During the Bay Area’s damp winters, we can’t afford to be fair-weather hikers. Fortunately, some hikes in the Bay Area are ...

In 1941, two UC Berkeley graduate students recorded 31 species living in a mussel bed on Dillon Beach. In 2019, PhD candidate ...

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

« Surviving the Wild” theme announced for Jack London State Historic Park’s 10th Annual Young Writers Contest Volunteer at The Secret Garden » Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay ...

In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver Brandon Berry is slurping up clouds of algae with an underwater vacuum cleaner. Snorkeling above, I can hear his Darth Vader breaths better than I can see ...

At midday, the surface of the Cosumnes River mirrors a bluebird sky. The oak forest hoods the water on either side. Though it’s quiet, life is in motion: a belted kingfisher flashes past in search of ...

« GUIDED NATURE WALK Surviving the Wild” theme announced for Jack London State Historic Park’s 10th Annual Young Writers Contest » « GUIDED NATURE WALK Surviving the Wild” theme announced for Jack ...

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 ...

Crab season aboard Khevin Mellegers’ boat, the Areona. This spring was his second time trying out experimental “pop-up” crab pots. (Courtesy of Khevin Mellegers) The first time Half Moon Bay crabber ...

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 ...