Bay Nature Spring 2023

Description

In Spring 2023, Bay Nature examines the woes of Dungeness crabbers—California's largest fishery—whose livelihoods are increasingly conflicting with humpback whales. We celebrate our Local Heroes, who are transforming the future for Bay Area nature and communities. We head to a long-delayed new Santa Cruz-area park, where frogs and newts may relearn how to coexist. We hang out with scientific detectives who are analyzing century-old nests for clues to forgotten ecologies, and with a sturgeon surgeon tracking those ancient fishes. We peer into brilliant salt ponds, and into dark nights where bright eyes shine. We immerse ourselves in wildflowers. We walk all the way to Pluto.

Cover photo by Darren Jew. This white-bellied humpback lives in the South Pacific. The North Pacific populations that travel the coast of California have dark bellies and are rarely photographed underwater because of their protected status.