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.

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 ...

There comes a moment in many a naturalist’s life when they discover nudibranchs, and lose their mind. For Ken-ichi Ueda, it happened in 2003. New to the Bay Area, he became fixated on the gemlike sea ...

California Forever has announced plans for a 7,500 acre shipyard along 6.5 miles of undeveloped riverbank in the Montezuma Hills. It would be the largest greenfield shipyard in recent memory in the ...

This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring stories from the frontlines of climate resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Illegal deforestation.

This story was originally published in the Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper serving western Marin County since 1948. The 150 miles of trails at the Point Reyes National Seashore nearly all began ...

Jedda Foreman, associate director at the Lawrence Hall of Science, and Vincent Medina, co-leader of the ‘ottoy Initiative at UC Berkeley, look up on May 13 during install of a new exhibit designed in ...

Parenting is no joke for our local western snowy plovers. First there’s finding real estate on the San Francisco Bay—somewhere salty, flat, and undisturbed in which to dig a slight scrape for a clutch ...

Wildlife are drawn to the blooms and berries in Susan and Bill Teefy's native garden in Castro Valley. Elijah Nouvelage / EBMUD When Kathy Kramer first moved to the East Bay from Los Angeles, she ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

An overhead view of the Sargent Ranch property, also called Juristac by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. (Teddy Miller, courtesy of POST) In January, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) purchased a ...