Hiking in the Silicon Valley Hiking Fog Sipping Coastal Redwoods July 25, 2025 The tallest trees in the world, the coastal redwood trees of Northern California, have a remarkable ability to use fog as a source of moisture. Forest Bathing in the Coastal Redwoods July 9, 2025 What Those Orange and White Striped Signs Mean June 21, 2025 Clarkias: Summer blooms in the Santa Cruz Mountains June 20, 2025 Hiking the Fifield-Cahill Ridge Trail May 31, 2025 Guided Wildflower Hikes at Máyyan ‘Ooyákma April 21, 2025 Wildlife and Birding in the Silicon Valley More Birding Wing-Spreading in Steller’s Jays Birding MeadowLarks Versus Horned Larks Birding Interspecific Feeding: Why That Dark-eyed Junco is Raising a Cowbird Birding Blue Birds in the Santa Cruz Mountains Fauna Western Fence Lizards Flora Plants That Don’t use Photosynthesis in the Bay Area