This is the fourth and most recent San Diego Bay Book published by High Tech High juniors and their teachers. The book tells conservation stories from around the Bay, and is about the coexistence of humanity and wildlife. It is creatively woven together with original research, novel science, historical investigations, interviews and colorful graphics.

The focus of the guide is San Diego Bay and its surrounding regions, which have the unique combination of rapid urbanization, high biodiversity, and large numbers of rare and unique species. The book also taps into the universal theme of finding a balance between economic growth and biological conservation. With a forward by E.O. Wilson and a preface by our very own Dr. Jane, you do not want to miss out on this book! Buy it today!

Praise for "San Diego: A Call for Conservation:"

“San Diego Bay:, A Call for Conservation achieves a perfect balance of warning, encouragement, lament and celebration.  The authors unflinchingly detail the errors of their elders, but give plenty of ink to their successes, equally valuable as lessons.  This brilliant, elegant volume is at once a source for our present and a prescription for our future--a future which, thankfully, is in the hands of the authors themselves and young earth advocates like them.”

--Ted Williams
Editor-at-Large, Audubon magazine

“An astounding feat of intellectual and moral synthesis. If there is a better, more future-thinking high school program anywhere in our galaxy, I haven’t heard of it.”
-- Carl Safina
President Blue Ocean Institute, MacArthur Fellow

“San Diego Bay: A Call for Conservation examines the habitats and fauna of a region from a broad perspective of change through interaction with human impact. It is readable, diverse, thoughtful and informative in providing historical background and a wide range of problems and approaches to their solutions. While I can highly recommend the content of the book to a broad audience it is the process of producing the book that is of scintillating brilliance. Natural history is asking questions of nature and using all the tools of science to seek answers. The faculty of High Tech High have lead their students on a quest for natural history knowledge and how to fold this into an approach to sustainability. The greatest rewards for this effort will appear in the coming decades when these students participate in their communities as uniquely informed citizens who can help lead our civilization to a better future.”

--Chuck Baxter,
Professor Emeritus, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University

High Tech High students and teachers also released 3 previous books, as well as a DVD entitled "Students of Consequence: African Bushmeat Expedition."

Read more about the Call for Conservaion and other High Tech High projects here!