ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON IN 1962, a 14-year-old boy named Jim Carlton scrambled down through thick brush onto the exposed muddy shoreline of Adams Point on Lake Merritt. The small beach was quiet ...

Parenting is no joke for our local western snowy plovers. First there’s finding real estate on the San Francisco Bay—somewhere salty, flat, and undisturbed in which to dig a slight scrape for a clutch ...

TO GET TO THE EXCEEDINGLY rare plant called California sea-blite you go down to the east shore of San Francisco on an unmarked industrial road, past warehouses and jumbled rail lines. Cement plant ...

State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

Kate Josephs and Michael Herz—the 1970s eco-warrior who founded Baykeeper—are back in the Bay, and they have some stories to tell.

In late May, on a crisp and partly cloudy morning, I joined my first prescribed burn, led by Fire Forward, to learn about ...

For 25 years, Bay Nature has connected people to the natural world of the San Francisco Bay Area—inspiring curiosity, stewardship, and action. Now it’s time to celebrate what this community has built ...

The oldest canyon live oaks growing on Russian Ridge likely date back as far as the arrival of the Spaniards in the Bay Area in the late 1700s. (Photo by Karl Grohl) Follow the spine of the Peninsula ...

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 meander across the ...

At Bay Nature, we believe that a deep connection with nature flourishes when we are also connected with each other. Rooted in the unique ecological and cultural landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area ...

Bay Nature’s events connect people with the nature of the San Francisco Bay Area through expert-led talks and hikes that bring our magazine stories to life. These programs offer meaningful, immersive ...