Sharing Secrets of the Oak Woodlands
Over a decade of close observation and research led to Kate Marianchild's first book Secrets of the Oak Woodlands.
Wildlife
Love a Shark? Save a Wetland
The resident sharks of the San Francisco Bay rely on healthy tidal wetlands.
American Kestrel Population Drops Dramatically, And Without Fanfare
At the national level, the American kestrel population has been plummeting. Researchers in Santa Cruz are trying to learn more about the surprisingly mysterious birds.
Ask The Naturalist: Can Deer Twins Be Born on Different Days?
This week's guest naturalist David Lukas has the answer to a reader's intriguing cervid question.
Tracking the Ghost Cat: Mountain Lions Remain Elusive in the East Bay
The Bay Area Puma Project team has been collaring mountain lions and monitoring remote motion-sensor cameras throughout the East Bay. It’s not easy tracking the elusive cats, but it’s vital to understanding how to protect them.
Marsh Once More: The Bay Trail Takes Off at Hamilton Airfield
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 been describing to me ever since I first began writing stories about Hamilton ten years ago: a tapestry of habitats.
In Summer and Fall, the Pacific Ocean Shines at Night with a Living Light Show
Another phenomenon, equally fabulous but much lower in the food chain, can also occur in the ocean at this time of year: bioluminescence, or “living light.”
It’s Fun! It’s Science! It’s a Bioblitz!
On the last weekend of March, 9,000 people armed with binoculars, butterfly nets, cameras, and smartphones, spread out over an archipelago of national park lands from Point Reyes in Marin County to Mori Point on the San Mateo coast. Their … Read more
The Clapper Rail Calls at Dawn
A Bay Nature special feature about weird birds, hardy biologists, and the difficult methods we employ to move past what our eyes and ears tell us and see something like the truth.
Naturalist’s Notebook: The Ghost in the Lupine
Ghost moth caterpillars attack yellow bush lupine. But the plant has an ally to fight back.
