The keys to successful endangered rat neighborhoods
Nothing can ruin moving into a new area more than finding out you have bad neighbors. Recent research shows neighbors are just as important for endangered kangaroo ...
California
Human water demand can imperil California’s endangered species
In Southern California, where scarce water resources are carefully managed, it would seem like wildlife would benefit when more water flowed in streams and rivers. ...
California system keeps an eye out for wildlife illness
A new surveillance system in California may help identify unusual patterns of wildlife illness and death as they unfold by tapping into data from wildlife ...
Cascades frogs in California are genetically distinct
Imperiled cascades frogs in California may need to be managed as a distinct population at the southern end of the species’ range. “We know they’ve blinked out ...
As the climate changes, are monarchs changing, too?
The western monarch butterfly population has been decreasing on its usual breeding grounds throughout the West. Last winter, overwintering numbers were the lowest ...
Flexible bees fare better
Bee species that can easily change their pollination behavior have a better chance of survival in an area of California that’s under stress from agriculture and ...
Tahoe bears carrying unknown disease exhibit fearlessness
A new disease is causing strange behavior in young black bears in California and Nevada. Videos and other reports have appeared around Lake Tahoe and in California ...
Condors to soar over Pacific Northwest again
The California condor will return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in a century. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service and the Yurok ...
Watch: Condor lays an egg in tree scorched by Dolan Fire
A female condor in a redwood forest burned in last year’s devastating Dolan Fire has laid an egg in the top of a charred redwood tree, offering hope for the ...
Puma presence impacts tree growth
Veronica Yovovich had always been curious about the shape of plants around her school campus. Many of the bay laurels close to the University of California, Santa ...