Abbotts Lagoon: October
The first thing that is apt to raise your eyesAbove the dove-grey and silvery thicketsOf lupine and coyote bush and artichoke thistleOn the sandy, winding path from the parking lotTo...
Art and Design
Art for Auklets
Just a thousand yards off the San Mateo coast sits one of the most densely populated places in the Bay Area, with hundreds of residents sharing nine rocky acres, all...
Geography of Hope Returns
After a one-year hiatus, the organizers behind the popular Geography of Hope conference in Point Reyes Station are back with a new topic. Event organizers honored Wallace Stegner at the...
On Mount Diablo
Here, the sedimentary rocksof the town where I was raisedlift up, the layers of ancient seabed exposed in ridges running left to right, time turned on its side– Eocene, Miocene,...
People in Nature Photo Contest Winners
In spring 2010, Bay Nature teamed up with Sarber's Cameras on a photo contest featuring images of people in the natural places they love. Dozens of local photographers submitted hundreds...
West Marin Night During Perseid Showers
The sugars drop down in the berries,no longer specific. That mangy deersleeps the summer off. You’ve been herethe night away, a body with its bit of local pain. Under...
EndangerBus Feature: Mission Blue Butterfly
If you're lucky some spring day in a few small patches of land near San Francisco, you may catch the glint of a male mission blue butterfly's iridescent wings. If...
Book Review: The Laws Pocket Guide Set: San Francisco Bay Area
Created by Bay Nature contributor John Muir Laws, this is a compact and very handy set of guides to common species of the Bay Area.
Book Review: The Place that Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
This far-reaching anthology of poems is a lovely collection that speaks to what it is to be natural in the Bay Area.
Painted Wings
MaryAnn Nardo's luminous watercolors capture species' whole life cycles, from larvae feeding on host plants to winged adults in search of nectar.
