Now, Staychock has turned towards a field that is firmly low-fi and unlikely to be flooded any time soon: beaver coexistence.
Kate Josephs and Michael Herz—the 1970s eco-warrior who founded Baykeeper—are back in the Bay, and they have some stories to tell.
In late May, on a crisp and partly cloudy morning, I joined my first prescribed burn, led by Fire Forward, to learn about ...
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most fertile mushroom habitats in North America, with hundreds of species fruiting from the first fall rains through early spring. Bay Nature has been covering ...
Sage Ono peeks into a small pool on Swamp Creek, in search of rare McCloud River redband trout. Sage Ono It’s hard to imagine a more scenic place to be devoured by mosquitoes than wildflower-speckled ...
A gray whale surfaces in the waters off San Francisco. Michael Pierson YERBA BUENA ISLAND—Summer fog covers the Bay, so we can’t even spot Angel Island, let alone a gray whale. But Gary Reed, director ...
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