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The article discusses the importance of managed rangelands in the San Francisco Bay Area, California to wildlife and native plants at a time of climate change. Topics include the land trust movement and their working lands programs like the locavore food movement, and the Conservation Lands Network report of the Bay Area Open Space Council on its plan for preserving biodiversity. It also references the paper "The California Serengeti" by California State Parks senior ecologist E. Breck Parkman.

An interview with artist Tanja Geis is presented. When asked about what viewers take away with them after seeing his artworks, he refers to the feeling of connection to the subject. He also mentions about what his art offers to the viewers that they cananot get from reading a research paper or listening to a talk from a scientist.

The article talks about a paper published in the "American Journal of Botany" focusing on Chamisso bush lupine and (Lupinus chamissonis) and Tidestrom's lupine (Lupinus tidestromii) plants and discuss the role of deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) in the plants' growth.