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

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

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 ...

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« Tidings of Clean and Joy – Cleanup Surviving the Wild” theme announced for Jack London State Historic Park’s 10th Annual Young Writers Contest » Bay Nature relies on the support of readers, members, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An arboreal salamander rests beneath a log in Garber Park, Oakland. Brandon Keim On a humid spring night last April, I went for a walk in Garber Park, a hillside forest on the eastern edge of Berkeley ...

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 ...