Introducing the first themed issue in Bay Nature’s 20 years of publication.
Author Archives: Victoria Schlesinger
Victoria Schlesinger is the editor in chief of Bay Nature.
Spring Issue 2021
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.
Spring Issue 2021
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
Winter Issue 2021
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.
Fall Issue 2020
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
Summer Issue 2020
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
Coronavirus
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.
Spring Issue 2020
Live Biodiversity
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.
Bay Nature
Bay Nature During COVID-19
Dear Bay Nature reader, Like all of you, we at Bay Nature are struggling to adapt and understand our new world of COVID-19. First of all, we hope everyone is doing OK and staying healthy. Our next thoughts are of … Read more
Winter Issue 2020
Howell Mountain Forest Opens in Napa, a First in 110 Years
Pacific Union College Demonstration and Experimental Forest in Napa. Trail: 4.5 mi, 370 ft elevation gain, loop
