The first attempts to restore Mendocino’s streams for coho and other salmon began in the 1960s. Decades of logging in the ...

Editor’s note On a Saturday evening in late October, my boyfriend and I were walking around César Chávez Park in Berkeley ...

One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten ...

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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A perfect camping spot cleanses the soul—provided the soul can survive the despair-inducing project of actually booking the campsite. Two-thirds of campers in West Coast states now struggle to book ...

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 ...