Tag: California

A small population of mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains might be facing inbreeding problems and potential extinction in the next 50 years, according to new research. In Los...

Introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) may be hogging the flowers on California’s central coast, outcompeting native pollinators. When researchers surveyed bees in undisturbed meadows over 13 years, they saw alarming...

Twice a year biologists, staff and volunteers at the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge live-capture California condors, part of a remarkable effort to recover North America’s largest, highest-flying, and most...

Young citizen scientists aged 4 to 16 have discovered that many frogs and toads on California’s northern coast are infected with the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Seventeen percent of...

Wildlife conservationists and renewable energy proponents may share large-scale environmental goals, but they are butting heads over the fate of the California desert, The Washington Post reports. In collaboration with...

Get your camp gear ready! The San Joaquin Valley Chapter of The Wildlife Society will be celebrating their 50th anniversary by hosting a two-night camping trip, Aug. 5-7, 2016, at...

Earlier this week, 50 federally endangered Pacific pocket mice (Perognathus longimembris pacificus) were released in California’s Laguna Coast Wilderness Park as part of a project led by scientists at the...

Pacific martens had never been tracked by GPS collars in the high elevation forests they occupy — until recently. As part of a recent study published in the Journal of...

Habitat conservation programs in California’s Central Valley might be helping the area’s wintering ducks maintain better body conditions than they had in the past. As part of a recent study...

Wild fires have been big news in California in recent months, and now new research is revealing how these fires are affecting pumas (Puma concolor) in the area. “A mix...