Greg Friedman took some ice plant after an A’s night game. “I was entering a big gardening era of my life and decided if I couldn’t catch a foul ball that night I was at least going to leave with ...

Newsom’s executive order allows fire reduction efforts to bypass CEQA ahead of fire season. Some fire agencies are seeking to ...

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. (Lisa M. Krieger) In the gently rolling ...

In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver Brandon Berry is slurping up clouds of algae with an underwater vacuum cleaner. Snorkeling above, I can hear his Darth Vader breaths better than I can see ...

The environment is on the ballot this November—and not just in the presidential race. Amidst a plethora of other measures, Californians will vote on Proposition 4, the so-called climate bond, which ...

Wildcat Creek undergoes about as radical a transformation as a stream can, from its start in the Berkeley Hills to the tidal lowlands of Richmond, where it flows to San Pablo Bay. Beginning as an ...

The dredger Njord runs 24 hours a day, scooping up sediment to keep channels navigable for big ships. Now that sediment will help save our shorelines. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) As I arrived at the Port ...

The phrase “the golden hills of California” evokes an image of hills of golden grass, rippling in the wind. But to a mushroom hunter in our verdant, winter rainy season, it can mean something quite ...

This article has been conserved for you by Sonoma Land Trust. Learn more about our Online Article Conservation Program here. The lazy waters of Willow Creek flow under a small highway bridge just a ...

This article has been conserved for you by Sonoma Land Trust. Learn more about our Online Article Conservation Program here. Last winter’s parade of atmospheric river storms raised water levels in the ...

Amid the din of humming electric motors and gurgling laboratory aquarium tanks, life, new and precious, has been born. “Aren’t they so cute?” says Rachael Karm, a Sonoma State University research ...

» Access the McCosker property and its five miles of trails that weave around the creeks from the Eastport Staging Area (formerly the Wilcox Staging Area) off Pinehurst Road. » When the first phase of ...