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 ...
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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 ...
Toxic chemicals linked to sea lion cancer
Researchers believe a cancer that has killed sea lions in California for years is linked to toxic chemicals in the water. After two decades of research, scientists ...
JWM: Researchers find unexpected sea otter hotspots
As central California sea otters recover from past centuries of overharvesting, they’re gradually expanding into areas they historically occupied. By ...
Camera spies rare Catalina Island shrew
A Catalina Island shrew has made an appearance for the first time since 2004, confirming to biologists that the species is not extinct. The shrew appeared on a ...
To solve sea otter riddle, researchers look to archaeology
It’s a mystery of reintroduction. When Alaskan sea otters were moved from a nuclear testing site in the Aleutian Islands to the coasts of Washington and Oregon, ...
San Francisco Bay Chapter hosts career development workshop
Join the San Francisco Bay Chapter of The Wildlife Society on Nov. 9 and 16 in its first virtual workshop — Environmental Career Development. This career ...
Could more crossings help West Coast wildlife?
Highway 97 runs from California to the Canadian border along the spine of the Cascades. It crosses elk (Cervus canadensis), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and ...