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State game wardens handed out 31 citations and warned several dozen additional fish harvesters at a wildlife law enforcement checkpoint near Jenner, California on Sunday. The checkpoint was part of a mounting effort by the California Department of Fish...
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While other websites celebrating Endangered Species Day are concentrating on the big and dramatic, we thought we'd celebrate by mentioning a few species that aren't big and flashy and glamorous. They're beautiful, but they don't flaunt it.
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The state and federal agencies responsible for monitoring the health of California's salmon and steelhead runs have announced a new program to help private water rights holders protect fish from the current unprecedented drought.
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In January, Caltrans agreed to use safer methods to exclude nesting swallows from a highway construction project in Sonoma County, but the alternative measures used may still be affecting wildlife populations in the long term.
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The Redwood National and State Parks have announced that their law enforcement staff arrested a local resident on charges of damaging ancient redwood trees in order to steal their valuable burl wood.
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Sadly, now it looks like Southern California has its own infectious live oak disease to worry about.
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OR-7, the first wild wolf in California since 1924, may have started a family north of the state line.
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Glaciers and ice sheets in western Antarctica are melting, there's nothing we can do to stop it, and the result will be a 10-foot rise in sea level within the next century or two. That's according to new reports by NASA scientists scheduled for publica...
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Since January, nearly 300 sea lions have been admitted to the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro.
A black-crowned night heron.
A grisly blunder Saturday by a tree-trimming crew in Oakland resulted in the deaths of black-crowned night heron chicks, and though the culprits are saying they didn't mean to cause any harm, I'm not buying it.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to take a California beetle off the Endangered Species Act's Threatened list, but two leading environmental groups are charging that the move is based on politics rather than science.
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Nearly half of California's birds migrate north each spring to forests that are under threat from climate change and development. A new report on what has…
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