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sfgate.com > bayarea > article > elegant-tern-san-francisco-22425823.php

Elegant terns are suddenly all over San Francisco shores

15+ hour, 20+ min ago   (310+ words) Elegant terns arrive in big numbers at Crissy Marsh in San Francisco. Royal. Sandwich. Caspian. Elegant. These are the colorful names for different species of terns, some of San Francisco Bay’s most graceful seabirds. A wave of elegant terns — identifiable…...

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sfgate.com > la > article > disney-bison-hart-park-newhall-22392092.php

Walt Disney gifted Newhall a herd of bison. They're still roaming today.

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (757+ words) Bison at Hart Park as seen on Aug. 19, 2026. That’s by design. The park’s founder, William S. Hart, and even Walt Disney himself, would have wanted it that way. “Our animals all live really long lives because they just love living…...

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sfgate.com > news > bayarea > article > regional-members-of-the-public-asked-to-track-22415364.php

Regional: Members Of The Public Asked To Track Monarch Butterfly Sightings

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (225+ words) As western monarch butterflies prepare to retreat to groves along the California coast for the winter, conservationists are asking the public to report sightings ahead of the annual count. "We invite Californians to help support monarch butterfly conservation by taking…...

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sfgate.com > local > article > sea-otters-marin-county-22401194.php

Drakes Estero in Marin County could become the next sea otter hot spot

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (748+ words) Efforts to eradicate them have been largely unsuccessful and even triggered a large population boom in 2014, when the crabs increased “30-fold after about 90 percent had been removed” from Seadrift Lagoon in Stinson Beach. There has been one unlikely hero in…...

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sfgate.com > national-parks > article > arches-canyonlands-biocrusts-22384504.php

The hidden life keeping the southwest's deserts alive

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1431+ words) Biocrusts both produce and reinforce soils, creating the foundation upon which everything else grows. It was well above 90 degrees the day I followed scientists out across the Needles district in Canyonlands National Park. As we stepped off the road, I…...