Kate Josephs and Michael Herz—the 1970s eco-warrior who founded Baykeeper—are back in the Bay, and they have some stories to tell.

Now, Staychock has turned towards a field that is firmly low-fi and unlikely to be flooded any time soon: beaver coexistence.

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 ...

Fire Forward leads a prescribed burn at Green Valley Farm + Mill in Sebastopol, California on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. Amir Aziz/Bay Nature In late May, on a crisp and partly cloudy morning, I joined ...

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