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Natural resources managers in the Presidio want to bring native California quail back to...

Skip to main content Currently Reading With a little help from ecologists and a net, a butterfly makes its way back to S.F.'s Presidio FacebookTwitterEmail Presidio Trust ecologist Jonathan Young (left) looks inside a container after capturing a California ringlet butterfly, working with David Harelson and lepidopterist Liam O’Brien in Marin County.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle A group of ecologists, volunteers and a lepidopterist trudged up a Marin hillside in the warm sun last week, nets and coolers in hand. They scoured the grassland for a small butterfly with silver-gray wings and the o...

New wetlands are percolating on San Francisco's northwestern shore, with a hiking trail running through it that provides stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge and urban bird-watching spots. Called Quartermaster Reach Marsh, the nearly seven-acre site is situated next to Crissy Field Marsh within the Presidio, the former U.S. military installation turned national park site. It opened to the public earlier this month after years in the planning and construction stages. Helping spearhead its creation has been Michael Boland, a gay man who is the chief park development and visitor engagement o...