Governor Gavin Newsom wants the state to foot $125 million of the $175 million purchase price for the former Golden Gate ...

Such trends and forecasts put into question the future of growing fruits requiring winter chilling hours, including pears and ...

More than six decades later, Point Reyes National Seashore's 150 miles of trails are being reconsidered from the ground up.

A first-of-its-kind collaboration between Ohlone youth and UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science almost fell apart when a ...

Spiders — and their webs — hold a special place in our cultural mythology. Tattered webbing is a feature of any horror flick, an icon of the evil that is lurking about with the spiders themselves ...

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. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

An old railway track used to haul lumber runs through a redwood forest in Northern California. By the early 1860s, the old-growth redwoods in the East Bay had been felled and logging activity had ...

Lupines bloom on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur, which Western Rivers Conservancy acquired and gave to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County nonprofit in 2020. (Photo by Doug Steakley, courtesy Western ...

Today, looking west from Brickyard, glitters San Francisco. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan / Berkeleyside) You might think the story of Brickyard Cove, the gleaming new public park at the Berkeley ...

State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

From creeping slime molds to brain-eating ciliates to kelp, protists may be the strangest and most misunderstood group of creatures in the tree of life. Haeckel pointed out the troublesome task of ...

» Access the McCosker property and its five miles of trails that weave around the creeks from the Eastport Staging Area (formerly the Wilcox Staging Area) off Pinehurst Road. » When the first phase of ...