Boom Magazine

[...] . Here in the northwest corner of San Diego County, Los Vallecitos is surrounded by the Southern California megalopolis that stretches from Tijuana to Los Angeles, yet isolated by sizable tracts of [...]

[...] that can quite catch your eye like a tarantula hawk! They are one of the largest wasps in Southern California, measuring in at an impressive one-and-a-half inches. Their exoskeletons are metallic blue [...]

[...] Woods are different experiences than the weekend beach party that might be happening in Southern California. I also find that the motivations for people to get out into nature are different between [...]

[...] from the gardeners and institutional review board authorization from the University of Southern California, where I teach. Under what are known as “human subject” rules in academia, I promised to [...]

[...] to think with nature than the blustery earthen prow of Fraser Point at the northwest tip of Santa Cruz Island. On a clear day, the point offers a magnificent 360-degree panorama. Behind you lie the [...]

[...] to the groves where their ancestors lived. The Amah Mutsun Tribe is collaborating with the National Park Service to restore native grasses and sedges in California’s Pinnacles National Monument. The [...]

[...] —and perhaps the futures of other such places in California and beyond. First, consider the National Park Service, whose relationship with the past is best described as selected memory. Congress [...]

[...] : I am not interested in demonizing or vilifying the park service, because the truth is the National Park Service is part of this country, so it only reflects what this country reflects. And it was [...]

[...] issues. What are the challenges? Finney: I am not interested in demonizing or vilifying the park service, because the truth is the National Park Service is part of this country, so it only reflects [...]

[...] the futures of other such places in California and beyond. First, consider the National Park Service, whose relationship with the past is best described as selected memory. Congress established [...]

[...] -of-water. 13 Stewart, Ordinary Affects, 127. The post Nature’s Haunted House appeared first on Boom Magazine. [...]

[...] Distributions (2012), 1–16, DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12022. The post Field of Genes appeared first on Boom Magazine. [...]

[...] to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.” The post On Observation appeared first on Boom Magazine. [...]

[...] is located at http://www.csupomona.edu/~crs/. The post The End of Camping appeared first on Boom Magazine. [...]

[...] the big bear died. An afternoon’s trip has brought me from my San Ysidro Mountain home to Los Vallecitos, an undulating set of hills near San Mateo Creek. An odd kind of beauty dwells in this place. [...]

[...] of squash and mushroom-stuffed quesadillas. Laughter stretches out until dusk. In inner-city Los Angeles, just west of the downtown high-rise buildings and trendy upscale restaurants is a poor, [...]

[...] that to understand how plants and animals adapt and evolve one has to understand the environmental challenges they face and how, genetically, species have changed in the face of those challenges. [...]

[...] a lush redwood forest. By escaping cities to find nature, campers have been evading the environmental challenges of a truly supportive and humane urban life. John Muir, circa 1902. But camping is in [...]