Kate Josephs and Michael Herz—the 1970s eco-warrior who founded Baykeeper—are back in the Bay, and they have some stories to tell.

In late May, on a crisp and partly cloudy morning, I joined my first prescribed burn, led by Fire Forward, to learn about ...

There comes a moment in many a naturalist’s life when they discover nudibranchs, and lose their mind. For Ken-ichi Ueda, it happened in 2003. New to the Bay Area, he became fixated on the gemlike sea ...

To start moth-lighting, tack up a white sheet or cloth outside. It could be on a wall or fence, tree or clothesline. I’ve used three types of UV (black) lights: (1) a ruler-size LED light bar that ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most fertile mushroom habitats in North America, with hundreds of species fruiting from the first fall rains through early spring. Bay Nature has been covering ...

This story was originally published in the Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper serving western Marin County since 1948. The 150 miles of trails at the Point Reyes National Seashore nearly all began ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

A gray whale surfaces in the waters off San Francisco. Michael Pierson YERBA BUENA ISLAND—Summer fog covers the Bay, so we can’t even spot Angel Island, let alone a gray whale. But Gary Reed, director ...

Examining the human-engineered oyster substrate at Giant Marsh during a low tide in May 2025. (Sonya Bennett Brandt) This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring ...

Muir immersed himself in nature, he said, to “get as near the heart of the world as I can.” Now we can do the same, on lands he traversed. (Stephanie Penn) (Stephanie Penn) From his home in Martinez, ...

State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...