With Dams Removed, Spawning Salmon Are Heading Up Alameda Creek
These chinooks are likely hatchery strays. But they are still an ecosystem boon—and flaming-bright symbols of restoration at work.
Category: Stewardship
The San Francisco Bay Area is bejeweled with hundreds of parks and open space preserves as well as a rich set of laws and policies meant to ensure the survival of vulnerable species and ecosystems. Real people made this happen through a dedicated call to stewardship.
Split Verdict Over State of the Estuary
This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring stories from the frontlines of climate resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. The 2025 State of Our Estuary assessment, released this fall at a regional conference, takes the … Read more
In These Gardens, New Home Lands Grow
On the blended ecologies that first-generation immigrants tend.
Unburned: An Investigation
To protect the Plumas National Forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn it—intentionally. Can $274 million do the job?
A Land Back Success for the Amah Mutsun Within Its Historical Territory
The tribe has been landless for more than 200 years.
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.
Local Heroes 2025: Avroh Shah, Young Leader
Avroh Shah is fighting for the nature he loves.
Why Cut Redwoods?
A counterintuitive approach to conservation gains urgency in the face of drought and wildfires in California.
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.
