Wildlife

It’s Rattlesnake Season in NorCal. Here’s Some Tips on How to Avoid Them.

As stay-at-home rules are relaxed around the state of California, hikers are undoubtedly anxious to take advantage of the opportunity…

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PG&E’s Draining of Lower Bucks Lake Presents Grim Fate for the Fish

Photo: Bucks Lake Fire Department Inc. Sitting deep in the wilderness of the Plumas National Forest is Lower Bucks Lake,…

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Keep Tahoe Bears Wild!

By Lisa Herron, U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Spring is in full swing in the Tahoe Basin…

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Bald Eagle Rescued from Interstate 5 in Redding has Died

It was an uplifting story of a group of officials who rushed to the scene on Interstate 5 in Redding…

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Trail Cam Video Shows Mountain Lion Walking Right Next to Unaware People in NorCal

A trail cam near Susanville captured a couple magnificent videos of a mountain lion recently, showing the big cat walking…

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Bald Eagle Rescued After Landing on Interstate 5 in Redding

Officials received a report around 6:15 am Wednesday that a bald eagle was standing in the middle of Interstate 5…

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WATCH: Kayaker Circled by Great White Shark in Monterey Bay

It was just hours after the fatal shark attack on a surfer in Santa Cruz when a kayaker was approached…

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A Plan to Remove the Scott Dam on NorCal’s Eel River is Gaining Steam

Scott Dam. Photo: PG&E A group has submitted a plan to remove a Northern California dam which will provide headwaters…

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VIDEO: Stunning Albino Deer Seen Near Mount Shasta

We’ve seen some recent sightings of an albino deer along the Trinity River just east of Redding, but the above…

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Watch a Mountain Lion in a Standoff with Coyotes in Yosemite

The above video is old, but boy does it show the chaotic wildlife of Yosemite National Park in action. The…

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Rare Albino Deer Spotted Along the Trinity River

It can be a stunning sight the likes of which many people never get a chance to see. An albino…

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WATCH: Coyote Attacks Small Dog on Tahoe Porch

A dog owner in South Lake Tahoe was surprised when a coyote ran up on his porch and attacked his…

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1.6 Million Fall Run Chinook Salmon Released into the American River

Although fishing season in four California counties has been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the California Department of Fish…

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Largest Restoration Project in Tahoe’s History Begins on Upper Truckee River Marsh

The California Tahoe Conservancy has begun construction on restoring the Upper Truckee River Marsh, the largest wetland restoration project in…

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VIDEO: Roosevelt Elk Take Down ‘Wild Elk’ Sign in Redwood National Park

Photo: Terry Feuerborn Roosevelt Elk are known to call the Redwood National Park home. There are seven herds in the…

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Sea Lions Spotted Underneath the Tower Bridge on the Sacramento River

As the temperatures begin to heat up in Northern California, seas lions are swimming upstream from the San Francisco Bay…

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Iconic Photo of Coyote at Golden Gate Bridge Beautifully Illustrates Quarantine’s Silver Lining

View this post on Instagram shelter-in-place has brought out the wildlife in the bay area. this coyote noticed some whale…

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Yosemite Bear Sightings Have Quadrupled Since Coronavirus Closure

Photo: Josh Carter The general human public still isn’t allowed in Yosemite National Park and it seems like the animals are…

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Shocking Video Shows Coyotes Howling on the Empty Streets of San Francisco

As the streets of San Francisco remain relatively empty due to California’s Coronavirus and subsequent shelter-in-place mandate, coyotes have made…

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One of North America’s Rarest Mammals Spotted in Yosemite

The Sierra Nevada red fox is one of the most elusive mammals on the planet, living in solitary and only…

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Mountain Lion Tranquilized, Removed from a Chico Tree After it was Chased by a Dog

A big, bad mountain lion thought it was the king of a Chico neighborhood. That is, until it met a…

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Watch Male Coyotes Fight Over a Female During Mating Season in Point Reyes

Mating season for coyotes in the Point Reyes National Seashore typically runs from December to March, and can be a…

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VIDEO: Wildlife Comes Out to Play in an Empty Yosemite National Park

Photo by Rakshith Hatwar Yosemite National Park has been closed to the human public for over two weeks now, and it…

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Stuck Inside? The Monterey Bay Aquarium is Live Streaming its Exhibits For All To See!

