Join Bay Nature Magazine and researcher Dr. Jenn Smith for a look at California ground squirrels and the surprises uncovered through long-term monitoring of their populations in the Bay Area (hint: it ...

Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers ...

Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.

Just a century ago, foraging for wild foods would have been unremarkable--part of daily life for many people. That's not true today, but foraging is making a comeback, with ever more people interested ...

A crow funeral can happen at any time. Farmers bear witness after shooting unwanted crows in their fields. Powerline workers see them should an unlucky bird zap itself and drop. Occasionally, the ...

Inspired by the science of beaver wetlands, activists tackle a long-held belief that beavers aren't native to much of California.

Fire The Burning Question in the East Bay Hills: Eucalyptus Is Flammable Compared to What? Twenty-five years after the Oakland Hills fire, people still disagree about whether blue gum eucalyptus is a ...

Photo by Scott Doniger Stewardship After Decades Away, River Otters Make a Triumphant Return to the Bay Area Scientists and volunteers track a remarkable return, and study how to keep it going ...

Spiders create ideal traps with their webs. This is a guide to some of the most common types of spider webs.

The Amah Mutsun, a Native American tribe in the San Francisco Bay Area, work to restore landscape ecology with traditional ecological knowledge.

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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) Biodiversity What Lies Beneath Can we keep ...