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

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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 ...

Less than 300 years ago, San Francisco was a land of hills and sand dunes, where Ramaytush-speaking Ohlone lived in seasonal communities along creeks and the Bay. They lived lightly on the land in ...

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 ...

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

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

The inclinations that have, repeatedly, caused spiders to evolve the ability to balloon also make spiders difficult livestock ...