Naturalist’s Notebook: Illustrated Squirrels of the Bay Area
Follow the "kuks" and "quaaas" to find marauding hawks or foxes.
Science and Nature
Meet the Bay Area’s Migrating Dragonflies
Most of the things flying over your head aren't birds. Meet some of the large insects that propel themselves around the world and stop in Northern California.
Presumed Extinct, a Wildflower Reappears on Mount Diablo
The Mount Diablo Buckwheat disappeared in the 1930s. It was thought to be extinct. A single population was rediscovered in 2005. And then last year botanists found a new population...
Two Almost Identical Lupines Live in the Same Place. One is Rare, One Not. Why?
A new journal article tries to answer an ecological mystery at Point Reyes.
Tribal Chairman Sarris on the Charms of Tolay Lake
Tolay Lake Regional Park in Sonoma. Trail: 3.1 mi, 164 ft elevation gain, loop
Are the Bay Area’s Parks Too Crowded?
Are crowded parks, like traffic or sprawl, another symptom of the Bay Area's economic boom? Not necessarily.
The Open Ocean is the Last Frontier In Birding
Living tens, hundreds, even thousands of miles offshore, pelagic seabirds are some of the least understood and most threatened avian species in the world.
BayWood Artists Celebrate 20 Years of Painting With Mount Tam Show
An artist's view of Mount Tam.
Farewell Letter from Bay Nature Publisher David Loeb
Bay Nature Publisher David Loeb reflects on changes since he co-founded the magazine in 2001.
Bay Area Scientists Push Back Against Federal Freeze on Meetings
The Department of Interior is forbidding committee meetings, but one prominent California-based partnership of NGOs and resource managers is going to keep talking to one another anyway.
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