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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's move to strip gray wolves of protection under the Endangered Species Act is based on insufficient science, according to a report by an independent panel of scientists.
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The "Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act," would take water from endangered fish and give it to San Joaquin Valley irrigators at bargain prices. And Representative Devin Nunes supported it by calling the threatened delta smelt a ...
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California's wildlife agency this week recommended to not protect gray wolves under the state's endangered species law. But here's where it gets interesting: It instead suggested that there are other means to protect the species.
Rep. David Valadao says current federal regulations divert water from farms to the Delta smelt, a small three-inch fish. He wants more of that water to go toward farmers. | Photo: Courtesy Peter Johnsen/USFWS
A bill by Central Valley lawmakers would halt the restoration of the San Joaquin River and send more water to farmers, but opponents say such legislation would make no difference in the drought.
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The Central Coast coho could be gone south of the Golden Gate.
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Let your lawn die. That's right, cut it off. No more water.
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New data is prompting a wildlife protection group to ask for better protection of orca habitat along more than half the U.S. Pacific coast.
A family of black bears in the Lake Tahoe area. | Photo courtesy NV Dept. of Wildlife.
Black bears eating garbage near Lake Tahoe when they should be hibernating is a result of the severe drought in California and Nevada.
Jerry Brown suspended CEQA in his drought declaration today.
CEQA, the state's foremost environmental law, no longer applies to the state's drought response.
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A blaze that was allegedly set by a trio of people tossing papers into a campfire scorched about 1,700 acres today in the Angeles National Forest.
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Very old trees may remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than young ones.
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"Salvage" logging poses a risk to a rare bird that relies on habitat created by forest fires.
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