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Years ago, a scientist proposed introducing coyotes to control the island’s deer population. Now, it seems coyotes have since ...

After two decades of grassroots efforts, 82 acres of precious Richmond parkland are set to open in early 2025. An op-ed by ...

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

The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...

Learn the basics of gull identification with Rudyard Wallen, expert birder, instructor, and gull specialist. Rudy highlights ways to distinguish the most commonly seen gull species and shares ...

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 ...

A few years ago, I texted my dad a photo of myself and a dear friend harnessed a few hundred feet off the ground, attached to a cliff by a trio of bolts and some rope, both of us smiling (though my ...