Beside the manicured lawn at Cragmont Elementary, a Berkeley Hills school overlooking the San Francisco Bay, is a small hillside patch of tangled trees and weeds—coyote brush, sage brush, wood rose, ...
Pond sliders (Trachemys scripta) aren’t native to the Bay Area but have spread with the help of the pet trade. This one was spotted in Virginia. (bwood708 via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) As a California ...