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 ...

Arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris). Jeremiah Degenhardt via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC 4.0 One day, while poking around beneath a pot in my family’s backyard, I discovered a glistening arboreal ...

Here to stay? Mats of Eurasian watermilfoil clog waterways in the Tahoe Keys, on Lake Tahoe’s south side. It can regrow from a wisp. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver ...

Amah Mutsun Native Stewardship Corps member Abran Lopez chops down nonnative hemlock at Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve to allow for the return of native plants such as coast tarplant. (Photo by ...

We’re peering down into a ravine carved out by Lagunitas Creek, looking for North American river otters. According to official California Department of Fish and Wildlife records, last updated in 1995, ...

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 ...

Grasslands managed by the San Francisco International Airport are important habitat for the imperiled San Francisco garter snake. (Photo by Anton Sorokin) Dropping into San Francisco International ...

A Monterey pine forest where wild Pinus radiata var. radiata still grows at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, one of three locations in California where the pine naturally occurs. (Photo by Janet ...

To hear Roger Castillo tell it, all of the City of San José—its million inhabitants, its sprawling residential neighborhoods, its glittery glass high-rises and office-park tech campuses—is more or ...

Pistachio orchards, like these at Gilkey Ranch near Five Points, California, are producing the nut of the future, say farmers, because the crop goes dormant during drought and demands less water and ...

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 ...

Spire, an installation made from felled cypress logs by organic artist Andy Goldsworthy, greets the morning surrounded by a reforested grove of Monterey cypress seedlings. These plots are part of an ...