The camping shortage is brutal, and the latest federal lands chaos doesn’t help. Streamlined permitting could help more Californians go camping—and rural landowners to care for their properties.
The Alameda whipsnake is a true local. Yet it remains a stranger to us—which makes protecting it trickier.
Picture a giant Rubik’s cube that costs $6–11 billion to solve. That’s State Route 37.
Once slated for homes, now open to hikers
Explore sweeping coastal prairies, redwood forests, and oak woodlands at a new national monument near Santa Cruz
The companion to the Crosstown inspires with hidden nature and jaw-dropping views.
A colony of hundreds of small animals, whose symbiotic bacteria pumps out human medicine.
Life during fall brings with it a little bit of whimsy, the cerulean sky, and a shimmer of promise.
On the blended ecologies that first-generation immigrants tend.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
