As Temperatures Change, What Organisms Move North to California?
What are some the biological consequences of climate change in Northern California?
Ask the Naturalist
Where Do Turtles Go in Winter and Summer?
Where do turtles go in the winter and summer? —Alma, Sebastopol I am assuming you are referring to our only native freshwater turtle—the western pond turtle—which you might see basking...
Fasciated Plants and Where to Find Them in the Wild
What is this weird belt-like growth on poison oak? Fasciated plants have fascinated humans for thousands of years due to their gnarled and belt-like growth patterns on stems or bizarrely...
How Do I Start Out Tidepooling?
Which species am I most likely to see in a Northern California tidepool, and how can I try to identify them? There is something fascinating about tidepools. They are places...
Meet the Bay’s Incredible Swimming Worms
I think I saw a worm swimming in the Bay, what is it? It was mid August in 2015 when I first held one, its long thread like body rolling...
What Do Water-Loving Creatures Do in Summer?
How do slugs and salamanders survive the summer? Ah, seasons. The Bay Area may not have the distinct seasonality of New England, but there is a definite cool and rainy...
How Can You Tell a Gopher Snake from a Rattlesnake?
If the snake you encounter looks perturbed, don’t count solely on head shape when you ID it.
There’s a Mole That Only Lives on Angel Island?
S.I. insularis lives only on an island in the middle of the Bay.
Will California Ban Rodenticides that Kill Predators?
The California Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw so-called "second generation" anticoagulant rodenticides.
Are Fox Squirrels Replacing Gray Squirrels in California?
A reader notices more fox squirrels and less native western grays.
