All clips written by Roger Coryell, owned by their publishers
THE NAVY AND COAST GUARD want to continue training with sonar and explosives off the Northern California coast into the 2030s, activities the military’s environmental review predicts will disturb migrating…
A small gray-green bird with white eyes has been living since Aug. 31 in a thicket beside the creek at the mouth of Big River, singing a song that belongs…
Drop a diver into Caspar Cove and the bottom looks like a parking lot — bare rock, purple sea urchins packed wall to wall, not a blade of kelp standing.…
In a damp burrow in the coastal scrub of Point Arena, an animal is drinking. It will drink again within the hour, and again after that, all day, every day,…
Every summer a line of volunteers in masks and wetsuits floats down the South Fork Eel, shoulder to shoulder across the current, counting the one fish almost everyone on the…
Almost all will learn a different river.
MENDOCINO CO., 5/12/26 — Clean, moving water may be the fastest single addition you can make to attract birds to your yard. A shallow basin works. A small fountain works. Even a slow drip onto a saucer will do it. Keep it shallow, change the water often, and scrub the basin; a dirty bird bath can...
A deceased adult male gray whale discovered on RCA Beach had traveled past Tiburon on March 28 before passing through the Golden Gate on April 1 and washing ashore in…
At the Mendocino County Fish and Game Commission's April grant hearing, commissioners spent the better part of an afternoon listening to some of the most ambitious habitat restoration pitches the…
At Tuesday night’s Sonoma City Council meeting (Feb. 4), the first public comment was about something most people would walk past without a second thought: a patch of Himalayan blackberry…
A 16-pound mountain lion cub from Southern California spent Thursday night in Sonoma County under close watch after state biologists couldn’t locate her mother.
You see them at the mouth of the Estero Americano, gliding low over the water with wings locked, skimming inches above the surface. Farther upstream, there is sometimes a flash…
A sweeping plan to remove two century-old dams on Northern California’s Eel River promises to revive native fish runs – but it also raises alarms for the wildlife that has…
Laguna de Santa Rosa — First light lifts over the Laguna and the water stirs: pintails skim the shallows, teal chatter in tight circles, and a raft of mallards lifts…
Did you know sea otters can eat a quarter of their body weight in food every day?
On Aug. 20, 1858, Darwin’s theory of evolution saw daylight for the first time. More than 165 years later, Sonoma County is still writing its own chapters of survival and…
We’re not talking about the friendly Lazy Bears in Guerneville.
An international team of scientists recently announced a major breakthrough in understanding sea star wasting disease, a mysterious epidemic responsible for decimating sunflower sea stars. More than 90% of this…
The author stepped onto their porch at 5:45 AM with coffee and the free Merlin bird identification app running. Pocket Canyon was already alive with activity.
In the hills just outside Santa Rosa, you’ll find something you don’t expect: giraffes. And zebras. And rhinos. And now, one of the best places in the entire country to…
There’s something oddly satisfying about discovering that your favorite critters are associated with downright bizarre words. Whether it’s a jaw-dropping piece of obscure trivia or a weird collective noun you…
In Sonoma County, a concerted effort is underway to secure the future of California's salmon, with a broad invitation extended to all interested parties. The California Department of Fish and…