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Listen this fall for their scratchy calls and in spring for the male’s various songs. To read this Bay Nature magazine story ...

To protect the Plumas National Forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn ...

Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land ...

A money spider (Tenuiphantes sp.) balloons, under controlled conditions, from its daisy perch. You can see the trichobothria (leg hairs) and dragline silk in this picture. (Michael Hutchinson via ...

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A less-frequently spotted Vespula in our area: the forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica). (Tony Iwane via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) Ask almost anyone about yellowjackets; they will have a harrowing tale ...

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In the early 1950s, a Swedish dairy farmer and real estate magnate named Axel Adler came to California and fell in love with Big Sur. The rugged backcountry, the spring flowers, the redwoods tall over ...