Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
If the Chinese shrimping villages were still around today, could the California bay shrimp support a thriving industry as it once did?
For the past decade, the Applied California Current Ecosystem Studies expedition has monitored the ocean waters just west of the Bay Area. Recently, researchers took the boat in search of krill, the base of California’s marine life.
The surprise appearance of a wild turkey in another bird’s nest has one reader wondering.
Three Bay Area counties —Santa Clara, Sonoma and Santa Cruz — have found a way to put these values of nature onto a balance sheet.
The editor of BOOM, a new quarterly journal about California, speaks with Bay Nature about his latest project.
The early fall king salmon spawning run on the Sacramento River is taking place between Red Bluff and Redding, but prolonged drought has led to reduced flows from Lake Shasta and high water temperatures downriver, which could deal many egg nests a death blow.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
