Stepping onto the spanking new Pacheco Marsh trail near Martinez for the first time on May 1, I was struck by the contrast ...

Looking for some great summer reads? We’ve pulled together a few of our favorites, from a deep dive into the flamboyant mating rituals of grebes to a guidebook on drawing birds. Looking for fun in the ...

When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious ...

GrizzlyCorps fellow Emily Dewing and ecologists David Lumpkin and Scott Jennings prepare to tag dunlin at Tomales Bay. Dewing lost her fellowship to DOGE’s AmeriCorps cuts.(Nils Warnock) Over the past ...

One year ago, a team of earnest conservationists released a few dozen silvery blue butterflies at the Presidio, hoping they would settle down and fill the ecological niche once held there by the ...

Two weeks into President Donald Trump’s presidency, the situation is murky for doing federal-grant-funded conservation work, from fish passage projects to wildfire resilience. (Salmon by Michael Wier, ...

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 ...

Ukiah Fire Chief Doug Hutchison knew what kind of hassle the city was getting into by acquiring some 763 acres of overgrown, fire-starved forest on the city’s western edge—but it seemed worth it.

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind.

If you drive up Highway One some 15 curvy miles north of the Golden Gate, through the coastal village of Stinson Beach, the view to the west opens up dramatically onto a wide-open expanse of shallow ...