East Bay Regional Park District is primed to remove the creosote-treated wood of Richmond’s Ferry Point Pier this year after two years of delays.
Water
Eulogy for a Crayfish We Hardly Knew
January 18, 2024 •
The death knell for the sooty crayfish probably sounded with the introduction of its cousin from the north.
A Last Best Hope for Coho in the Russian River
January 9, 2024 •
Now equipped with $8.4 million in federal money, conservationists are aiming to bring back the watershed’s salmonids
The Mystery of the Los Gatos Beavers
January 3, 2024 •
Years before beavers famously returned to Martinez, Los Gatos locals were spotting them in their creeks and ponds. How they got there, though—that’s a bit of a rabbit hole.
Believing in the Power of Beavers
January 2, 2024 •
California’s beavers have been by turns hunted, protected, and neglected—even parachuted away to distant forests. Today, the embattled rodent is finding new appreciation for its ecological work.
A River Runs Above Us
December 19, 2023 •
In mid-November 2021, a great storm begins brewing in the central Pacific Ocean north of Hawai‘i. Especially warm water, heated by the sun, steams off the sea surface and funnels into the sky. This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online … Read more
The Storied Bolinas Marine Laboratory Is Reborn
November 9, 2023 •
Nearly two decades after it was shuttered, advocates and researchers are hoping to reopen the field station where community college students were once involved in the marine sciences.
Map: Where Oodles of Federal Dollars for Nature Are Going
September 15, 2023 •
BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area has topped $1 billion, according to Bay Nature’s most recent tally for our Wild Billions project.
Why Thousands of Octopuses Are Snuggled Up Against a Deep-Sea Heater
August 23, 2023 •
Off the California coast, these creatures are getting an evolutionary edge.
Naturalist’s Notebook: How Pelicans and Humpbacks Stretch For Their Food
August 3, 2023 •
Pelicans don’t, as you may have heard, stick their spines out of their mouths. They do, however, do some pretty crazy yawn-stretching. From John Muir Laws.