Don’t Blame the Bark Beetles
While walking in the woods, you’ve likely encountered a dead log engraved with maze-like squiggles. These natural carvings are known as beetle galleries, and the grooves are munched out by...
Tag: forests
Logjam: The Supply Chain Problem That’s Keeping California From Preventing Catastrophic Wildfires on Private Land
Private landowners in California hold a huge amount of forest that's primed to burn.
Listen Closely, the Trees are Talking
When people say that trees "talk" to each other, that's a concept that rests, in part, on an extraordinary and microscopic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the roots of...
Disease Outbreak Appears to be Killing Bay Area Trees
In at least one tree species, scientists say the culprit appears to be a fungal pathogen.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Listen to Forest Owls
If you go into the woods and listen, you may hear great horned owl duets, the trill of western screech owls, toots of northern saw-whet owls, or the daytime call...
Fog and Redwoods: Demystifying the Mist
Fog means survival for many Bay Area plants and animals. What will happen to this life-giving airborne moisture in an era of global warming?
Preservation Ranch: Big conservation, thanks to carbon credits
Preservation Ranch is the biggest conservation deal in Sonoma County history, and it's part of an even bigger deal. The key to the model? Carbon credits.
Recalling the Wild
Walk a few miles in Jack London's boots to see the landscape he declared more beautiful than any he'd seen in all his travels.
