Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
What did natural California look like before the arrival of Europeans? Laura Cunningham paints it.
New research shows that some areas of the wildland-urban interface – the land where development ends and wilderness begins – are at much higher risk of burning than others.
Ever since the 1930s, when an improbable remnant colony of sea otters was discovered off the rugged Big Sur coast after more than a century of intensive fur hunting, Californians have worked to bring the animals back from the edge of extinction. Their numbers have grown from around 50 individuals to a little under 3,000,…
Bay Nature Digital Editor Eric Simons has won a 2021 Excellence in Journalism award for his story “Land Back” on the challenges of Indigenous land repatriation in the Bay Area.
Tens of thousands of newts try to cross Chileno Valley Road every year in the breeding season. Volunteers try to help them make it alive.
The chytrid fungal pathogen Bd causes a dangerous skin infection and spreads easily.
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