My Mediterranean Arachnid Houseguest: Getting to Know Zoropsis Spinimana
Zoropsis spinimana is a harmless -- but quite large! -- house spider that's recently moved to the Bay Area.
Category: Essays
Original essays about conservation, science, and natural history in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Celebrated Joaquín Murieta
It’s a true crime story set in the early days of California statehood, with themes of racism, colonialism, and the legitimacy of state violence. Do more people need to know...
“A Picture of the World You Want to Inhabit”: Artist Tom Killion’s California Nature
When thick brown clouds of smoke settled into the sky above Point Reyes National Seashore in fall 2020, the artist Tom Killion began packing his car with framed prints he’d...
Redwood Memory
Old redwood trees have seen fire many times in their lives. It’s because of their fire scars—not in spite of them—that the redwood forest thrives.
The Refuge On the Wild Side of Silicon Valley
You could spend a lifetime getting to know the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
The Legacy of Gordon Chan
A story about the life and legacy of celebrated scientist, conservationist and mentor Gordon Chan.
Circumambulating in COVID-Times: Joy and Solace on Mt. Tam During the Pandemic
A writer follows Gary Snyder's ritualized walking meditation of Mt. Tamalpais in search of pandemic relief.
The Generosity of Trees
I find myself awakening to the wonder of time -- the deep, slow, earth-time of trees, and dirt, and rocks -- and to the aching grief of human greed and...
Volunteer Divers Hope to Restore Kelp from the Ground Up
Can volunteer scuba divers start a turnaround for Northern California kelp forests?
Imagining and Treasuring Places We Love: CZU Fire Reflections
I write from a place of love, but also a place of pain. A place of excruciating unknowing. A place of imagination – imagining the worst, imagining the best, imagining...
