The Northern California black walnut led scientists into a genetic mystery: is this a rare tree, or a common one?
Tree Detectives
January 6, 2020 •
Mary Ellen Hannibal
Mary Ellen Hannibal is an award-winning environmental journalist and the author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction.
The New Naturalists
September 16, 2019 •
There’s a resurgence in exploring and documenting nature worldwide
On the Hunt for Mount Tam’s Two Known Badgers
September 25, 2017 •
Camera traps show there are at least two badgers living around Mount Tam. Writer Mary Ellen Hannibal goes looking for them.
Bay Nature Founder and Publisher David Loeb Hits the Trail
September 25, 2017 •
Bay Nature founder David Loeb is leaving the magazine to spend more time exploring nature. He talks to Mary Ellen Hannibal about the change.
Stanford Paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly Takes on the Future
November 28, 2016 •
Stanford University paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly, an advisor to Governor Jerry Brown and the new faculty director of the Jasper Ridge Ecological Reserve, looks into the deep past to unlock the future.
Rekindling The Old Ways
April 6, 2016 •
The Amah Mutsun work to recover traditional ecological knowledge.
Listen : Mutsun story about the origin of thunder
April 5, 2016 •
The last fluent speaker of the Mutsun language was Ascension Solorsano, a famous healer who lived near what is now Gilroy. Before she died in 1930, she passed along the tribe’s linguistic and cultural traditions to Smithsonian Institute anthropologist John … Read more
New Paradigms for Stewardship
March 31, 2016 •
In 2005, the tribal elders of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band came to Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez and reminded him that California Indians have a responsibility to steward Creation. Lopez agreed with them, but he had a big problem: no … Read more
TBC3: Wrestling Climate Change to the Ground
August 4, 2014 •
It’s not “news” to Bay Nature readers that climate change is in the process of giving a serious thwack to living systems. But what’s less well understood is how plants and animals and the habitats they inhabit are moving—and being altered—in response to changing temperature and precipitation patterns.
Impressionism, Pointillism, Statistical Processing: Finding Truths in the Patterns of Nature
July 2, 2014 •
The beauty of science is that it really does search for truth. It is easy to follow the tracks and trails of one or several of nature’s patterns and yet be completely lost as to the whole picture.