Sage Ono is a photographer and writer based in Monterey Bay, CA, focused on documenting aquatic ecosystems and the people who depend on them, as they both are increasingly impacte ...

Sage Ono peeks into a small pool on Swamp Creek, in search of rare McCloud River redband trout. Sage Ono It’s hard to imagine a more scenic place to be devoured by mosquitoes than wildflower-speckled ...

California Forever has announced plans for a 7,500 acre shipyard along 6.5 miles of undeveloped riverbank in the Montezuma Hills. It would be the largest greenfield shipyard in recent memory in the ...

Redwoods peek above a blanket of gray as fog rolls into Bay Area valleys, dripping down to nourish ferns and mosses below. In San Francisco, tourists shiver in the billowing gloom, fooled by the ...

How much is nature worth—specifically? In this issue, we look at the multibillion-dollar business that has quietly grown up around that question. We cover the growing pains of a Bay Area tech startup ...

There comes a moment in many a naturalist’s life when they discover nudibranchs, and lose their mind. For Ken-ichi Ueda, it happened in 2003. New to the Bay Area, he became fixated on the gemlike sea ...

Consider any single acre of land in the Bay Area today and all the lives it may have lived. There were vast stretches of time when an acre would have experienced warmer climes and then cooler eras, ...

The sliver of ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) wedged into a rocky crevice of the tidepool you’re peering into while the tide is low this July may be as old as 20 years. It owes its longevity to ...

The fine layers of blueschist at Turtle Rock were created when basalt was exposed to high pressure and low heat deep in the Earth. David Wimpfheimer Seashells unearthed during summer gardening. Masses ...

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For months, the two-inch Sierran treefrog sang alongside rival males in his breeding pond, enticing females with a thousand kreck-eks. As summer arrives, the pond dries and his breeding job is ...