Donna Graves couldn’t believe it when she heard that the LGBTQ+ exhibit she created at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, California, was in jeopardy.

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Whitney Grover is a life-long coastal Californian, enthusiastic birder, and lover of the Bay Area’s unique ecology. In 2023 she earned a Master of Science degree in Environmental Management from the ...

Bay Nature Talk: Birding By Ear Join Bay Nature Magazine and expert birder and artist Clay Anderson for a virtual talk about birding by ear on March 26, from 12 – 1pm. This will be a fun, informal ...

This summer, our special Explore issue of the magazine is a trove of ideas and information for recharging your biophilia.

We shall fight on the beaches Outside the Coliseum’s grounds, ice plant isn’t always welcome. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife lists it rather unambiguously as an “invasive to avoid” in ...

How coastal scrub gave way to grasslands With its cool, clean winds, dense fog and ever-changing skies, Point Reyes was once a place of dense, impenetrable stands of coastal scrub and forested ridges, ...

Now, what was already one of the best-funded lakes in the West is getting an extra $17 million to fight its aquatic invaders, from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), via the U.S. Fish and ...

A whale of a buffet Before the Blob, only lost humpback whales ended up in the Bay, as they journeyed from baby-making summers off Mexico’s coast to frigid feasts in the Bering Sea. Keener remembers ...