​For the past three years, I’ve been teaching an Urban Ecology class at RFK Community Schools in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. K-Town has one of the lowest percentages of tree cover in the city, and the school campus, built only nine years ago, is lined with concrete. In spite of these challenges–or maybe because of them–there is so much for students to observe and learn. On our last trip outside, we saw a Western Gull rip apart a discarded sandwich. Near the landscaped entrance to campus, house sparrows were hopping about looking for food. One student shouted, “A hawk!” and sure enough, a red-tailed hawk was soaring overhead. Another student informed the class of ​the location of its nest on the other side of the softball field.

​Durante los últimos tres años, he enseñado una clase de Ecología Urbana en las Escuelas Comunitarias RFK en el barrio de Koreatown en Los Ángeles. K-Town tiene uno de los porcentajes más bajos de cubierta de árbol en la ciudad, y el campus de la escuela, construido hace solo nueve años, está revestido de concreto. A pesar de estos desafíos, o tal vez debido a ellos, hay tanto que los estudiantes pueden observar y aprender. En nuestro último viaje afuera, vimos a una gaviota occidental comiendo un sándwich desechado. ​Cerca de la entrada ajardinada al campus, los gorriones hacían brincos buscando comida.Un estudiante gritó: "¡Un halcón!" Y, efectivamente, un halcón de cola roja se elevaba por encima. Otro estudiante informó a la clase la ubicación ​de su nido en el otro lado del campo de softball.

​The 2018 breeding season was an eventful one for Snowy Plovers here in the South San Francisco Bay. SFBBO staff faced cold and drizzly mornings to start the season, swarms of mosquitoes and triple digit temperatures in the middle of the summer, and long days in the field throughout. Our hard work paid off, as we monitored 269 nests in 22 ponds spread throughout the South Bay, with 79% of all nests found at Eden Landing. ​Pond E14, where we have invested a large amount of time and resources in recent years monitoring the large oyster shell enhancement, ​...