The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band has been barred from Juristac, a place of great cultural importance, for generations. The land has been grazed by cattle and developed for oil production over the years, and now, an investor group wants to build a sand-and-gravel quarry at the site.
California, the most biodiverse state, hopes to stave off the Sixth Extinction by protecting 30 percent of its lands and waters by 2030. How's that going?
In keeping with its three-part mission to acquire, restore, and open land for recreation, Midpen has worked to undo ecological damage to El Corte de Madera.
Private landowners in California hold a huge amount of forest that's primed to burn.
As urban wildlife stakes its claim on the green corridor running through town, the human residents of the county have spent the past two decades arguing over what to do with this 32-mile stretch of train tracks
Scientists estimate that California needs to burn one million acres a year to prevent catastrophic wildfires. That’s more than a single agency can manage, but if you teach one million people to burn one acre each ...
The Bayview-Hunters Point community, city, and state move forward on a first-of-its-kind use of a state park to house the unhoused.
Scientific opinion of beavers has changed over the years, but when it comes to conflict, there's still not many options.
Most conservation plans assume that protecting land works to help biodiversity. Point Blue scientists decided to check and see.
Is it success if local policies triumph at the expense of environments elsewhere?
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