Bay Nature connects the people of the Bay Area to the natural world around them. Find out more about our mission, programs, ...

Bay Nature connects the people of the Bay Area to the natural world around them. Find out more about our mission, programs, ...

Susan Kuramoto Moffat has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Estuary News ...

This summer, our special Explore issue of the magazine is a trove of ideas and information for recharging your biophilia.

Welcome to Bay Nature’s mini-guide to 25 Bay Area trails in some of our favorite places, ranging from peaks and valleys to redwoods and tidal marshes, described in 25 stories from Bay Nature‘s ...

For nature lovers seeking a challenge, finding a rare snake is deeply rewarding. "Snake hunting is the new birdwatching," ...

Bay Area sport fish sampled in a study were tainted with PFAS. But it’s not so easy to persuade anglers to eat less fish.

Over the past century, lots of Bay Area natural spaces have been acquired and protected from development. Now we need to care for these spaces, and it isn’t excessively glamorous work: say, clearing ...

Illustration by Maggie Chiang The gums are mottled tan and brown like chicken bones, crowded together, the spaces between them choked with brush and hung with streamers of bark. Along with the sweet ...

Dan Vink, an irrigation consultant in Tulare County, has helped coordinate the restoration of 500 acres of farmland to wildlife habitat at Capinero Creek since the project’s inception.Dan Vink, a ...

Tule elk bulls in velvet rest in a field with cattle, surrounded by barbed wire fencing above Drakes Beach. (Photo by Sarah Killingsworth) Nature News Home on the Range Once thought to be extinct, ...

Lupines bloom on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur, which Western Rivers Conservancy acquired and gave to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County nonprofit in 2020. (Photo by Doug Steakley, courtesy Western ...