Enclosed within a quiet eucalyptus grove and clustered more thickly than leaves are thousands of monarch butterflies.
Fish are the most diverse group of all vertebrates (animals with backbones).
Early explorers found this evergreen oak throughout California’s Great Central Valley.
Welcome to Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline, a former landfill, now being transformed into a Regional Park.
At Ardenwood, the relative calm is suddenly filled with excited voices as a glossy peacock struts from the shadows into the sunshine.
It is summer in the rolling hills of the East Bay. The shade of oaks and pines offers some respite from the intense heat. In the darkness of a silk-lined burrow extending into the cool earth, the male Bay Area Blonde Tarantula (Aphonopelma smithi) transforms.
An isolated oak tree provides an island of food and shelter for individual insects, birds, mammals, mushroom, mistletoe, and other kinds of life.
It's that time of year again! The time when the East Bay Regional Parks are abuzz with activity as winged insects flit, fly, and flutter, gorging themselves on nectar from wildflower blossoms that have suddenly, and sometimes dramatically, appeared, painting the grassy hills, oak-bay woodlands, rocky outcrops, marshy wetlands, deep canyons, and broad valleys with various hues and shades of color!
Like living flowers, brightly colored butterflies grace the skies of our Regional Parks.
Freshwater marshes are rich, vibranthabitats that have received an unde-served bad reputation.