A battle-cry of a screech was issued above my car. I looked up to see a flurry of talons and feathers over a telephone pole.

I saw literally every species of fish found in the lake,” except for the Clear Lake tule perch, Santana says. The ...

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, ...

One of Kimberly Stevenot’s responsibilities as a kid was to hang out by the side of the road and look for park rangers—or anyone else who looked like they might be trouble. The Tuolumne Rancheria, ...

One early summer morning in 2018, Jon Holcomb steered his fishing boat out of Noyo Harbor, just south of Fort Bragg, and headed toward Caspar Point, a jagged promontory along the rocky Mendocino coast ...

Euell Gibbons called it “stalking” in his 1962 best seller, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, which launched the contemporary foraging movement and made him one of my outdoor role models. Like Gibbons, ...

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 ...

In July, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill declaring the lace lichen—found along the Pacific coast and throughout the coast ranges—the state lichen. As of January 1, 2016, California will be ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains wore upon their shoulders the ancestors of today’s rivers. The waterways flowed down from the highlands to meander across the ...

“Out in the tules” was a phrase I first heard from a San Joaquin Valley-born college roommate more than 20 years ago. Like a lot of things about California, it was a little mysterious to an expatriate ...

Acorn woodpeckers consume acorns from a variety of oaks. (Photo by Elaine Miller Bond) Fall 1983 brought hard times to acorn woodpeckers in upper Carmel Valley. For the first year since I’d begun ...

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 ...