I saw literally every species of fish found in the lake,” except for the Clear Lake tule perch, Santana says. The ...

On a waterlogged highway, cars drive into the sea. Truck cabs and bus windows poke up above the waves; sedans are fully ...

Listen this fall for their scratchy calls and in spring for the male’s various songs. To read this Bay Nature magazine story ...

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 ...

Audrey Fusco can’t help getting excited at the sight of one monarch butterfly these days. In the spring sun in Bolinas, one poses briefly on the spire of a tall purple flower, wings aglow in the ...

Jeff Miller stands atop the fish barrier at the base of Niles Community Park as they rescue stranded steelhead in 2016. (Courtesy of Jeff Miller) In the summer of 1997, Jeff Miller went for a long ...

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. (Lisa M. Krieger) In the gently rolling ...

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.

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 ...

The cacophonous alarm cries of western gulls rang out as a crane lifted a boat full of visitors onto the windswept Farallon Islands, a bustling avian metropolis normally off-limits to all but a few ...

A San Francisco crabber for 15 years, Nick Krieger arrived at the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito a bit late after a morning of teaching surf lessons. He noticed that attendance was sparse, and ...

One of Kimberly Stevenot’s responsibilities as a kid was to hang out by the side of the road and look for park rangers—or anyone else who looked like they might be trouble. The Tuolumne Rancheria, ...