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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You don’t need bait to catch an Alameda whipsnake—just luck, and a low, fifty-foot-long fiberboard fence staked into the ground. If a snake encounters this fence, it will naturally respond by running ...

I recently fell in love with the worst commute I’ve ever had. I also still hate it, of course, but while rolling at a glacial pace toward the State Route 37 onramp at Mare Island, heading from my home ...