Bay Nature connects the people of the Bay Area to the natural world around them. Find out more about our mission, programs, ...

Bay Nature connects the people of the Bay Area to the natural world around them. Find out more about our mission, programs, ...

Whitney Grover is a life-long coastal Californian, enthusiastic birder, and lover of the Bay Area’s unique ecology. In 2023 she earned a Master of Science degree in Environmental Management from the ...

Bay Area sport fish sampled in a study were tainted with PFAS. But it’s not so easy to persuade anglers to eat less fish.

Illustration by Maggie Chiang The gums are mottled tan and brown like chicken bones, crowded together, the spaces between them choked with brush and hung with streamers of bark. Along with the sweet ...

Susan Kuramoto Moffat has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Estuary News ...

We’re peering down into a ravine carved out by Lagunitas Creek, looking for North American river otters. According to official California Department of Fish and Wildlife records, last updated in 1995, ...

Male elephant seals are among the loudest mammals ever recorded, and they can weigh more than two tons. (Photo by Steve Zamek, Feather Light Photography) On a sparkling blue January morning, I meet ...

Acorn woodpeckers consume acorns from a variety of oaks. (Photo by Elaine Miller Bond) Fall 1983 brought hard times to acorn woodpeckers in upper Carmel Valley. For the first year since I’d begun ...

How coastal scrub gave way to grasslands With its cool, clean winds, dense fog and ever-changing skies, Point Reyes was once a place of dense, impenetrable stands of coastal scrub and forested ridges, ...