Summer Slog
Why oh why do the lowest of each day’s tides only happen around my favorite swim hour?
Category: From the Magazine
Naturalist’s Notebook: Gopher Tricks
Many predators have an eye out for Botta's pocket gophers.
How the Landscape Does Its Quiet Work
Landscapes are not just scenery. They are places where people learn skills, traditions, and a kind of hospitality that can last across generations.
Editor’s Letter: Acre by Acre
Consider any single acre of land in the Bay Area today and all the lives it may have lived.
Price-Tagging Nature
Inside mitigation banking, a multibillion-dollar industry where restoring and preserving rare habitat and species makes big money.
AI Is a Place
Artificial intelligence is not magic, or placeless, or limitless. It is nature: wind, water, coal.
Summer 2026 Almanac: Fruiting Bodies
Life during summer … bears fruit.
Naturalist’s Notebook: See the World in a Velella
Did you know that you an find an echo of the spin of the planet in the sails of the by-the-wind sailors that wash ashore in spring and early summer?
Putting on Your Moth Goggles
Two moth enthusiasts chat about getting started with mothing.
