Introducing Bay Nature Magazine’s Winter 2019 issue.
Editor’s Letter: On The Salmon Holding Steady in the Stream
December 28, 2018 •
First Look
Timely news, art, ideas and science from the natural world of Northern California.
Our Favorite Bay Nature Stories of 2018
December 26, 2018 •
Looking back on 2018 and picking some of our favorite stories from the year in Bay Nature.
Our Favorite Bay Nature Photos of 2018
December 20, 2018 •
Favorite pictures published in Bay Nature in 2018, from the Bay Nature editors.
Spotting a Bay Area Mammal Lifer: the American Mink
December 18, 2018 •
It’s quite rare to see them in the Bay Area, but American minks range as far south as Sonoma and Contra Costa.
The Eyes of the Sea Star
December 11, 2018 •
We’re used to bodies having front and back, top and bottom, left and right. But as some common California tidepool creatures show, there’s a totally different way of living.
I Used Facial Recognition Technology on Birds
December 7, 2018 •
Birders know you can recognize individual birds. Can a computer scientist train a machine to do so?
For Beaver Believers, Salvation Lies in a Once-Reviled Rodent
December 7, 2018 •
A new book celebrates the great American history — and hopeful future — of beavers.
Sin Fronteras: The Consequences of Lines on a Map
November 29, 2018 •
There are two ways of seeing the lines on a map, writes Jose Gonzalez. They lead to a bigger point about what it means to live sin fronteras.
Feeling Like an Outsider in an Outside World
November 27, 2018 •
The park ranger who’s popularized the #AsianOutsider hashtag explains how he sees the Bay Area outdoors movement changing.
Above the Tropopause: in Search of a High-Altitude Butterfly
November 26, 2018 •
Butterfly experts guard their secret spots like fishermen. When a friend takes Liam O’Brien to his “spot,” the writer finds himself in a scene from Nabokov.