Entries by Wild Equity

Legislative Boundary Map

The GGNP’s legislative boundary is much larger than the boundary familiar to most park visitors, because the GGNP has established a wide variety of partnerships with adjacent landowners in order […]

Presidio Wildlife Run

Sunday, September 23, from 9 a.m. -12 p.m. – Grab your running shoes and join Wild Equity on a morning jog through the beautiful San Francisco Presidio to see and […]

WALC in the Wild!

Wild Equity is collaborating with Downtown High School’s WALC (Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative) program once again for another “Endangered Semester” where the students compete in their very own mini-Golden […]

SF Lessingia Restoration Day

Saturday, September 1, 2012, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m — Join Jonathan “Coty” Sifuentes-Winter of the National Park Service to help restore habitat for the endangered San Francisco Lessingia. Due […]

Last Day for Big Year Monthly Prize!

Hello GGNP Big Year participants, this is the last day to fulfill the monthly Big Year prize request for August! To be eligible for the $25 gift certificate to Sports […]

Special Status Update: Coho salmon

The GGNRA Inventory and Monitoring Program is more than half way through its monitoring season for Coho salmon. Unfortunately, it appears Coho salmon smolt (young salmon) are not doing well. […]

Natural Areas Program Degraded; Wild Equity Comments Help Improve Plan

The new Sharp Park plan incorporates an 18-hole golf course into the “recovery” area for the San Francisco garter snake and the California red-legged frog—even though the golf course is the primary threat to both species’ existence at Sharp Park. The plan also suggests that Sharp Park Golf Course is an historic resource—even though the City’s own Historic Preservation Commission could not concur that the golf course retains historic integrity.

Steelhead Restoration Day

Sunday, August 19, 2012, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — Join Wild Equity and the Golden Gate Parks Conservancy for a chance to see endangered Coho Salmon and Steelhead Trout […]

Sea Watch for Endangered Sea Creatures

Saturday, August 18, 2012, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. — Join Brent Plater of the Wild Equity Institute at Fort Funston to learn about the endangered marine mammals that exist […]

Film Night with Wild Equity

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Join Wild Equity and SF Environment to watch a screening of The Big Year in honor of the GGNP Endangered […]

August 31: Deadline for August Prize

Hello GGNP Big Year participants, August 31st is the last day to fulfill the monthly Big Year prize request for August! To be eligible for the $25 gift certificate to […]

Pale Male Petition to Obama: Stop Nest Destruction Now

The Wild Equity Institute filed a formal administrative petition with the Obama Administration today, asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) to protect migratory bird nests from destruction unless and until prior written authorization from the Service is obtained.

Sunday Streets Bayview/Dogpatch

Join Wild Equity for another fun Sunday Streets in the Bayview/Dogpatch neighborhood! Visit us at the Warm Water Cove (24th st.). Hope to see you there! Get directions here.

San Mateo Woolly Sunflower Walk

Saturday, May 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Join Brent Plater of the Wild Equity Institute and Tim Sullivan of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission for a leisurely walk into […]

Power Plants and Nitrogen

The California Energy Commission has approved five power plants in the immediate vicinity of the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge. Each of these plants causes nitrogen to be deposited at […]

Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose

The Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose, Oenothera deltoides ssp. howellii, is a short-lived perennial plant in the evening-primrose family (Onagraceae). It has large, white flowers that bloom from March to September. […]

Contra Costa Wallflower

The Contra Costa Wallflower, Erysimum capitatum var. angustatum, is a biennial or perennial sub-shrub in the Brassicaceae (mustard) family. It grows fairly erect and can reach 18 inches in height, […]

Make Your Tax-Deductible Contribution to WEI Today!

2011 was an inauspicious year for the Bay Area’s environmental and justice movements. Park and community service budgets were slashed, and environmentally destructive developments were green-lighted by public officials around […]

Join the Big Year!

Participating in the Endangered Species Big Year is easy: First, sign-up for the Big Year. Signing up is a two-step process: first join the Wild Equity Institute’s on-line community by […]

Join the Wild Equity Institute Today!

As our second full year draws to a close, the Wild Equity Institute has had several remarkable successes. And people are noticing. Over 70 different media outlets covered our work […]