Each palm-size owl caught is a rush, not only because it is an encounter in the dark with pure wildness. Saw-whets are one of ...
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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 ...
A long belt of high marsh called Strip Marsh East protects troubled SR 37 from erosion and flooding. If the highway is raised, restored marsh can also protect its fellow marshes to the north. It’s ...
Tiny silver fish float up at Clear Lake in August. Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians records indicate this was the biggest fish kill since 2017. (Courtesy of Luis Santana) As Luis Santana motored out ...
A white-headed woodpecker stirs the dawn quiet, hammering at a patch of charred bark stretching 15 feet up the trunk of a ponderosa pine. The first streaks of sun light the tree’s green crown, sending ...
Later this year, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical ...
A money spider (Tenuiphantes sp.) balloons, under controlled conditions, from its daisy perch. You can see the trichobothria (leg hairs) and dragline silk in this picture. (Michael Hutchinson via ...
A less-frequently spotted Vespula in our area: the forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica). (Tony Tiwane via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) Ask almost anyone about yellowjackets; they will have a harrowing tale ...
Examining the human-engineered oyster substrate at Giant Marsh during a low tide in May 2025. (Sonya Bennett Brandt) This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring ...
Jeff Miller stands atop the fish barrier at the base of Niles Community Park as they rescue stranded steelhead in 2016. (Courtesy of Jeff Miller) In the summer of 1997, Jeff Miller went for a long ...
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 ...
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