Cover: Wild Things
Metro Santa Cruz's annual guide to summer fun.

Walks on the Wild Side: Watching plants and critters get down with their bad natural selves is great summer fun.

Picnic Trilogy: Eating in the great outdoors--the concept is as old as the Paleolithic era and as fresh as your primetime summertime imagination.

Wild Animal Survival Guide
Long-Toed Salamander
Cougar
Chinook Salmon
Burrowing Owl
Clapper Rail
Coyote
Marbled Murrelet

News:
Welcome to Paradise
How predatory foreign species of plants and animals have stowed away on boats and imported produce and are merrily chomping through the local ecosystem.

Summer Events List: All the fun stuff around Santa Cruz County, from May through August.