As the only non-profit organization dedicated to restoration & stewardship of San Francisco’s natural heritage, Nature in the City plays a critical role in securing our city’s wildlands for future generations.
With its diverse neighborhood villages and tremendous grassroots energy, San Francisco has unparalleled potential to restore healthy relationships between people and the nature where they live.
Green Hairstreak Butterfly - photo by Matt Zlatunich
San Francisco's biodiversity and wildlife habitats are fragmented and severely impacted by invasive plants, insensitive uses, agency neglect, and a lack of awareness.
Kids and adults are increasingly disconnected from nature; global species extinction proceeds at an epic pace.
How you can help save nature in the city:
* Volunteer to do habitat restoration
* Plant a wildlife-friendly backyard
* Advocate that City officials take care of San Francisco's nature and natural areas.
Native wildflowers in the Coast Guard grassland on Yerba Buena Island
The Ecology of San FranciscoWild Nature in the City Local Environmental CrisisConsensus has emerged that Earth is warming rapidly toward a potential global climate catastrophe. San Francisco is located in a global biodiversity hotspot, harboring myriad rare and threatened habitats for endangered plants and animals, and the wild nature of San Francisco is experiencing its own environmental crisis:
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City's watersheds and biodiversity are fragmented and
severely impacted
by invasive plants,
ecologically insensitive uses, and public and institutional lack of
awareness; Our Local Nature
Imagine the future city of San Francisco when our rare critters and their habitats are conserved for generations within an ecologically sustainable network of restored watersheds and wildlife corridors. Such an ecological future is possible if we evolve a new cultural ecology of local nature stewardship. **************************************************************
Save Our State Parks!!
Our governator Arnold Schwarnegger, is at it again, NOT ONLY with a vast array of cuts to human social services, BUT ALSO now with a proposal to destroy the greatest thing about our State, the California State Parks!
The Governor's latest budget proposal would shutter at least 80% of California's entire state park system! We went through this last year, but this year is absolutely horrific! The governor has really shown his colors this time.
To catch up, please check our our newsletter archive, where you will find a number of newsletters and action alerts about the state parks crisis.
*************************************************************** Update from the California State Parks Foundation, June 29:
Sunday night, the Assembly passed a "revenue neutral" bill that contained several tax measures, including the State Park Access Pass. But, the Governor has already indicated he will veto the bill.
On Monday, the California State Parks Foundation held a display on the Capitol lawn with more than 200 pictures taken during the SOS weekend and got feedback from many legislators that they want to keep state parks open. They also delivered more than 1,649 pages of petitions and 2,400 postcards to each of the "Big 5." The petitions are in addition to the over 157,000 letters and emails sent to legislators asking them to save our state parks!
Please contact the Big 5 and tell them to Save Our State Parks!
*************************************************************** Update from the California State Parks Foundation, June 22:
The Legislature did not take a budget vote today, they may vote up Wednesday, June 24, possibly even later in the week. The State Park Access Pass is still part of the budget proposal, though you've probably seen that opposition from members of the Republican party to tax proposals remains strong. Your help in generating letters, emails and calls to all legislators remains especially important. Their phone numbers, Capitol and district, are listed below.
There were more than 20 events statewide last weekend, for the Save Our State Parks weekend! Pictures are posted online. *************************************************************** Please stay tuned to the Nature in the City website for more updates. Sign up for our newsletter to receive more information and action alerts.
Sacramento Capital Phone: (916) 651-4006 District Phone: (916) 651-1529 District Phone 2: (213) 620-3000
Riverside/San Diego Counties Capital Phone: (916) 651-4036 District Phone: (951) 676-1020 District Phone 2: (619) 596-3136
Los Angeles Capital Phone: (916) 319-2047 District Phone: (323) 937-4747 Central Coast Capital Phone: (916) 319-2033 District Phone: (805) 549-3381
Statewide (916) 445-2841 (559) 445-5295 (213) 897-0322 (951)680-6860 (619) 525-4641 (415) 703-2218
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