Valley of Water and Wine
Changing Course Along the Napa River

by Glen Martin

The Napa Valley was once a place of enormous natural bounty, fed by a vibrant, healthy river teeming with salmon and steelhead. Today, the valley is more famous for its managed bounty of grapes and fine wine. The river, hemmed in by vineyards, has too often been relegated to the status of a waste canal. But now a unique alliance of growers and scientists has come together to give the Napa's upper reach a chance to regain some of its wildness.

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Botanic Magic
A Gathering of Natives in Tilden Park

by Sue Rosenthal

On just ten acres in the Berkeley hills, there's an enchanting garden that hosts much of California's vast botanic diversity. The Regional Parks Botanic Garden—Northern California's only public garden focused on our state's native plants—is a center for conservation, research, and public education. Rare and endangered plants from around the state have found a refuge here. And thousands of children and adults alike have walked the garden's paths, under the spell of our native flora.

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Standing the Tests of Time
The Art of the Sea Urchin

by Gary Brand/Dan Rademacher

Walk patiently along a few ocean beaches in the Bay Area, and you just might find objects of stunning beauty that also provide clues to a lost world, fossil sand dollars that are as much as 2 million years old. These fossils, not shells but skeletons called tests, show up only near Daly City and Point Reyes, so it's a privilege to find intact specimens that have survived the rigors of the coast for many centuries.

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The Rock in the Redwoods
Tafoni Tales from El Corte de Madera

by Carolyn Strange

Take a hike to a scene of otherworldly geology, hidden away in this Peninsula preserve's forests of tanoak, Douglas-fir, and second-growth redwood.

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Baltimore Canyon

by Jessica Taekman

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Little Yosemite (Sunol Regional Wilderness)

by Matthew Bettelheim

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Uvas Canyon County Park

by Dan Rademacher

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Letter from the Publisher

by David Loeb

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Forest Lowlife
Mosses, Liverworts, Hornworts

by Glenn Keator

This winter, discover the miniature world of mosses and their kin.

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Making Peace with Coyote

by Clifford Agocs

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A Hardy Californian
Botanist Lester Rowntree

by Lester Rowntree

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Duck! It’s Time for Winter Waterfowl

by Mike Koslosky

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What were those fins off Ocean Beach?

by Michael Ellis

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Which spot in the Bay Area gets the most rainfall and which the least?

by Michael Ellis

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Ear to the Ground
News from the Conservation Community and the Natural World

by Aleta George

Lake Merritt restoration, Santa Cruz coastal protection, condor exhibit, and more...