Spring 2004

If you’re going to Palo Alto’s Arastradero Preserve, take I-280 to the Page Mill Road exit and plan to get lost a couple of times.

In today’s stingy political climate, winning arguments for restoring damaged ecosystems can depend on convincing bottom-liners that working with nature instead of fighting it saves money and boosts economies.

In 2003, builders in california started 191,866 new homes and apartment units—the most housing starts since 1989 and the most apartment units since 1990.

Botanists have an advantage over zoologists—their subjects sit still, more or less. They can’t hide, and they can’t run either.

As a marine biologist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Shana Goffredi has seen extraordinary things.