ON OUR COVER February 2011

Tall Ship Matthew Turner Launches From Sausalito

BY BC STAFF Published: May, 2017   Matthew Turner—a historic, sustainable wooden brigantine schooner designed to provide experiential education for students—is the first tall ship built and launched in the San Francisco Bay Area in nearly 100 years. The ship rolled down her launch ramp at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dock in Sausalito […]

Let There be a “There” for Oakland

Editorial By bobby winstonPublished: September, 2006 What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, write about it if I like or anything, if I like, but not there, there is no there there. — Gertrude Stein Well, quite a where is planned for […]

Ducks Unlimited Strives to Bring Wetlands Back

By Bill PicturePublished: May, 2009    Memphis-based Ducks Unlimited is currently overseeing four large-scale wetland and tidal marsh restoration projects here in the Bay Area. Under DU’s guidance, tidal wetland on former commercial salt ponds along the Napa River will be restored to its original condition, as will salt marsh in Newark’s Don Edwards San […]