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Bay Nature connects the people of the Bay Area to the natural world around them. Find out more about our mission, programs, ...

Bay Area sport fish sampled in a study were tainted with PFAS. But it’s not so easy to persuade anglers to eat less fish.

Susan Kuramoto Moffat has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Estuary News ...

Painting by Owen Smith Tens of thousands of years ago, California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains wore upon their shoulders the ancestors of today’s rivers. The waterways flowed down from the highlands to ...

Illustration by Jason Holley 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 ...

A watershed’s moment At its northernmost reaches, in the mountains above Ukiah, the Russian River begins. Here, it touches fingers with the headwaters of the Eel River, which disappears to the north, ...

KEEPERS OF THE LANGUAGE AND LIFE WAYS When California became a state in 1850, the persecution of Native Californians intensified, in some places to the point of genocide, and many tribal people ...

Illustration by Tim Bower 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 ...

Once established in your garden, the ants will build a shallow nest, something simple using the cavities in rotting wood or leaf litter, about 15 inches deep, and begin to expand their territory. In ...

In any event, it’s easier to appreciate the main work of most spiders — namely their web building — when you’re an order of magnitude larger than insect-sized. To see webs for what they are, chiefly ...

This article has been conserved for you by Sonoma Land Trust. Learn more about our Online Article Conservation Program here. Last winter’s parade of atmospheric river storms raised water levels in the ...