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Shipwrecked
I didn’t mean to be gone so long! But a family event, a work trip, other odds and ends managed to pile up, and look, it’s been weeks. But things have been happening; the documentary now has a name:...
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No Island is an Island
Yesterday biologists banded and tagged two bald eagles chicks born earlier this year on Santa Cruz Island, in Southern California’s Channel Islands. Two chicks hatched on Santa Rosa Island, too, the...
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Empty: The Inland Island of the Carrizo Plain
This post is by Jeremy Miller, a Middlebury Environmental Journalism Fellow. All photos are by him. Keep an eye out for his work. And check out his blog, Feeding the Bloath. The image of an island that...
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‘Lotsa Water
I am not as close a water watcher as some, but it’s nearly impossible to live in California and not be at least a little preoccupied by water, be it salty, glacial, diminishing, rising, fought over,...
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Birding on the Rock
My story about birding on Alcatraz aired earlier this week on San Francisco NPR affiliate KALW. I happened upon the authors of the Alcatraz bird blog Maganrord while doing a different interview on...
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Politics of a rock
Update: I changed the name of this post. I originally titled it “They’re not all keepers,” meaning not all stories are keepers, but then realized that it probably read more like, not all state symbols...
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Weeds
One of the trees that comes up when you’re talking about California’s endemic species (let’s just assume this is something you have conversations about, or that you’re interested in reading about...
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East Coast vs. West Coast
This past weekend I went to the Jersey shore (not the regrettable tattoo and binge drinking part). Looking at maps of the coastline there and all the way down the eastern seaboard, down to Florida,...
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Migrations
There’s a lot of traffic in California in the winter. Photo of sandhill cranes at the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve by Flickr user lorises. Sandhill cranes are wading around in the Central Valley. They...
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Mice Make Trouble in the Farallones
The Farallon Islands have been crawling with house mice for years. They may have stowed away on boats and ridden out to the islands as early as the 1800s. Mice can be annoying or — if they’re your...
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