The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America.

POST has purchased more than 6,000 acres of oak woodlands near Gilroy, saving it from becoming a sand and gravel mine. It’s ...

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we compiled the definitive guide to Bay Area hiking, from beginner-friendly walks to multi-day backcountry routes. In partnership with AllTrails. Bay Nature’s events ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most biodiverse regions in North America, home to hundreds of bird species, rare mammals, and wildlife found nowhere else on earth. Bay Nature has been ...

Britta Shoot is a San Francisco–based writer covering everything from culture and travel to the environment. Estero Americano Coast Preserve is home to migrating birds, rare grasses, and in the spring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, looking west from Brickyard, glitters San Francisco. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan / Berkeleyside) You might think the story of Brickyard Cove, the gleaming new public park at the Berkeley ...

Lupines bloom on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur, which Western Rivers Conservancy acquired and gave to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County nonprofit in 2020. (Photo by Doug Steakley, courtesy Western ...

Spiders — and their webs — hold a special place in our cultural mythology. Tattered webbing is a feature of any horror flick, an icon of the evil that is lurking about with the spiders themselves ...

Flowering bear grass is not a common sight in the Bay Area. But in 2018, it was plentiful in the pygmy forest at Bouverie Preserve in Sonoma County. With a puff of dense, white flowers sitting atop a ...

The Pan American Highway runs through the Sechura Desert in Peru, one of the driest places on Earth -- except when El Niño arrives. (Photo by A. Duarte, Flickr Creative Commons) A low-hanging, densely ...