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California's Delta is a nearly ideal place to grow many plants. Some troublemakers are taking advantage of that opportunity.
Despite rampant development, we still have a few pieces of the natural Los Angeles coast, because of fierce political battles to preserve it.
Some endangered species merit legions of squeeing fans on YouTube. One such ekes out a living beside San Francisco Bay.
It's no surprise that one of California's most endangered animals depends on damaged salt marshes: the California Ridgway's rail.
With just five percent of its original acreage left, SF Bay's saltmarsh is ever more important.
The tricolored blackbird was California's most common bird. Now, it's unusual to see one. And the state of California just decided it doesn't need protection.
It used to be so common that trawlers caught it to send to markets. Now, it will likely be extinct in a few years... if it isn't already.
The prehistoric Delta teemed with huge herds of hoofed mammals, and at least one large species of formidable carnivore hunted thems.
The prehistoric Delta was as biologically diverse a landscape as ever existed in California.
The Central Valley's Chinook salmon face an uphill battle if they're going to survive into the 22nd Century. Good thing salmon are really good at uphill battles.
California's chinook salmon runs were once marvels of ecological richness, and the biggest were in the Bay-Delta ecosystem.
In which a new, revolutionary possibility for humane protection of wildlife is tested, and the writer gets shot with a ray gun.