There was a feeling in the air of curiosity, wondering what would happen on this hike and where the paths would take us. And as we walked through this park I had known my whole life, I reflected on ...

Leatherwood blooms as early as November, but typically January to March. Flowers usually appear before the leaves, making the ...

Here to stay? Mats of Eurasian watermilfoil clog waterways in the Tahoe Keys, on Lake Tahoe’s south side. It can regrow from a wisp. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver ...

Lupines bloom on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur, which Western Rivers Conservancy acquired and gave to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County nonprofit in 2020. (Photo by Doug Steakley, courtesy Western ...

Amah Mutsun Native Stewardship Corps member Abran Lopez chops down nonnative hemlock at Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve to allow for the return of native plants such as coast tarplant. (Photo by ...

Today, looking west from Brickyard, glitters San Francisco. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan / Berkeleyside) You might think the story of Brickyard Cove, the gleaming new public park at the Berkeley ...

Spiders — and their webs — hold a special place in our cultural mythology. Tattered webbing is a feature of any horror flick, an icon of the evil that is lurking about with the spiders themselves ...

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk conducts a blessing ceremony at the confluence of Cow Creek and the Sacramento River during Run4Salmon. Sisk envisions a volitional fish passage up Cow Creek, which ...

State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

A red-tailed hawk perches by a chardonnay vineyard near the Napa-Sonoma Marshes Wildlife Area. (Photo by Andrew A. Lincoln, @alincoln_photo) Laura Echávez is perched precariously atop a 16-foot ladder ...

On the southwestern end of Richmond’s Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline, around the corner from throngs of yachts, is a very large problem pier. “The Ferry Point Pier is in imminent danger of collapse,” ...

Later this year, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical ...