In Search of the East Bay Mystery Snake - Bay Nature
The Alameda whipsnake is a true local. Yet it remains a stranger to us—which makes protecting it trickier.| Bay Nature
One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten water supplies for cities and farms. Yet the state has no specific funding or plans to tackle harms in the heart of the invasion. The post Invasive Golden Mussels Upend Life in the Delta appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
Editor’s note On a Saturday evening in late October, my boyfriend and I were walking around César Chávez Park in Berkeley when we came across a man with a camera and tripod near the Burrowing Owl Sanctuary. I asked him … Read more The post Burrowing Owls Return to César Chávez Park appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
The camping shortage is brutal, and the latest federal lands chaos doesn’t help. Streamlined permitting could help more Californians go camping—and rural landowners to care for their properties. The post New California Law Aims to Encourage Private Campgrounds appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
The Alameda whipsnake is a true local. Yet it remains a stranger to us—which makes protecting it trickier.| Bay Nature
Can crows help explain human interest and rituals surrounding death?| Bay Nature
A series about jobs in nature.| Bay Nature
The People Will Keep Fishing, Despite Forever Chemicals in the Fish| Bay Nature
A problem lake was doing pretty well this year. Then came a series of unfortunate water-quality events.| Bay Nature
I thought State Route 37 was awful, until I looked up. The post The Best Worst Commute in the Bay Area appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
A problem lake was doing pretty well this year. Then came a series of unfortunate water-quality events.| Bay Nature
The tribe has been without a land base for more than 200 years.| Bay Nature
Darwin saw them ballooning. Without any wind. Eventually some scientists figured out their electric secret. The post How Spiders Fly appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
These bold insects live in complex underground matriarchies that are seriously metal.| Bay Nature
When you’re cruising below the clouds at 3,000 feet, the Bay Area is just far away enough to still look familiar. Unlike flying commercial, says pilot Mark Dedon, a small aircraft allows you to keep the details in view—useful for counting birds, or tracking an island fox. Or, if you’re off the clock, just to look around.| Bay Nature
"When I heard the news last week that Malcolm Margolin had died, it stirred up a flood of memories of the intense and ultimately fruitful partnership that led to the launch of Bay Nature in 2001," writes David Loeb, Bay Nature's co-founder. The post Malcolm Margolin and the Birth of Bay Nature appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
Between ambitions and amphibians, an ecologist mediates.| Bay Nature
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them? The post Unmasking the Sea Star Killer appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
All 12 Bay Area “critical habitat” groves in a proposed federal threatened listing include eucalyptus. How do we protect a native that now depends on a non-native to survive?| Bay Nature
Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers in nearly 40 “living shoreline” projects in the US alone. The post A Living Shoreline, Built One Oyster at a Time appeared first on Bay Nature.| Bay Nature
“Long-term monitoring isn’t sexy,” says one source. But this data is how we know what is happening to the planet.| Bay Nature
A soundscape recordist is an escape artist.| Bay Nature
Our weekly newsletter delivers seasonal stories and news about nature and wildlife in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, plus nature events and inspiration to get outdoors! Sign up to receive our newsletter and you will unlock free digital access … Read more| Bay Nature
Climate change is already costing us a bundle. Proponents say this measure will save money in the long run. Opponents call it a ‘hodgepodge.’| Bay Nature
It was the middle of a triple-digit heat wave in the hottest July ever recorded in Bakersfield, California. Bat biologist Erika Noel stepped beneath a freeway overpass along State Route 178, and the air felt like an oven. Forty feet above, clustered among five joints of the bridge, were thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats emitting their trademark musk—an odor laced with the smell of ammonia and corn chips.| Bay Nature
For the past several years, wildlife photographer Sarah Killingsworth has shadowed biologist Matt Lau’s work helping the western snowies at Point Reyes National Seashore. But tricky ravens have become a problem of late.| Bay Nature
Local mycologists suspect death caps—huge and abundant in the Bay Area—may be competing with chanterelles underground.| Bay Nature
