Finding Bugula
A colony of hundreds of small animals, whose symbiotic bacteria pumps out human medicine.
Post Type Archives: Articles
The Primacy of Movement
To block a border, a route, a place to sleep, is an attempt to assert a hierarchy of beings.
An Ocean-to-Bay Hike: San Francisco’s Double Cross Trail
The companion to the Crosstown inspires with hidden nature and jaw-dropping views.
Swimming in the Bay: Salty Autumn
Autumn in San Francisco Bay is a halcyon moment between the punishing winds of summer and the frigid swells of winter.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Electrostatic Flight
How spiders take flight, without any wind to help.
Fall 2025 Almanac: Blond Tarantulas and Beavers
Life during fall brings with it a little bit of whimsy, the cerulean sky, and a shimmer of promise.
Editor’s Letter: Notes From Bay Nature’s Long-Haulers
Notes from the special subspecies of readers who have been with us all 25 years of publishing—all 100 issues.
Dorothea Lange, Water Prophet
Dorothea Lange's water photography asks: How do we create systems that let us live justly with one another and the earth?
Walking in John Muir’s Footsteps at Alhambra Hills Open Space
Once slated for homes, now open to hikers
In These Gardens, New Home Lands Grow
On the blended ecologies that first-generation immigrants tend.
