The first attempts to restore Mendocino’s streams for coho and other salmon began in the 1960s. Decades of logging in the ...

One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten ...

Editor’s note On a Saturday evening in late October, my boyfriend and I were walking around César Chávez Park in Berkeley ...

Martin Nicolaus (aka “the Owl Guy”) has covered Berkeley’s César Chávez Park since 2004. He has taken more than 3,000 photos of the owls, published more than 350 posts about them on ChavezPark.org, ...

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On July 27, 2017 this story was announced as a finalist for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine 2017 Communication Awards. Every year, as summer turns to fall, the mouse ...

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 medicine smell of the trees, ...

To deliberately attract a tick, you need to emulate a large animal—which shouldn’t be that hard because humans are essentially big, lumbering apes. You increase your chances of attracting the ...

In late October 1769, a group of bedraggled Spanish soldiers arrived overland in the territory of the Quiroste Indians on the San Mateo coast. Motivated by news of the encroaching Russian fur trade, ...

Ted and Moorea Stout’s forest burned in the 2021 Dixie Fire. (Photo by Max Whittaker) Ted and Moorea Stout follow an old logging road that passes their house, walking through charred groves of century ...