Each palm-size owl caught is a rush, not only because it is an encounter in the dark with pure wildness. Saw-whets are one of ...

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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 ...

An ambitious person could hike from Monte Rio all the way to the ocean. Justin Whittaker / The Coldwater Collective, courtesy of Save the Redwoods League Through a densely forested slope on the west ...

In 2013, biologists began to notice that sea stars—more than 20 species of them, eventually—along North America’s Pacific coast were suffering from an illness that caused them to disintegrate.

Arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris). Jeremiah Degenhardt via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC 4.0 One day, while poking around beneath a pot in my family’s backyard, I discovered a glistening arboreal ...

Every winter, tens of thousands of newts cross Chileno Valley Road to breed in Laguna Lake, west of Petaluma—a perilous journey that leaves up to 40 percent of them roadkill. But since 2019, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pistachio orchards, like these at Gilkey Ranch near Five Points, California, are producing the nut of the future, say farmers, because the crop goes dormant during drought and demands less water and ...

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, ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...