First Cotoni-Coast Dairies Trails Opening At Last
Explore sweeping coastal prairies, redwood forests, and oak woodlands at a new national monument near Santa Cruz
Science and Nature
Finding Bugula
A colony of hundreds of small animals, whose symbiotic bacteria pumps out human medicine.
Dorothea Lange, Water Prophet
Dorothea Lange's water photography asks: How do we create systems that let us live justly with one another and the earth?
Swimming in the Bay: Salty Autumn
Autumn in San Francisco Bay is a halcyon moment between the punishing winds of summer and the frigid swells of winter.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Electrostatic Flight
How spiders take flight, without any wind to help.
Editor’s Letter: Notes From Bay Nature’s Long-Haulers
Notes from the special subspecies of readers who have been with us all 25 years of publishing—all 100 issues.
Unburned: An Investigation
To protect the Plumas National Forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn it—intentionally. Can $274 million do the job?
How Spiders Fly
Darwin saw them ballooning. Without any wind. Eventually some scientists figured out their electric secret.
Yellowjackets—Bane of the Picnic, Builder of Hidden Kingdoms
These bold insects live in complex underground matriarchies that are seriously metal.
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