Listen this fall for their scratchy calls and in spring for the male’s various songs. To read this Bay Nature magazine story ... Access to the current issue of Bay Nature magazine is a benefit of Bay ...

This is the 100th issue—Vol. 25 No. 4—of Bay Nature magazine, and as frequent readers know, our 25th year of publishing. We’ve been reflecting on that milestone throughout the year—first with a look ...

I often imagine what it was like to immigrate to California. The state probably felt big, dry, and daunting. My grandma said she wasn’t ready to leave her life in Hong Kong in the late 1970s when her ...

There’s an image by Dorothea Lange I think of often. It’s a bright day in March 1935, and a young woman is perched far out on a plank above a makeshift pond of irrigation runoff, balancing as she dips ...

The placid ocean smudges into the horizon. Light filters through clouds and softens the yellow grass on the hills like a painting. As the morning mist retreats to higher ground, more of the landscape ...

To protect the Plumas National Forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn it—intentionally. Can $274 million do the job?

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Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical territory for the first time in more than two ...

The inclinations that have, repeatedly, caused spiders to evolve the ability to balloon also make spiders difficult livestock. Spiders balloon, in part, to get away from other spiders—in close ...