For this special 25th anniversary issue, we go big. We exult in restored natural places, try to think like a salamander, ...

So fun! It was a treat to poke around the fire trails for all things tiny and eight-legged. We saw turret spiders’ holes, crab spiders, and many others. And finally, at the very end of the hike we saw ...

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 ...

Brown pelicans flock at Bolinas Lagoon, a wetland of international significance. (William Legge) If you drive up Highway One some 15 curvy miles north of the Golden Gate, through the coastal village ...

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk conducts a blessing ceremony at the confluence of Cow Creek and the Sacramento River during Run4Salmon. Sisk envisions a volitional fish passage up Cow Creek, which ...

Yellowfin gobies, washed up on Lake Merritt's shore at the height of the bloom. (Courtesy of Damon Tighe) “That’s the million dollar question for people that study phytoplankton — why now, and why ...

Adult Chinook Salmon. Photo: PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The upriver salmon run is one of nature’s great migrations. Each year mature salmon make the long journey back to their natal ...

A badger and its mound, at Point Reyes National Seashore. (Vishal Subramanyan) A badger and its mound, at Point Reyes National Seashore. (Vishal Subramanyan) In late November, I was sitting in my ...

In a famous experiment in the early 1960s, the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running computer simulations of weather patterns, trying to see how they changed when he changed ...

A crow funeral can happen at any time. Farmers bear witness after shooting unwanted crows in their fields. Powerline workers see them should an unlucky bird zap itself and drop. Occasionally, the ...