53+ min ago   (282+ words) Tahoe’s Bears Are About to Eat 25,000 Calories a Day, and Your Trash Can Is on the Menu Active NorCal If your Labor Day eating plans feel ambitious, Lake Tahoe's black bears would like a word The basin's bruins are entering…...

22+ hour, 42+ min ago   (182+ words) One of the most controversial wildlife management programs in the West is showing signs it actually works, and Northern California’s old-growth forests are where the evidence is piling up. Separate research released the same week concluded that spotted owls have…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) California’s fast-growing wolf population just became the center of a national fight. A coalition of industry groups and nonprofits has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to strip gray wolves of their federal Endangered Species Act protections entirely. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (236+ words) Active NorCal Mountain lions have a public relations problem in Northern California Between livestock conflicts and the occasional too-close encounter, the big cats mostly make headlines for the wrong reasons New research suggests they deserve credit for something unexpected: safer…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ words) The rewilding of Point Reyes may have found its next candidate, and it’s an adorable one. Turtle Island Restoration Network published a new position paper making the case for reintroducing southern sea otters to Drakes Estero, the 2,500-acre estuary at…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (237+ words) New Wolf Map Show Where California’s Packs Are Roaming Now Active NorCal The California Department of Fish and Wildlife posted its newest batch of wolf documents this week, including a quarterly news update covering the spring months, a refreshed map…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (198+ words) The Return to Wild Part 2: How Wolves Make Northern California’s Wild Places Healthier Active NorCal When wolves disappeared from Yellowstone National Park, the ecosystem quietly fell apart Elk and deer, freed from their only true predator, parked themselves in open…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (232+ words) This is a four-part series documenting the return of wolves to Northern California. In the series, we will cover the return, benefits, and controversies of wolves in the state. More than a century ago, gray wolves roamed California by the…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago   (194+ words) A brown pelican can spread its wings past six feet. At Abbotts Lagoon, that is not enough. What nobody had done was count. Across 19 surveys in 2023, the pair logged 73 pelican carcasses tied to otters. They walked the shoreline every seven…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (240+ words) One of the strangest facts about Lake Almanor is that some of its most striking birds build their nests directly on the water, and they are doing it right now. The Lake Almanor Watershed Group is asking boaters, kayakers and…...