Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State ...
The Trump administration is now tearing up the EPA's endangerment finding as it tries to roll back climate regulations on everything from vehicles to industries.
The USFWS proposed monarch butterflies for a federal listing in 2024. The butterflies weather the winter months at Bay Area refuges like Natural Bridges State Beach, pictured. Brian Baer / California ...
Orange pore fungus (Favolaschia claudopus) Alan Rockefeller via iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0 On my very first guided mushroom hike at Joaquin Miller Park, 30 long years ago, I was gobsmacked at the idea ...
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 ...
Since 2000, Julian Wood has perfected the art of not falling into the hidden channels that weave through the Bay’s tidal marshes. Come early spring tides, the San Francisco Bay program leader at the ...
On the 10 Mile River in Mendocino County, where The Nature Conservancy oversees monitoring for juvenile coho salmon. (Christie Hemm Klok) Photographs by Christie Hemm Klok. This story was produced by ...
A long belt of high marsh called Strip Marsh East protects troubled SR 37 from erosion and flooding. If the highway is raised, restored marsh can also protect its fellow marshes to the north. It’s ...
Later this year, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical ...
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 ...
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 ...
The eponymous trees of Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, giving Rivendell vibes in the fog. Redwoods emit terpenes, chemicals that account for the trees' scent and also help seed fog. (Kate Golden) ...