Photo: Monterey Bay Aquarium As many Northern California residents sit in their homes in self quarantine due to the Coronavirus,…

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Coyotes Are Taking Over the Empty Streets of San Francisco

The Coronavirus outbreak and California’s subsequent “shelter-in-place” mandate have left the typically bustling streets of San Francisco empty. As people…

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MASSIVE 230-Pound Sturgeon Caught on the Sacramento River

Although massive sturgeon have historically traveled up the Sacramento River to spawn on the Pit River, it’s very rare to…

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Over 200 Migrating Whales Seen at Point Reyes Over the Weekend

Photo: Merrill Gosho/NOAA The annual grey whale migration along the Northern California coast is beginning to peak and onlookers are…

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Dealing with Bear Encounters in the Northern California Wilderness

A bear with a tasty treat along Shasta Lake When bears turn up on city streets or caught foraging in…

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Photos Show the Ill-Effects of Seals Thriving in Northern California Waterways

Wildlife conservation in Northern California is a tricky subject. With each protection, or lack thereof, ripple effects are felt throughout…

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Check Out this HUMONGOUS Dead Chinook Salmon Found on the Mad River

Facebook user Ishan Steelhead posted a photo of a giant Chinook salmon found dead, floating down the Mad River in…

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California Ends Mandate for Striped Bass Populations, Setting Up the Fish’s Decline

The California Fish and Game Commission unanimously voted to amend its policy regarding striped bass, setting up a potential decline…

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California Trout Awarded $4.9 Million for Habitat Restoration, Including Two NorCal Projects

Thanks to the Fisheries Restoration Grant Program from the California Department of Fish and Game, California Trout has received $4,972,486…

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See Point Reyes Officials Attempt to Shoo Massive Elephant Seal Away from Busy Parking Lot

View this post on Instagram Northern Elephant Seal on Drake’s Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore. I couldn’t believe how fast…

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NorCal Man Wins California Wildlife Photo of the Year with this Incredible Eagle Image

Photo by Randy Robbins Susanville Photographer Randy Robbins goes to great lengths to capture stunning wildlife photography in Northern California.…

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Famed Redding Eagles Welcome New Egg to their Turtle Bay Nest

Liberty and Guardian incubating their brand-new egg in the Turtle Bay nest. Photo: Friends of Redding Eagles The famed eagles…

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These Backyard Trail Cam Composites Show the Vast Wildlife of Northern California

Randy Robbins is becoming a well-respected photographer in Northern California, recently winning the 2019 California Wildlife Photo of the Year.…

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Watch Two Eagles Fight Over a Salmon Along the Sacramento River in Redding

One of the more well know bald eagle’s nests in Northern California sits along the Sacramento River in Redding, with…

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Resurrecting Hat Creek – A Wild Trout Legacy in Northern California

That magical, terrifying, intense time between the late 1960s and early 1970s saw change sweeping across America in steady waves.…

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NorCal Man Fined $20K for Illegally Killing a Trophy Deer on His Property

Photo: California Department of Fish and Wildlife  In 2017, California Fish and Wildlife game warden Dave Moskat was on his…

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Proposed Gondola Connecting Two Tahoe Ski Resorts Moving Forward Following Environmental Lawsuit

A proposal to build a gondola that connects Tahoe ski resorts Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley has cleared a major…

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Another Endangered Gray Wolf Found Dead in Northern California

OR-54 fitted with a GPS collar. Photo by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Another endangered gray wolf was found…

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CDFW Begins Capturing Elk and Antelope in NorCal for Tagging and Collaring

Photo: California Department of Fish and Wildlife The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is planning to capture numerous…

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Viral Video Shows a Playful Coyote and Badger Traveling Together in the Santa Cruz Mountains

It’s been known that coyotes and badgers sometimes hunt together, but a new video surfaced recently shows that their friendship…

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Record Number of Bald Eagles Found at Trinity Lake, Surpassing Shasta Lake

For years, Shasta Lake had been the largest area of nesting bald eagles in California, but that’s no longer the…

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What’s the Deal with Sites Reservoir? Northern California’s New 13-Mile Lake is Gaining Steam

As water storage has become one of the major issues California faces in the modern age, officials are looking for…

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Rare Video Shows 5 Mountain Lions Together in Northern California

Mountain lions are notoriously solitary big cats, that’s why scientists at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife were perplexed…

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Monterey Bay Aquarium Livestream’s ‘Penis Fish’ Following Viral Point Reyes Story

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write – The public wants more penis fish and a California aquarium is…

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Point Reyes Officials Install Concrete Barriers to Keep 5,000 Pound Elephant Seals Out of the Parking Lot

Flickr/Rick Berg Drake’s Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is home to some of the most robust marine wildlife…

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Reward Increased to $7,500 in Endangered Wolf Shooting Investigation in Northern California

Earlier this week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife offered a $2,500 reward for information int the case of…

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$2,500 Reward Offered in Endangered Wolf Murder Investigation in Northern California

Lassen Pack The issue of wolves migrating back into California has become controversial, as wolf conservationists and cattle ranchers continue…

