Victoria Schlesinger is the editor in chief of Bay Nature.

I think it got something!” Avroh Shah says. Out at the Baylands Nature Preserve, the sweep of sky over these shimmering ...

Avroh Shah, Young Leader Mirella Ramos, Environmental Educator Susan Schwartz, Community Hero Annie Burke, Conservation ...

Dick, pioneering research from Monterey Canyon and beyond is transforming how we understand the life of an enigmatic ocean ...

With black hood and dagger beak, western and Clark’s grebes—close relatives that sometimes hybridize—strike rakish figures on Bay Area waters, where many breed in the spring and summer. But for all ...

« Healing the Mountain, Healing the Self Surviving the Wild” theme announced for Jack London State Historic Park’s 10th Annual Young Writers Contest » « Healing the Mountain, Healing the Self ...

Before it was a city, much of San Francisco was a dunescape. Nearly a third of it was covered in sand. Western winds swept the sand into heaps and piles—one 80-foot dune rested in the future Union ...

As the founder of Cafe Ohlone in Berkeley, the only Ohlone restaurant in the world, I have long worked to see the complex layers of my East Bay Ohlone culture better represented for the benefit of my ...

It’s barely dawn in Pacifica, and the pack scouts through thick coastal fog. Eyes aren’t much help here—a speeding cyclist is barely dodged—but the leader’s nose keeps the group on track. His snout ...

“Este es un ratón recolector de marismas saladas,” Mirella Ramos tells a group of elementary- and middle-school students at the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. And then Ramos repeats it in ...

Sunday mornings often find Annie Burke on a paddleboard with her friends in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, doing battle with a barnacle-encrusted shopping cart or two. There are dozens lodged in ...