Now open to all: 1,500 acres of oak woodlands in Solano County, at Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park.

With the arrival of January, Bay Nature begins its 25th year of publication. Can you believe it? Twenty-five years. That is a ...

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.

As Karen Swaim drove through the night in the North Livermore Valley, the California tiger salamander emerged from the dark shining under her headlights: stubby-legged and gleaming obsidian, with ...

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Here, I present results from our highly unscientific poll of our ten staff members on the Bay Nature stories, talks, hikes, and fun facts from 2024 that most delighted us, changed our views of the ...

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 ...

TO GET TO THE EXCEEDINGLY rare plant called California sea-blite you go down to the east shore of San Francisco on an unmarked industrial road, past warehouses and jumbled rail lines. Cement plant ...

Former National Park Service wildlife biologist Matt Lau highlights the Point Reyes snowy plover population. Learn about their ecology and natural history, as well as conservation efforts, the ongoing ...

The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...

ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON IN 1962, a 14-year-old boy named Jim Carlton scrambled down through thick brush onto the exposed muddy shoreline of Adams Point on Lake Merritt. The small beach was quiet ...

Once, not so long ago, there lived a fish in the Galapagos Islands. Its name was Azurina eupalama, the Galapagos damsel; it was not particularly different from any other small rocky reef fish.