MENDOCINO, CALIF. — Shaun Stratton pulled on his wetsuit, grabbed his inner tube and headed to the beach to take part in one of California’s riskiest pastimes: hunting for abalone. It’s not that ...

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Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things nature. She holds a degree in Journalism from Ohio University. Abalone ...

It is an odd spot for a miracle, this motley collection of beachfront shacks and sea-scoured concrete tanks clinging to a sunburned bluff above the Pacific just north of Morro Bay. But it’s hard to ...