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So fun! It was a treat to poke around the fire trails for all things tiny and eight-legged. We saw turret spiders’ holes, crab spiders, and many others. And finally, at the very end of the hike we saw ...

Here is the best from Bay Nature’s newsroom this year: the stories that delighted us, enraged us, got us outside, got us thinking. Great writing, short or long. Stories capturing the tumult of our ...