What we call long-term monitoring, of course, is just a blink in the Washoe Tribe’s millennia-long relationship with Lake ...

When researchers surveyed the rock nearly eight decades later, they were surprised at how much life they found still living ...

Most cattle will leave, and an ambitious plan aims to restore coastal scrub, grasslands, and chaparral. But the agreement ...

From Santa Cruz through Humboldt County, find the fetid adder’s-tongue in the moist, shady understories of redwood forests or ...

Dungeness season was delayed to keep whales safe. In a surprising turn after years of adamant resistance, more Dungeness ...

Former National Park Service wildlife biologist Matt Lau highlights the Point Reyes snowy plover population. Learn about their ecology and natural history, as well as conservation efforts, the ongoing ...

« Winged Migration Expo – Mare Island Vallejo February 15 – Early Spring Wildflowers & Plant Uses » Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates ...

It’s a cool February morning in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Coastal Range. The air smells fresh and mulchy thanks to the recent rain. As you meander down the trail, a persistent tapping sound drifts ...

The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...

ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON IN 1962, a 14-year-old boy named Jim Carlton scrambled down through thick brush onto the exposed muddy shoreline of Adams Point on Lake Merritt. The small beach was quiet ...