Early-career environmental journos: come work with me and the @baynature.org team! Our reporting fellows get in planes, boats, and redwood trees all over the SF Bay. airtable.com/appUTtRgoCrT...

If you blossom in winter, you don't have to compete with all the spring riffraff to get some sexy pollinator action. At least, that's one theory about our early bloomers. @baynature.org baynature.org/2026/02/02/s...

Death caps, psilocybes, and MANY other mushrooms are recent immigrants to the Bay Area—why? It comes down to The Law of Mulch (not what lawmakers called it at the time, sadly). @baynature.org baynature.org/2026/01/22/s... Very fun writing by Debbie Viess! #science #bayarea 🧪🍄

A saw-whet owl can eat a vole that is the SAME SIZE AS IT. Imagine. baynature.org/2026/01/13/s...

This story by the great @strangerworks.bsky.social filed under: spiders, spider goats, silkworms, a physicist out of his lane, the HMS Beagle, the US military, Krakatoa, "exquisitely sensitive" leg hairs, and our electric earth. @baynature.org baynature.org/2025/09/18/h...

What's it like working at a public agency that is an absolute drama magnet? @sbennettbrandt.bsky.social profiles an @thecacoast.bsky.social‬ ecologist who nudges developers to protect (my fave phrase) "the sacred jelly of frog eggs." Lovely. baynature.org/2025/08/21/j... @baynature.org

2016: drunken captain crashes boat into Sonoma beach 2025: rusty hulk finally dug out and hauled off What on earth took so long? Here's what. baynature.org/article/ship...

@tanvidg.bsky.social takes stock for @baynature.org of whether BIL and IRA's impacts on Bay Area nature have lived up to the mega-hopes. TLDR: They can't claw it all back. 💰 baynature.org/article/befo...

I think we need Dark Google Alerts that alert us when federal government pages on a particular topic wink out. Or at least, I need that.

All the enviro data that is deeply unsexy, that's collected for years, and then something happens and it is VERY NECESSARY ... and without it you are flying blind? That is the data Trump is threatening. (And, scientists who collect that data, we see you.) @tanvi.bsky.social @baynature.org

There's PFAS in the fish. PFAS is legit scary. Why don't people pay attention to fish consumption advisories? Well, I get it. Reading this took me back to times when I chose to fish in suspect locales so I could eat something besides lentils. baynature.org/2025/06/24/t... @baynature.org

🧵 THREAD: Introducing COYOTE Media Collective 11 Bay Area journalists are launching a worker-owned newsroom because we're tired of corporate control sapping all the joy out of journalism. Independent Bay Area journalism—with a BITE 🐺 1/4 givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Great yarn from @tanvidg.bsky.social about how 20 MILES of creek will be opened up to fish after DECADES! (And meet the fellow whose baby this has been for so many years.) Thinking of all those who take on enviro projects that seem almost impossible at the start. baynature.org/article/afte...

One of the coolest details about @tanvidg.bsky.social's outing with a field recordist is that a mic placed on a redwood produced this persistent low rumble—she thought maybe the sounds of fluid running through the tree. The sound of its lifeblood!? Does anyone know? baynature.org/2025/06/12/t...

At last, we did it. We managed to publish a sports story at @baynature.org. Pitch-perfect writing by the great Ted Trautman and photos to match from Florence Middleton. Deepest thanks to these two for making my editing summer more fun. baynature.org/2025/06/05/w...

The park and its partners aren't saying much beyond what's in the published docs—so @lisamkrieger.bsky.social dug through docs and talked to experts to find out what's next for Point Reyes. There's a grand vision ... and it's far from guaranteed. New on @baynature.org baynature.org/2025/05/15/p...

Good luck, little butterflies! No presh. Some hopeful news amid the turmoil, from @strangerworks.bsky.social for @baynature.org 🌎https://baynature.org/2025/05/01/survival-of-the-flittest-relocated-butterflies-are-spotted-in-san-francisco/

From @tanvidg.bsky.social on @baynature.org: answers on #CAProp4 timelines, what work it funds, what could change in the state budget process, which agencies to ask for money (there are more than 30!), etc. Let us know of other questions! #servicejournalism baynature.org/article/how-...

A small community in the #SFBayArea refinery corridor had barely gotten a big IRA-funded project off the ground before the money was frozen. Then unfrozen. And frozen again. Nice work from @rileyramirez.bsky.social. Now on @baynature.org, via @richmondside.bsky.social baynature.org/article/trum...

Apparently, when life gives you voles, that's what you eat. 📷 by @sonjawild.bsky.social/UC Davis 🖋️ Vishal Subramanyan baynature.org/2025/03/06/e...

Was thinking last night that laid-off journalists should really consider running for office. You know the issues. You can communicate. You know the importance of a free press and the dangers of social media oligarchs. You understand how to localize national issues. You know how to place stories.

How much do words (specifically: diversity, equity, inclusion, justice) matter? TLDR: not as much as actions, environmental groups say. Great work from @tanvidg.bsky.social for @baynature.org baynature.org/article/with...

@jennifermolidor.bsky.social Love that you are compiling Bay Area writer & nature writer starter packs. Thanks for doing that work. Consider adding me, please? I edit and write at @baynature.org

I wrote about wind for @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social: how to gauge speed from visual cues. You too can learn! Also, I painted the Beaufort wind scale. I find it satisfying to know this 200-year-old scale is still fresh (like a breeze—Force 5!). baynature.org/article/how-...

Some ideas for coping, at a time when DEI efforts are being erased across the country. New perspective in @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social baynature.org/2025/02/11/h...

this is the beginning of this story. what this means for our landscapes and worlds is only just becoming visible. open to any and all tips on what’s happening to you - email [email protected] and DM for my signal

the federal government is in turmoil. what does that mean for bay area conservation and communities? reporting for @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social: baynature.org/article/trum...

Layoffs: none yet that we've heard, but they're being considered. Work stoppages: yes, including critical seasonal work affecting endangered species. Fear: widespread. @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social baynature.org/article/trum...

Such effervescent writing makes a difficult topic (invasives that may be impossible to eradicate) go down easy. And Sonya, being Sonya, insisted on putting her face in the lake—she took the spooky photos! @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social @sbennettbrandt.bsky.social baynature.org/article/what...

Just published in @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social. If you work in SF Bay Area conservation—especially for/with the feds—we'd like to hear how the transition to the next Trump term is going. On or off the record. #WildBillions baynature.org/article/re-e...

Love it when @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social reporters get out. Or up. Also note the A+ illustration by Greg Clarke baynature.org/article/pilo...