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Illegal Trout Confiscated by CDFW Fed to Rehabilitating Bears, Raccoons and Bald Eagle

Trout confiscated at Antelope Lake on April 28. Photo: CDFW On April 28, 2019, California Department of Fish and Wildlife…

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Over 100 Wild Horses from Devil’s Garden Have Been Placed into Permanent Homes

Photo: U.S. Forest Service It was a controversial move to begin rounding up the beautiful wild horses of Devil’s Garden…

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Thousands of ‘Penis Fish’ Wash Ashore on Point Reyes Beach

A fat innkeeper worm in Bodega Bay in June 2019. Photo: Kate Montana/iNaturalist Creative Commons Drakes Beach in the Point…

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Tahoe Bear Destroys Car Interior After Breaking In and Getting Stuck Inside

It’s become a story all too familiar for Tahoe locals – a bear breaks into a car looking for human…

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Bear Killed in Tahoe Vista Neighborhood Sparks Outrage

A man living in the north Tahoe neighborhood of Tahoe Vista was fed up with having bears break into his…

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Find America’s Oldest Juniper Tree in the Northern California Mountains

Photo: Save the Redwoods League Sitting about 160-miles southeast of Sacramento in the Sierra Nevada mountains is a tree so…

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Watch a Bald Eagle Swoop in to Catch its Dinner on NorCal Lake

This incredible video of a bald eagle swooping in to catch its dinner on a lake in Butte County was…

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Greased Bowling Balls and the Circle of Life on the Klamath River

Photo: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington “WHOA,” my teenage son screamed. “Watch out! Those rocks are slippery. I…

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Mr. T-Shirt the 400-Pound Bear Rescued from a Dumpster in King’s Beach

Mr. T-Shirt has become a bit of a celebrity in the Tahoe town of King’s Beach. Known for the white…

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Our Official Response to the People Upset We Showed a Bear Eating a Deer on Our Website

This week, we published an article that included a video of a bear grabbing a hold of a deer on…

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Shocking Video Shows Bear Devouring Live Deer in Yosemite

A video was shared to social media this week showing some of the most shocking wildlife footage in Northern California…

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To Dam or Un-Dam California? Now That’s a Complicated Question.

While some dams are old and nearly useless, major dams like Shasta provide flood control and water storage for millions…

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The Best Places to Go Bird Watching in Siskiyou County

Brought to you by Discover Siskiyou Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife In a world with…

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Eating Roadkill is Now Legal in California

Flickr/Don DeBold On Sunday October 15th Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill No. 395 which allows people to take home…

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Humpback Whale Tangled in Fishing Net Washes Ashore on Humboldt Beach

Humboldt residents were surprised when they came across a humpback whale washed ashore on Wednesday. The whale was tangled in…

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Watch: Bear Goes for a Morning Swim in Lake Tahoe

Bear sightings are common throughout the Tahoe area, but it’s usually rare to see them going for a morning swim.…

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Experience the Beautiful Fall Salmon Run on the Klamath River

Brought to you by Discover Siskiyou It’s fall in Northern California, which means the salmon who were once hatched in…

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Tahoe’s Taylor Creek is Full of Big Kokanee Salmon and the Bears are Loving It

Flickr/Rose Davies The salmon run has returned to the Tahoe area and Taylor Creek is currently up to its gills…

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Bear Cub Performs Ninja-Style Escape After Breaking Into Tahoe Home

A family of bears broke into a Tahoe home recently and had to make a great escape after volunteers with…

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5,000 Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Reintroduced into their Native Lake Tahoe

Photo: Parker Ulry Nearly a hundred years ago, Lake Tahoe was full of Lahontan cutthroat trout, the only native fish…

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Mountain Lion Breaks into NorCal House, Locks Self in Bathroom

A family in Sonora was terrified when they recently received a late-night intruder into their home – one of the…

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CDFW: Motorists Should Watch Out For Animals on the Road During “Wildlife Week”

Two young mountain lions are seen near Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near where construction will soon begin…

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Forest Service Begins Another Round-Up of Hundreds of Wild Horses in Modoc National Forest

Photo: U.S. Forest Service In the northeast corner of Northern California sits the Modoc National Forest, which is home to…

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Watch: Teens Come Face-to-Face with Hungry Bear in Truckee Cabin

Everybody worries about about a late-night breaking and entering, but when its a hungry 250-pound bear, your heart can pound…

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Buck with Arrow Stuck in Muzzle Found and Treated Near Yreka

On August 23rd, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife received a group of calls reporting sightings of a nearby…

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Watch: Sheriff’s Deputies Rescue Bear Cub Stuck in Tahoe Dumpster

