These chinooks are likely hatchery strays. But they are still an ecosystem boon—and flaming-bright symbols of restoration at work.

The first update to a local State of the Birds report in 14 years shows restoration working—and some puzzling declines.

The 2025 State of Our Estuary assessment, released this fall at a regional conference, takes the pulse of the San Francisco ...

The first attempts to restore Mendocino’s streams for coho and other salmon began in the 1960s. Decades of logging in the ...

On a waterlogged highway, cars drive into the sea. Truck cabs and bus windows poke up above the waves; sedans are fully submerged, burbling through the water like schooling fish. This is not a scene ...

Later this year, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical ...

Lifelong San José resident Apollo-Genesis Braddock-Layton has fished the Pacific Coast’s shore for as long as he can remember—catching horseshoe crabs, smelt, and stingrays while listening to his ...

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 ...

Along the marsh’s edge at Cache Creek Nature Preserve, 20 miles northwest of Sacramento, Diana Almendariz harvests bundles of tule (Schoenoplectus acutus)— green, smooth cylinders up to 10 feet high.

The 2025 Local Hero Awards will be held on April 6 from 2pm – 6pm at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. We invite you to join us for this celebration! General Admission tickets are $150. Bay Nature ...