Kent served the East Bay Regional Park District for more than 50 years. He died July 14, 2026.

California’s clean air, clean water, and wildlife are under attack. Even as the Trump administration takes aggressive action ...

But the smoke made trouble when it traveled. Cal Fire Angel Island might be one of the hardest places in California to hold a prescribed burn. Fire engines have to arrive on a boat, one at a time, all ...

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August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...

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 ...

Rocky outcroppings and serpentine barrens in the southern Diablo Range, near San Benito Mountain. Joaquín Murieta, both literary hero and historical figure, thrived in California’s rugged Inner Coast ...

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 ...

On any one of her routine treks in Deadman Gulch, Nadia Hamey will move downhill through thick vegetation in the San Vicente Redwoods, a swath of protected redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains ...

Big Slurpee, tiny straw: The view from a restored part of Tolay Creek, south of State Route 37 and Sears Point Road, looking north. A tiny orange tendril heads under the highway at the Tolay Creek ...

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk conducts a blessing ceremony at the confluence of Cow Creek and the Sacramento River during Run4Salmon. Sisk envisions a volitional fish passage up Cow Creek, which ...

Orange pore fungus (Favolaschia claudopus) Alan Rockefeller via iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0 On my very first guided mushroom hike at Joaquin Miller Park, 30 long years ago, I was gobsmacked at the idea ...