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Volunteer Rachel Avila is out and about at the California Raptor Center with one of the center’s education ambassadors, Grasshopper, a light-morph Swainson’s hawk. (Eunah Cho, UC Davis ...

Botanical Sketchbooks,a new book by Helen and William Bynum, collects some of the best drawings of the world's flora dating back to the 15th century. In the days before photography, naturalists relied ...

Riding high in the cab of a mowing machine, John Anderson drives slowly. Baby quail run for their lives. Anderson's aim is to harvest native plants for seed, he tells me as he gives creatures time to ...