President Trump's administration has proposed cutting the program. But Congress funds the program directly, so Congress will ...

Although the Legislature just shot down a bill to assess the possibility of reintroduction, the idea and debate persist. And everyone's got an opinion.

Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, in February 2026. Christopher Sulots, the park’s supervising naturalist, says in the current March heat wave, “I’m seeing things moving a little faster than they ...

Wild lilac cultivars come in all shapes, from ground covers to small shrubs to as large as a small tree. Zone 1 is a perfect ...

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 ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

Conservation often focuses on losses, but rewilding is an exercise in imagination—and optimism. In this issue, we follow California condors into East Bay skies, and consider the apex of ...

August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black bear fur can range in color from white to cinnamon to black and most shades in between. (angelmoo963 via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) On a gray early March morning in Sonoma County, everything is ...