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Here's another story to file under "why we can't have nice things": the California Department of Parks and Recreation has closed night-time access to a popular road through the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park because someone's been mutilating ancient...
Two new videos out this week show how drones can actually help us learn about and appreciate California's wildlife.
Two plants found only in Death Valley National Park that have been on the Endangered list since 1978 have since recovered, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is proposing to remove them from the list.
If you have an uneasy feeling about where California's offshore rigs dispose of their fracking wastewater, you may well be correct. About half of the state's offshore rigs pump at least some of their wastewater right into the Santa Barbara Channel.
In wetter years, there's so much wildlife on the Carrizo Plain in San Luis Obispo County that observers sometimes call it "California's Serengeti." But a wildlife species that helps hold the whole ecosystem together is on the verge of blinking out of e...
A large environmental group is charging that a dramatic increase in the use of a popular weed-killer is the culprit in the last decade's plunge in monarch butterfly numbers. But are they blaming a symptom rather than the real cause?
Our attempts to cool the planet may make the desert too hot for tortoises, according to a leading biologist.
The Federal agency that operates one of the largest waterworks in California announced Friday how it plans to parcel out the meager supplies of water it controls in drought-stricken California -- and the Central Valley's wildlife refuges are going to t...
In what wildlife agency staff are calling a "worst case scenario," two different killer strains of a pathogen that causes infectious pneumonia have been found in Southern Nevada's desert bighorn sheep, and one of those strains is the same one that's be...
A network of wildlife crossings along the Trans-Canada Highway is showing promising results, which could have influence with California policy.
California can do a lot to keep its native salmon and other fish species going through this record drought, and through the inevitable worse ones to come, according to a leading fisheries biologist. But it's going to take hard work and hard choices, an...
Three southern sea otters were shot to death at Asilomar State Beach in the Monterey County community of Pacific Grove in September, and a federal agency announced Friday that a $21,000 reward has been posted for information leading to the capture of t...