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Stepping onto the spanking new Pacheco Marsh trail near Martinez for the first time on May 1, I was struck by the contrast ...
When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious ...
GrizzlyCorps fellow Emily Dewing and ecologists David Lumpkin and Scott Jennings prepare to tag dunlin at Tomales Bay. Dewing lost her fellowship to DOGE’s AmeriCorps cuts.(Nils Warnock) Over the past ...
A San Francisco crabber for 15 years, Nick Krieger arrived at the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausalito a bit late after a morning of teaching surf lessons. He noticed that attendance was sparse, and ...
On a gray early March morning in Sonoma County, everything is dripping. Somewhere, out of sight, in hollow trees and rocky caves, tiny American black bear cubs nurse in the dark. Born at less than a ...
Twice a week, from the train that runs between Sacramento and Berkeley, I see the force of the Carquinez Strait’s water flowing and eddying under the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, and it is the best part ...
Durrell Kapan keeps checking his Yeti cooler of 13 butterflies. He caught them yesterday at Garrapata State Park, and checked into a seaside motel for the night, where he fed them a nectar-like ...
It was late August, and a briny breeze tugged at my hair and notebook. I stepped out onto an expanse of pickleweed at San Pablo Bay’s American Canyon. This was the salt marsh, the buffer between land ...
Before the bridges, there were ferries. In the mid-1930s, before the Golden Gate and Bay bridges were completed, over 50 million people crossed the Bay by ferry annually. And yet, to promote use of ...
When Heidi Petty began cleaning up Rodeo Creek nearly two decades ago, she pulled seventeen shopping carts out of the waterway, which runs from western Contra Costa County into San Pablo Bay. Since ...