21+ hour, 43+ min ago   (261+ words) activenorcal.com 1533:063017:86F:0000::2E[135:0095]G[008:0x0006] President Trump's September 4 executive order asking federal officials to consider stripping Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves landed hard in Northern California, where 13 packs now roam and ranchers in Siskiyou, Sierra, and Plumas counties have spent…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (247+ words) The best salmon engineers in Northern California worked for free, wore fur and disappeared almost two centuries ago. Now humans are copying their homework, and the results are stunning. Discover Wildlife reported that artificial beaver dams built in the Scott…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (245+ words) Some of the best salmon habitat in California isn’t a wild river at all. It’s a rice field outside Sacramento in the dead of winter. Research from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences has shown that when Central Valley…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (228+ words) Some of California’s rarest coastal habitat is losing ground to an invader from Europe, and the people fighting back could use more hands. The Redwood Parks Conservancy, working with the North Coast Redwoods District of California State Parks, is recruiting…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (237+ words) A dog walker in the middle of San Francisco got the surprise of a lifetime Saturday night after looking up and spotting a mountain lion perched in a tree in the Panhandle, the narrow strip of green connecting Golden Gate…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (182+ words) Gray Wolf Confirmed in Lake County as California’s Packs Push South and West activenorcal.com California's gray wolves just crossed a line that wildlife advocates have waited decades to see them cross: Interstate 5 Nearly all of California's wolf recovery since…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (276+ words) Lynnette Bellin has been swimming in Lake Tahoe for more than two decades, and in all that time the scariest wildlife she encountered was a crawdad. That streak ended Sunday morning near Hidden Beach, when a river otter grabbed her…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (282+ words) Tahoe’s Bears Are About to Eat 25,000 Calories a Day, and Your Trash Can Is on the Menu Active NorCal If your Labor Day eating plans feel ambitious, Lake Tahoe's black bears would like a word The basin's bruins are entering…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (182+ words) The fight over how far Californians can go to defend themselves against gray wolves has landed on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. Now animal advocacy groups are mounting a campaign to sink it. In Defense of Animals is urging California residents…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (180+ words) Tehama County ranchers are getting a new tool in the wolf debate: the actual data. County supervisors approved an agreement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife giving Tehama County access to the confidential GPS collar locations used to…...