1+ hour, 57+ min ago  (263+ words) The young mountain lion that prompted a police alert in the town of Mt. Shasta this week has a backstory: it was already relocated once and came right back. CDFW and Siskiyou County officials had previously captured and relocated the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (212+ words) The first detailed health data on juvenile salmon in the post-dam Klamath River is in, and the numbers are concerning. The testing covered 696 fish collected between March 17 and May 12 from three reaches of the upper river, from the Oregon state…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (216+ words) If you were planning a weekend trip to North Beach at Point Reyes, check before you go. A tiny bird just shut it down. Scientists found a western snowy plover nest on the stretch of beach between the North Beach…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (310+ words) Five mountain lions are regularly visiting a rural Lassen County neighborhood, walking within feet of front doors and ignoring every attempt to scare them off, according to the Lassen County Sheriff. The sheriff just declared them an imminent threat to…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (501+ words) Active Nor Cal HBO's "The Dark Wizard" wrapped up last week, and I cannot stop thinking about it. This is one of the most beautiful, nerve racking, and quietly haunting documentary series I have watched in a long time. It…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (269+ words) The grizzly bear has been on California's state flag for generations. It has not actually lived in California since 1924. A bill moving through the legislature wants to change that. Senate Bill 1305, the California Grizzly Restoration Act, cleared its first committee…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (241+ words) The biggest land use decision in the Tahoe Sierra in years could be settled tomorrow morning at a public hearing in Kings Beach. The Placer County Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on a scaled-back development proposal for Palisades Tahoe…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (218+ words) Something is going very wrong off the California coast, and the brown pelicans are the ones paying for it. A persistent marine heat wave off the West Coast is pushing fish into cooler, deeper waters, and the diving seabirds that…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (188+ words) The northern spotted owl has been vanishing across the Pacific Northwest for decades. But at Point Reyes National Seashore, the species is holding on better than almost anywhere else. There is currenlty an ongoing monitoring effort at Point Reyes, where…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (205+ words) The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge has shared a difficult update about the bald eagle nest that had become a favorite stop along the refuge's auto tour route this spring. Both eaglets have died. Despite what staff described as a promising…...