In November, California voters decisively defeated Proposition 23, a measure that would have suspended our landmark law to curb greenhouse gas emissions. That was a genuine victory for the environment,...
Grebes are always fun to watch. Jack Laws helps you tell one from another.
Western fence lizards are a common sight in Bay Area parks on sunny days. "When you see them," says naturalist Michael Ellis, "you should feel good, because if there's fence...
Rattlesnakes are the only snakes in the world that have a mechanism for warning you that they are nearby. Return the favor by leaving snakes alone when you see them...
Birders call them TVs, and they are fun to watch, as they teeter along hillsides, cliff faces, even right in the city.
For John Kelly, who's worked for Audubon Canyon Ranch since 1988, develops and oversees conservation research, egrets and other wetland birds hold the key to monitoring and understanding how our...
Every once in a while, a small and unremarkable animal makes a huge impact on a landscape. So it is with the salt marsh harvest mouse around the edges of...
Reptile expert Robert Stebbins calls the San Francisco garter snake "one of the most beautiful serpents in North America." The snake's dazzling patterns of color serve as camouflage in its...
Though California brown pelicans are the smallest of all pelicans, they are still very impressive birds, with wingspans occasionally as big as eight feet. Nearly driven to extinction by DDT,...
Along the coast of Northern California, nearly every stream and creek once had its own migratory population of coho salmon. Their return each winter, once as reliable as the next...
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