Tiny by volcano standards. The Sutter Buttes are 10 miles wide and poke up 2,000 feet. In classic butte fashion, they are ...

With plainfin midshipmen, black-tailed jackrabbits, black-headed grosbeaks, and yellow-faced bumblebees. Life in spring ...

Instinct does play a role in nest-building, but so much more seems to be involved. Entwined with instinct are reason, ...

With a little luck we have all found that person, or group of persons, who are regularly game to join, or plan, our outdoor ...

BLM wants to open up areas for drilling near beloved Bay Area parks and wild spaces. We break down how likely that is.

Nearby Tomodachi Park is a small, 8.7-acre park within Sebastopol’s larger Laguna Wetlands Preserve. A short trail leads to a ...

In an unprecedented heat wave, we check in on the newts, the bears, the mussels, and all those flowers that just woke up for spring.

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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 ...

A long belt of high marsh called Strip Marsh East protects troubled SR 37 from erosion and flooding. If the highway is raised, restored marsh can also protect its fellow marshes to the north. It’s ...

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 ...