california golden chanterelle (a natural list, no. 7)
you can indeed (safely) eat it
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pacific spiny lumpsucker (a natural list, no. 6)
we should all aspire to be as confidently bad at something as they are, i think
yellow-billed magpie (a natural list, no. 5)
they love a good oak tree
bay checkerspot butterfly (a natural list, no. 4)
it's from the bay area & subsists on plantains — sound familiar?
tule elk (a natural list, no. 3)
I kinda don’t usually care about most land mammals all that much (sometimes), but this one is quite stately.
coastal sagebrush (a natural list, no. 2)
a fire-following chaparral icon
san francisco garter snake (a natural list, no. 1)
they're beauty, they're grace, they eat mostly frogs (which seems like a whole thing because the frog they like to eat is also threatened, but oh well, that's nature I guess)