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Tag: Point Reyes
Bay Nature
Bay Nature Wins Local Journalism Awards for Four Environment and Science Stories
Bay Nature cleaned up nicely in the science and environment categories at SPJ NorCal. Here’s a little backstory on our winners.
Fall Issue 2025
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.
Exploration
Bay Nature’s 2025 Summer Guide!
For this summer, we’ve pulled together a few of our favorites—reads, guides, coastal trails and summer volunteering opportunities.
Conservation
Point Reyes, After the Cattle
When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious plans for restoration—but there are big challenges to manifesting the vision. Not least, how it will be paid for.
Wild Billions
Trump Is Destroying Historic Environmental Regulation—And Marin Audubon’s Name Got (Arbitrarily) Caught Up In It
A federal judge turned a routine lawsuit to protect birds at Point Reyes into his platform for attacking the National Environmental Policy Act’s foundational guidelines.
Spring Issue 2022
Look Close for The Blue-Eyed Coyotes of Point Reyes
Sightings of coyotes with steely irises are sporadic and rare, so no one is sure how many individuals there are in the park or if their population is increasing or decreasing.
Policy
Does Protecting Land Work to Protect Wildlife?
Most conservation plans assume that protecting land works to help biodiversity. Point Blue scientists decided to check and see.
Art and Design
“A Picture of the World You Want to Inhabit”: Artist Tom Killion’s California Nature
When thick brown clouds of smoke settled into the sky above Point Reyes National Seashore in fall 2020, the artist Tom Killion began packing his car with framed prints he’d made over the past four decades, along with thousands of … Read more
