A poster at BAHIKER.com wonders if the poison oak is worse this year, and if there’s a product that can prevent the wonderful itchfest that ensues when you brush up against it. It doesn’t bother me all that much so…
Wildlife
East Bay wildflower guide
by tom • April 9, 2008 • 4 Comments
The East Bay Regional Parks District is again showing its Web strategy leaves all the other districts in the dirt: It has PDF guides to the wildflowers sprouting in each of the district’s parks, plus an overall guide of all…
Find your watershed
by tom • April 4, 2008 • 0 Comments
This is a nifty tool: a map of watersheds of the West. You enter your city name and a map highlights all the areas nearby from which water flows into it. How it works is here. Link via the Daily…
Hidden Treasures of the West
by tom • April 4, 2008 • 0 Comments
The Wilderness Society has a couple of excellent videos profiling Bureau of Land Management properties. Here’s Part I (which mentions our beloved Lost Coast): Here’s Part II: The society’s also urging folks to send Congress a note ahead of next…
Hot falcon sex update
by tom • March 25, 2008 • 4 Comments
Those sexy peregrine falcons have been at it again, judging from the webcam high on a ledge of the San Jose City Hall, where the happy couple are warming four eggs (“they look like little red potatoes,” Melissa exclaims) for…
More Bay Area wildflower links
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 1 Comment
Sunset magazine’s Fresh Dirt blog has a bunch of pretty pictures and tips for finding flowery goodness. The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District holds multiple guided walks each weekend at their dozens of protected swaths of open space on the…
Wildflowers and more from Henry Coe State Park
by tom • March 18, 2008 • 5 Comments
It’s not exactly a riot of color out there just yet, but there’s plenty for alert eyes to see. Oddly enough I’m still not seeing many California poppies in parks this season, but keep seeing tons growing along roads —…
Tunnel View Trees Gone At Long Last!
by tom • March 14, 2008 • 5 Comments
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seethed in impotent rage at having to put up with large Ponderosa pines blocking my inalienable right to soak up all there is to see at Yosemite’s Tunnel View. Finally, this crime…
Bolinas Lagoon wildlife preserve reopening
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 0 Comments
Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Bolinas Lagoon Preserve, three miles north of Stinson Beach, reopens this weekend and stays open till July 13. The pitch: it’s when 100 nesting pairs of egrets and herons return to a grove of redwoods near the…