Considering face-to-face encounters with wild animals.
Victoria Schlesinger
Victoria Schlesinger is the editor in chief of Bay Nature.
Uncomfortable Questions and Bay Nature’s New Fall 2021 Issue
September 30, 2021 •
Is it success if local policies triumph at the expense of environments elsewhere?
Letter from the Editor: A New Fire Story
June 23, 2021 •
Introducing the first themed issue in Bay Nature’s 20 years of publication.
Meet Doug McConnell, Bay Nature’s 2021 Local Hero
March 30, 2021 •
Meet Doug McConnell, this year’s Bay Nature Hero, and learn more about his work as a TV journalist telling the stories of Northern California landscapes.
Editor’s Letter: Spring Renewal
March 30, 2021 •
You can smell a burned forest before you see it. An acrid scent hangs in the air for a long time after the flames are out. When my husband, daughter, and I drove into an area of Sonoma County consumed … Read more
Editor’s Letter: Twenty Years
January 3, 2021 •
Upon the publication of our 20th anniversary issue, editor-in-chief Victoria Schlesinger reflects on the past twenty years and looks forward to the next twenty.
Letter from the Editor: Beyond Voting
September 27, 2020 •
We recognize Bay Nature is a regional magazine. We cover the counties touching San Francisco Bay and a bit beyond into Northern California. That’s part of what makes it an unusual publication, one that reports on places and people you … Read more
Taking the Long View for the Summer
June 21, 2020 •
In May, my family and I headed to Sycamore Grove Park near Livermore for a long stroll on Mother’s Day. Something about the dry heat and native, lazy-limbed sycamore trees there feels like an earlier version of California, and it … Read more
Q&A With UCSF Dr. Sohil Sud on Staying Safe Outdoors
June 10, 2020 •
With reasonable precautions, people should spend as much time as possible outdoors, says UCSF Dr. Sohil Sud.
Live Biodiversity
March 24, 2020 •
There’s a certain predictable expression that frequently settles on the face of the friend or family member I’m talking to when I say the word “biodiversity.” I’d call it tolerantly bored.