Spring 2023 Editor’s Letter: Guess Who’s Been Named a Bay Area Superhero?
"These are folks who speak with their actions and choices over days, years, and decades, and motivate us all to do the same," writes editor-in-chief Victoria Schlesinger.
Author Archives: Victoria Schlesinger
Victoria Schlesinger is the editor in chief of Bay Nature.
Editor’s Letter, Fall 2022: Hellos and Goodbyes
This is a season of change for Bay Nature, as we welcome new people and say goodbye to others who have shaped the magazine.
Bay Nature Summer 2022 Editor’s Letter: Summer Reading
An introduction to Bay Nature magazine's summer 2022 print issue.
Bay Nature Spring 2022 Editor’s Letter: Do Right Today
As the poet Wendell Berry says, “if we do the right things today, we’ll have done all we really can for tomorrow.”
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.
