented in a remote part of Mendocino County while on a hunting trip. He ended up spending 19 days alone surviving on
SF News Video: Gorgeous, Harrowing Rim Fire Time Lapse This time lapse of the Rim Fire now in progress, shot from the Crane Flate helicopter base from Glacier Point, was posted by the National Park Service. It shows the effects, both disastrous
SF News Epic Lightning Storm Strikes San Francisco, In Photos Lightning storms are so unusual that you may have thought it was just your imagination. But no: last night marked a rare and exciting electrostatic event. Behold, last night's lightning strikes captured on
Arts & Entertainment Bernal's Wild Marmot Finally Nabbed The charismatic wild marmot one commenter said "should run for Board of Supervisors" after an SFist interview has finally been captured in Noe Valley. The self-described "giant ground squirrel" was nabbed after succumbing
SF News Tree Wars Brewing Over Removal Of Nonnative Eucalyptus A city plan to remove about 18,000 nonnative plants from San Francisco public parks over the next 20 years has some residents up in arms over "plant fascism." The plan has been
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: California Quail Stud Photo by andertho. He explains how he snapped this shot: Taken in Joseph D. Grant County Park, Santa Clara County, California, USA. I set up my Nikkor 40mm f/2.8 (w/ 1.
SF News Monster Goldfish Invading Lake Tahoe! Do you suffer from a fear of swimming in lakes (or "limnophobia")? Are you leery of having something slimy and scaly brush up against you whilst blithely enjoying a day at the lake?
Arts & Entertainment Video: Grey Whale Spotted Near Lands End Nature photog David Cruz spotted this grey whale on Sunday while kicking it at Lands End. "The gray whale breached and stayed for a bit near Seal Rocks," notes Richmond Blog. "Maybe he
Arts & Entertainment Video: Starling Murmuration In Downtown S.F. Our dear friends at Barbary Coast Consulting captured this mesmerizing video of a starling murmuration. What makes this video so special, compared to other murmuration videos, is that this one occurs in downtown
SF News Yosemite Officials Warn 1700 Recent Visitors May Be at Risk for Rare Rodent-Borne Disease Officials from Yosemite National Park are reaching out to an estimated 1,700 past visitors for fear they have been exposed to a rare rodent-borne disease. In the wake of the recent diagnosis
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Gorgeous Cluster Of Monarch Butterflies Shot at Ardenwood Farms in Fremont, Flickr user sunmallia captured this group of monarch butterflies. "It took me a long while to really see them as they look like a clump of dead
