As the poet Wendell Berry says, “if we do the right things today, we’ll have done all we really can for tomorrow.”
Victoria Schlesinger
Bay Nature’s Winter 2022 Issue and “Interviewing an Animal in Its Own Language”
Considering face-to-face encounters with wild animals.
Uncomfortable Questions and Bay Nature’s New Fall 2021 Issue
Is it success if local policies triumph at the expense of environments elsewhere?
Letter from the Editor: A New Fire Story
Introducing the first themed issue in Bay Nature’s 20 years of publication.
Meet Doug McConnell, Bay Nature’s 2021 Local Hero
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
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
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
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
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
With reasonable precautions, people should spend as much time as possible outdoors, says UCSF Dr. Sohil Sud.