Leatherwood blooms as early as November, but typically January to March. Flowers usually appear before the leaves, making the ...

There was a feeling in the air of curiosity, wondering what would happen on this hike and where the paths would take us. And as we walked through this park I had known my whole life, I reflected on ...

Tech billionaires are fighting for their proposed 400,000-person city in Solano County. At least 21 imperiled species depend on the ecosystems where the new city could be built.

Pistachio orchards, like these at Gilkey Ranch near Five Points, California, are producing the nut of the future, say farmers, because the crop goes dormant during drought and demands less water and ...

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 ...

Examining the human-engineered oyster substrate at Giant Marsh during a low tide in May 2025. (Sonya Bennett Brandt) This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring ...

Spire, an installation made from felled cypress logs by organic artist Andy Goldsworthy, greets the morning surrounded by a reforested grove of Monterey cypress seedlings. These plots are part of an ...

To hear Roger Castillo tell it, all of the City of San José—its million inhabitants, its sprawling residential neighborhoods, its glittery glass high-rises and office-park tech campuses—is more or ...

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 ...

Phytophthora ramorum, known as Sudden Oak Death, has led to a loss of millions of trees. Photo: Creative Commons [callout center]This story is an online companion piece to “Phytophthora: New Strains ...