Chris Clarke
Chris Clarke was KCET's Environment Editor until July 2017. He is a veteran environmental journalist and natural history writer. He lives in Joshua Tree.
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.
Orange County isn't all upscale shopping, gated communities, and the 405. It's also got quite a bit of wild nature still left within the county lines..
Those plastic-skimming booms won't take much plastic from the ocean, but they will injure wildlife and become more broken ocean plastic.
BrightSource Energy is abandoning its proposed Hidden Hills solar plant in Inyo County.
A bill the would close a loophole in California's ban on sales of ivory and rhinoceros horn is heading for the Assembly floor.