This isn’t a new situation for Placer County Sheriff’s, who sometimes tend to need to deal with bear incidents more…

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The History of the McCloud River and its World-Famous Fish

Photo: California Trout It’s the strangest feeling. I can be standing for hours in a rushing trout stream totally absorbed…

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CDFW Seeking Public Comment Regarding Northern California Summer Steelhead

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking information relevant to the proposed listing of Northern California Summer…

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Yurok Tribe Acquires 50,000 Acres of Historic Land Surrounding Blue Creek

Photo of Blue Creek emptying out into the Klamath River. Photo: Yurok Tribe The Yurok Tribe celebrated a landmark victory…

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Pronghorn Elk Hunting Season Set to Open in Northern California

Photo: California Department of Fish and Wildlife Sagebrush flats, rolling hills, wide-open skies and crisp mornings characterize California’s general pronghorn…

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Catch a Big Sturgeon and Receive a Reward from California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Are you planning to go sturgeon fishing in California this year? Keep an eye out for a white tag on…

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The Battle Between Ranchers and Tule Elk Coming to a Head in Point Reyes

Flickr/DAVID MCSPADDEN Point Reyes National Seashore, sitting north of San Francisco on the California coast, is home to a flourishing…

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Trail Cam Footage Shows Lassen Pack Pups Howling in NorCal Wilderness

It was recently announced that the Lassen Pack, California’s only known wolfpack, welcomed a litter of three new pups. While…

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Millions of Butterflies Have Arrived on Lassen Peak for Yearly Migration

Every year in the fall, Lassen Peak is bombarded by millions of California Tortoiseshell Butterflies during their yearly migration. This…

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Discover a Wildlife Utopia at Lassen’s Manzanita Lake

Sitting right outside Redding, California is one of the most underrated National Parks in the United States – Lassen Volcanic National Park.…

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The Bats of the Yolo Causeway Marvel Onlookers with Nightly ‘Batnadoe’

Flickr/Bev Sykes Every summer just west of Sacramento, roughly a quarter of a million migrating Mexican free-tailed bats settle at…

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California Trout Pushes for the Removal of the Klamath River Dams

Support for the removal of four Klamath River hydroelectric dams is gaining steam. In January 2019, the Hoopa Tribe won…

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Meet Mr. T-Shirt: The 400-Pound Bear Who is a Local Celebrity in this Tahoe Town

View this post on Instagram DISCLAIMER: Sgt. Dellinger took this photo from a safe distance in his patrol car, away…

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Yosemite Park Ranger Teaches Important Lesson About Baby Deer in the Wild

Recently at Yosemite National Park, a visitor came across a seemingly abandoned fawn in the wild. Hoping to help, the…

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Cascades Frog Halts the Trout Stocking of Northern California Reservoirs

Photo: CDFW In 2017, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to include the Cascades Frog on the California Endangered…

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Woman Films as Tahoe Bear Attempts to Crawl Through Cabin Window

She began to film as a big black bear approached her Tahoe cabin. It seemed like a once in a…

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Fishermen Land GIANT Great White Shark in San Francisco Bay

Joe Gamez of Golden State Sportfishing has made a living catching sharks in the San Francisco Bay for the past…

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Inside the Controversial Plan to Kill Thousands of Mice on the Farralon Islands

Farralon Islands In the 1800’s, seal hunters would make the 27-mile boat trip west of San Francisco to the waters…

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Lassen’s Famed Wolfpack Grows with a New Litter of Pups

Trail Camera of the Lassen Pack The Lassen Pack, California’s only known wolfpack, has grown recently with the announcement of…

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NorCal Hawklet Adopted by Eagles Goes Missing with the Worst Assumed

It was a story that captured the hearts and minds of Northern California when a family of Redding eagles were…

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Redding Eagles Baffle Scientists by Adopting Baby Hawk

The Friends of Redding Eagles recently noticed an odd situation at the nearby eagle’s nest when baby red-tailed hawk had…

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Heatwave Cooks Thousands of Mussels to Death on NorCal Coast

Photo: NOAA Weather extremes have been palpable in Northern California the past seven years, with wildfires from drought and flooding…

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WATCH: Man Saves Fawn Swimming in the Middle of Folsom Lake

View this post on Instagram A fawn was rescued Sunday afternoon after it was spotted swimming in the middle of…

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Northern California Summer Steelhead to be Listed as an Endangered Species

Photo: NOAA The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to begin the process of listing Northern California summer…

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MUST SEE! Bear Casually Breaks Into Car in Heavenly Mountain Parking Lot

Tyler Silvestri was driving through the Heavenly Ski Resort parking lot on Monday when he saw a big bear wandering…

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