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A great blue heron with a captured vole at Malibu Lagoon in 2012, before restoration work began.
California State Parks has dramatically cutback on watering tens of thousands of native plants at the newly restored Malibu Lagoon in the face of a statewide drought.
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Bad news for a Northern California toxicologist studying the effects of rat poison on the state's wildlife: his dog was apparently killed in an act of retaliation for his work, poisoned by the same highly toxic chemical whose effects the man had been s...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened public comment on the amount of habitat to protect for a small yellow flower that grows in just a few places in the eastern Sierra Nevada northwest of Reno.
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In response to a petition by a conservative legal group, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to remove a small fish that lives in only a few streams in California and Oregon from the Endangered Species List.
Mountain lion file photo. | Photo: Courtesy California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Several mountain lion sightings in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park have prompted warning signs and trail monitoring.
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The weekend's heavy rains may have put a damper on an annual coyote killing contest centered in the Modoc County town of Adin, but the close of the event took an unexpected turn anyway: with an alleged assault by the contest's main sponsor on an oppone...
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You don't have to travel to Africa or Asia to see wildlife populations under severe pressure by illegal market hunting. According to wildlife law enforcement officials speaking at an online press event Tuesday, several California wildlife species are h...
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Sad news for fans of mountain lions in the Santa Monicas and nearby mountain ranges: Three baby mountain lions were killed in two separate incidents in the last half of January. And biologists are saying the unfortunate deaths underscore the need for m...
A gray whale off the coast of Morro Bay in December 2013.
Scientists report that this may be a near record season for the number of whales migrating southbound through the waters off the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
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Want to hike in some of California's most beautiful mountains and make an important contribution to conservation science at the same time? The agencies behind the 35th annual desert bighorn sheep count in the San Gabriel Mountains can use your help the...
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A dollar thirty five doesn't buy a whole lot of grub these days. For you, or your domesticated animals. But if you're trying to feed livestock on public lands, there's good news.
A dry California landscape.
Like California's depleted reservoirs, Republicans' water politics keep coming up empty.
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