California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental problems and impaired brain function in children.
Farming & Ranching
The San Francisco Bay Area may be one of the densest metropolitan areas of the country, but roughly 40 percent of the region's total land area is made up of farms and rangelands.
The Largest Land Sale in California
September 30, 2019 •
An ecological history of a massive ranch for sale in the Bay Area.
Photo Essay: The Vegan Trout
July 10, 2019 •
Fish raised on farms generally eat their ground-up oceanic cousins. A farm in Susanville is trying to change that.
A Time of Reckoning in the Central Valley
June 23, 2019 •
Climate change is upending agriculture and land use in California’s Central Valley
Photo Essay: Climate Change in the Central Valley
June 23, 2019 •
Photographer Jonno Rattman spent a week photographing the Central Valley for Bay Nature’s summer 2019 cover story, “A Time of Reckoning”. He was struck, as he traveled, by the near total absence of people — it was, he says, one … Read more
Crows are Wicked Smart
December 28, 2018 •
Should an animal’s intelligence change the way we treat it?
More Goats, Less Fire?
October 1, 2018 •
With wildfires likely to continue, land managers turn to a preemptive firefighting tool: grazers
Point Reyes Elk Test Positive for Disease
February 28, 2016 •
A potentially fatal bacterial disease has been found among a free-roaming tule elk herd at Point Reyes National Seashore, raising concerns about the close proximity of wildlife to cattle on national parkland.
On the Fence
October 1, 2015 •
The recovery of the nearly extinct Tule Elk has become a dilemma for the park service, ranchers, and environmentalists at Point Reyes.
On a Now-Protected Ranch Above Tomales Bay, a Chance to ‘Give the Land What It Deserves’
July 10, 2015 •
A rare agricultural biodiversity survey gives MALT a chance to explore its stunning new acquisition above Tomales Bay.