Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers ...

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Fire The Burning Question in the East Bay Hills: Eucalyptus Is Flammable Compared to What? Twenty-five years after the Oakland Hills fire, people still disagree about whether blue gum eucalyptus is a ...

Where kelp forests used to grow, now legions of purple urchins can blanket the ocean bottom, creating urchin barrens. The barrens will persist until something—disease, predators, starvation, or ...

The Guadalupe River runs through downtown San Jose. (Photo by Andrea Laue) Exploration The Guadalupe River and the Hidden Heart of San José Guadalupe River Trail in San Jose ...

Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.

Photo by Scott Doniger Stewardship After Decades Away, River Otters Make a Triumphant Return to the Bay Area Scientists and volunteers track a remarkable return, and study how to keep it going ...

The Amah Mutsun, a Native American tribe in the San Francisco Bay Area, work to restore landscape ecology with traditional ecological knowledge.

Spiders create ideal traps with their webs. This is a guide to some of the most common types of spider webs.

Indigenous land repatriation is much discussed and little practiced in the Bay Area. Why is it so hard to return stolen land?

Grasslands managed by the San Francisco International Airport are important habitat for the imperiled San Francisco garter snake. (Photo by Anton Sorokin) Urban Nature The Wild Things Live at the ...