But the smoke made trouble when it traveled. Cal Fire Angel Island might be one of the hardest places in California to hold a prescribed burn. Fire engines have to arrive on a boat, one at a time, all ...

President Trump's administration has proposed cutting the program. But Congress funds the program directly, so Congress will ...

Conservation often focuses on losses, but rewilding is an exercise in imagination—and optimism. In this issue, we follow California condors into East Bay skies, and consider the apex of ...

A gulf fritillary (Dione vanillae) could grace your garden any time of year, but according to iNaturalist data, Bay Area sightings of adults peak in October. So here’s something to watch for: During ...

Fire Land: five stories in this issue that give a snapshot of fire in our lives today. Amir Aziz/Bay Nature Victoria Schlesinger, editor in chief. Photo by Barbara Butkus On a bright morning in August ...

Bay Nature reporter Daniella Garcia-Loos Almeida spoke with climate scientist Daniel Swain about potential local impacts of El Niño and a marine heat wave that’s been sitting off the coast of Southern ...

Naturalist and illustrator John Muir Laws is the author of the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide. Learn more and find class schedules at johnmuirlaws.com.

Thirteen years ago or so, I hiked up the eastern slope of Mount Tam with a friend. We were aiming for East Peak and had parked our car in Mill Valley. I was still new enough to California and to ...

I thought I’d hiked every trail in Golden Gate Park in over two decades exploring the park. But on a sunny morning in May, I headed up a hillside on a small, steep trail I’d somehow missed. At the top ...

Condor 726, aka "Little Stinker," is among the birds that have been spotted in East Bay skies. Kate Golden / Bay Nature; condor reference image by Tim Huntington Hundreds of feet above California’s ...

“Are there any true grizzly bears now in California?” William Randolph Hearst, the young owner of the San Francisco Examiner, asked his enterprising reporter, Allen Kelly, one May day in 1889. Bay ...

A data-derived map of the Sierra National Forest tree canopy and the condition of individual trees in 2020—whether they are alive or dead—is an example of what the new LiDAR-derived data will show.