The San Francisco Bay is our region’s dominant geographic feature.
The pulses in this silver fish wave, reaching up to a mile long by a mile wide, represent perhaps the largest aggregations of animals you’ll ever find in Northern California.
Naturalist John Muir Laws illustrates the great herring migration in the San Francisco Bay
Drought brings ideal conditions for rapid spread of water hyacinth in the Delta.
If the Chinese shrimping villages were still around today, could the California bay shrimp support a thriving industry as it once did?
The early fall king salmon spawning run on the Sacramento River is taking place between Red Bluff and Redding, but prolonged drought has led to reduced flows from Lake Shasta...
A new effort has been launched to restore 70 acres of native eelgrass in the San Francisco Bay, paid for with Cosco Busan oil spill money.
The resident sharks of the San Francisco Bay rely on healthy tidal wetlands.
Looking out across the 650-acre project toward the distant Godzilla arm of the backhoe against the blue sky, I finally see on the ground what the planners and engineers have...
The West Coast’s native Olympia oyster serves an important role as an ecosystem builder with its ability to filter the water. But owing to reasons that are still somewhat unclear,...
Last week a backhoe knocked a hole in the outer levee at the former Hamilton Army Airfield, letting the Bay seep back onto a landscape that had undergone 18 years...
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