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.
Parks
Fall Issue 2025
First Cotoni-Coast Dairies Trails Opening At Last
Explore sweeping coastal prairies, redwood forests, and oak woodlands at a new national monument near Santa Cruz
Fall Issue 2025
An Ocean-to-Bay Hike: San Francisco’s Double Cross Trail
The companion to the Crosstown inspires with hidden nature and jaw-dropping views.
Fall Issue 2025
Walking in John Muir’s Footsteps at Alhambra Hills Open Space
Once slated for homes, now open to hikers
Conservation
Map: Where Oodles of Federal Dollars for Nature Have Gone
BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area has topped $1 billion, according to Bay Nature’s most recent tally for our Wild Billions project.
Summer Issue 2025
Accessible Nature, Beyond the Pavement
New kinds of access to nature are emerging for people with disabilities.
Spring Issue 2025
How Molok Luyuk Got Its National Monument Designation (and Not Windmills)
At first it was labeled a wind energy resource area. Then all the wind companies walked away.
Winter Issue 2025
Tunitas Creek: A New Beach Park Is Opening in San Mateo
Upcoming access to a beach with views and interesting geology
Farming and Ranching
A Legal Settlement Will Usher In a Wilder Point Reyes
Most cattle will leave, and an ambitious plan aims to restore coastal scrub, grasslands, and chaparral. But the agreement immediately drew fire from community members, who decry the loss of working ranches and farmworkers.
