Bay Nature Institute honors remarkable local conservation and nature leaders and activists at our annual Local Hero Awards.

Three heavy metals were found at concentrations thousands of times greater after the fire. The implications for wildlife hang ...

Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says ...

Naturalist and illustrator John Muir Laws is the author of the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Birds: A ...

« NEWTS AND ROOTS: A FAMILY WATERSHED HIKE AROUND LAKE LAGUNITAS Surviving the Wild” theme announced for Jack London State Historic Park’s 10th Annual Young Writers Contest » ...

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 ...

« Winged Migration Expo – Mare Island Vallejo Surviving the Wild” theme announced for Jack London State Historic Park’s 10th Annual Young Writers Contest » « Winged Migration Expo – Mare Island ...

ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON IN 1962, a 14-year-old boy named Jim Carlton scrambled down through thick brush onto the exposed muddy shoreline of Adams Point on Lake Merritt. The small beach was quiet ...

During the Bay Area’s damp winters, we can’t afford to be fair-weather hikers. Fortunately, some hikes in the Bay Area are best enjoyed in the rainy winter months. While vistas might be engulfed in ...