It’s up to a county planning commission to decide if lands sacred to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band are sacred enough to merit protection. If the opinion is no, a sand-and-gravel quarry will likely be developed. By Mark Armao, in Bay Nature's Winter 2023 issue. Read by Victoria Schlesinger. Produced by Kate Golden. 

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Mark Armao (@markarmao) is a Diné journalist who hails from the high desert in northern Arizona. Now based in California, his recent work has focused on environmental issues facing Indigenous communities.

Cover art by Jean LaMarr: Our Ancestors, 2005/2006. Monoprint, 19 ¾ x 15 ¾ inches (overall), 30 x 22 ½ inches (image). Collection of the artist. Cropped.

The latest bird flu is the deadliest and most infectious one ever to strike Europe or North America, and it's ripping through the Pacific Flyway right now. But it didn't come out of nowhere. Let's not blame the ducks for this one, though. Reported and read by Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright. Produced by Kate Golden (@meownderthal).

From Bay Nature's Winter 2023 print issue. Read the story online.

Episode art by Joel Sartore.

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If you seek a slime mold, look about you. And get out your magnifying glass, if you have one.

A short tale of the origins, hungry intelligence, personalities and sexual combinatorial prowess of our primeval cousins the slime molds. By H.R. Smith (@strangerworks). Produced and read by Kate Golden (@meownderthal).

From Bay Nature's Winter 2023 print issue. Read the story online. 

Episode art by Alison Pollack (@marin_mushrooms).

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