How five proposed Trump Administration changes threaten protections for struggling species in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Leatherwood blooms as early as November, but typically January to March. Flowers usually appear before the leaves, making the ...

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A creek for all: Children play at Sausal Creek in October 2025. This was a local dump, years ago. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature When Bay Nature was born 25 years ago, the greater Bay Area stood at a tipping ...

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 ...

An ambitious person could hike from Monte Rio all the way to the ocean. Justin Whittaker / The Coldwater Collective, courtesy of Save the Redwoods League Through a densely forested slope on the west ...

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 ...

A northern saw-whet in hand. These owls are extremely secretive and rarely seen in the wild. Tanvi Dutta Gupta / Bay Nature Say what you will about the fall time change, but it does make catching ...

In 2013, biologists began to notice that sea stars—more than 20 species of them, eventually—along North America’s Pacific coast were suffering from an illness that caused them to disintegrate.

A beam of white light cuts the winter’s heavy air, dividing the coast live oak forest into the comprehensible and the unknown. I click off my torch and let the darkness envelop me, prompting my senses ...

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