So fun! It was a treat to poke around the fire trails for all things tiny and eight-legged. We saw turret spiders’ holes, crab spiders, and many others. And finally, at the very end of the hike we saw ...
An Alameda whipsnake, doing its thing: climbing. Scientists have suggested that using traps hung in trees might improve their efforts to find this elusive and semi-arboreal snake. (Angel ...
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 ...
Monarchs roost on a eucalyptus tree at Moran Lake in Santa Cruz. (Stuart Weiss, Ph.D.) Audrey Fusco can’t help getting excited at the sight of one monarch butterfly these days. In the spring sun in ...
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 day after Donald Trump’s re-election, Ann Willis, the California regional director for American Rivers, sent an email to her staff. “We all have to remember that we have all made a commitment to ...
California Sea Otter (Bureau of Land Management via Flickr, CC By 2.0) A San Francisco crabber for 15 years, Nick Krieger arrived at the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito a bit late after a ...
Rippling among blades of kelp or striking suddenly from sandy burrows, ribbon worms lurk through intertidal waters in search of their next target. These very thin, stretchy, and sometimes flamboyantly ...
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