Here is the best from Bay Nature’s newsroom this year: the stories that delighted us, enraged us, got us outside, got us ...

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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 ...

Bay Nature cleaned up nicely at the 2025 Society of Professional Journalists Northern California, winning two awards for four ...

In late October 1769, a group of bedraggled Spanish soldiers arrived overland in the territory of the Quiroste Indians on the San Mateo coast. Motivated by news of the encroaching Russian fur trade, ...

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. (Lisa M. Krieger) In the gently rolling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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