Wildlife
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Jun- 2019 -24 June
Outdoors
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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22 June
News
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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18 June
Outdoors
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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7 June
News
Hunting and Fishing will be Expanded into NorCal Wildlife Refuges
Colusa National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife. The federal government announced a major expansion of hunting and…
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7 June
Outdoors
Tahoe Bear Gets Trapped in Car, Proceeds to Demolish its Interior
There was another car burglary in Tahoe on June 5th and, like most other car burglaries in the area, the…
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May- 2019 -31 May
North Coast
Rare Sight: Pod of Killer Whales Spotted in Humboldt Bay
A rare sight was gifted to visitors of Humboldt Bay today when a pod of killer whales were seen cruising…
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26 May
Outdoors
Video of Baby Deer Being Rescued in Auburn will Melt Your Heart
A group on a boat found a baby deer longing for help in the Lake of the Pines in Auburn…
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24 May
News
Fish and Wildlife Officials Offer $2,500 Reward for Information in Humboldt Elk Poaching Case
Photo: California Department of Fish and Wildlife In December 2018, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife pleaded with the…
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21 May
North Coast
Come Face-to-Face with a Giant Whale with this NorCal Kayak Tour
View this post on Instagram WHALE WATCH: A tour group of kayakers were taken aback when they suddenly encountered a…
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18 May
Outdoors
Watch: Bear Scampers Along Squaw Valley Run During May Storm
For the past month, bears have been awakening from their winter hibernation to return in droves to the Tahoe area…
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17 May
News
“Jump Start” Winter-Run Chinook Salmon Return to Coleman Fish Hatchery
Photo: Jacie Knight/USFWS Wildlife and water management officials are heralding the early returns of a special group of winter-run Chinook…
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13 May
News
New California Bill Would Allow Drivers to Eat Roadkill
Flickr/Don DeBold If you’re driving down a California highway and accidentally hit an animal, it’s currently illegal to remove that…
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9 May
News
Walk on the Wild Side Animal Show Returns to Turtle Bay Exploration Park
See a porcupine up close and personal or marvel as an owl flies inches from your head at Turtle Bay…
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8 May
Shasta Cascade
Showcasing the Animals of Turtle Bay Exploration Park
Most families have some sort of pet, whether it be a dog, cat or goldfish. Humans and animals are connected…
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7 May
News
Threatened California Frogs Making a Comeback in Yosemite After a 50-Year Absence
Red-Legged Frog Release. Federally threatened California red-legged frogs are showing signs of a return to Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park after…
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2 May
Lassen
Fisherman Cited for 10 Times the Legal Limit of Trout in Plumas County
On Sunday, April 28, a concerned angler called in a tip to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife after…
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1 May
Wildlife
Meet Bubba – A Ginormous Bear Living in this Northern California Neighborhood
There’s a neighborhood in Truckee, California that has an unusual neighbor. They call him Bubba – and he’s a ginormous…
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Apr- 2019 -30 April
News
Off-Leash Dog Kills Endangered Seal at Point Reyes National Seashore
Guadalupe fur seal. Photo/The Marine Mammal Center Point Reyes National Seashore is known to be the home of a diverse…
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26 April
Butte
Jumping Chinook Salmon Seen in Chico’s Lower Bidwell Park
It’s that time of year when spring-run Chinook salmon are returning to the places they hatched to spawn in Northern…
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26 April
North Coast
You Can Help Solve a Centuries-Old Mystery on the Northern California Coast
The nature of Northern California is full of so much beauty, and possibly just as much mystery. There is still…
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26 April
News
4,645 Pounds of Trash Removed from Illegal Marijuana Sites in Klamath National Forest
Photo by the Integral Ecology Research Center When recreational marijuana was legalized in California in 2018, U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott…
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26 April
News
Contractor Chosen for Removal of Four Klamath River Dams
Photo: California Trout In January, a lawsuit was won by a group of Native American and conservation groups looking to…
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26 April
News
Federal Government Considers NorCal’s Summer-Run Steelhead for Endangered Species List
Photo by NOAA In November 2018, the Friends of the Eel River petitioned to list Northern California’s summer-run steelhead on…
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24 April
Outdoors
Watch a Giant Bobcat Just Strolling Down a Tahoe Road
With the snow melting in the Tahoe region, wild animal sightings (mostly bears) are on the rise. One of the…
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23 April
Sacramento
Caught on Camera: Cat Takes on Coyote on Northern California Porch
When a coyote approached a porch in North Highlands last week, it probably didn’t expect to encounter a ferocious protector.…
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22 April
News
“Fish in the Classroom” Program Releases Steelhead into the Sacramento River
Teaching kids about the importance of the ecosystems in Northern California waterways has become an important initiative, with one school…
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20 April
Bay Area
Dead Whales are Washing Up on NorCal Shores at an Alarming Rate
Photo: Clara Field / The Marine Mammal Center On Monday, April 15th, commercial crabbing season in California came to a…
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19 April
Outdoors
Caught on Camera: Wild Animals are Returning to Whiskeytown Following Carr Fire
The Carr Fire had many ill effects on the human community of Shasta County, burning over 1,600 structures, claiming seven…
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19 April
Outdoors
Shocking Video Shows Bear Cub Cuddling Up to Snowboarder at Northstar in Tahoe
The above video posted to YouTube of a bear cub approaching a snowboarder at Northstar in Tahoe went viral, and…
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18 April
North Coast
Vintage Photos of Lumberjacks and the Giant Northern California Redwoods they Felled
Northern California is known for being the home of some of the oldest and largest trees in the world. The…
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17 April
Destinations
Explore the Diverse Wildlife of Tule Lake in the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge
Tule Lake Refuge, established in 1928, rests in the fertile and intensely farmed Tule Lake Basin in Modoc County. The almost 40-thousand-acre refuge…
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16 April
North Coast
WATCH: National Geographic Documents Pesticide Damage at Illegal Marijuana Grow Sites in NorCal
When recreational marijuana was legalized in California in 2018, U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott announced that his concerns won’t lie within…
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16 April
Bay Area
International Succulent Smuggling Still a Major Problem on Northern California Coast
Photo: California Department of Fish and Wildlife The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is stepping up their game…
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16 April
Lassen
Lassen Man Convicted in California’s Largest Ever Poaching Case
A Northern California man has plead guilty of poaching more than 150 protected birds in Lassen County and has been…
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11 April
News
Enthusiastic Bear Cub Spotted, Captured in Yuba City Neighborhood
We see a lot of bear sightings all throughout Northern California, mostly in the Tahoe area. But Yuba City had…
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11 April
Butte
Turkey Hunter Comes Face-to-Face with Hungry Mountain Lions in Butte County
Billy Driessen, known for being a fishing guide in the area and catching giant bass, recently had a run-in with…
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10 April
News
185,000 Winter-Run Chinook Salmon Released into Battle Creek by Coleman Fish Hatchery
Press Release from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 185,000 marked juvenile winter-run…
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9 April
Sacramento
Nesting Birds Close Down Sacramento High School’s Brand-New Field
Kildeer bird Construction workers had just finished the brand-new cork and synthetic turf field at Sacramento’s Rio Americano High School…
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5 April
News
Bringing the Majestic Condor Back to Northern California
Press Release from US Fish and Wildlife, Redwood National Park Service, and the Yurok Tribe: Photo from the National Park…
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4 April
North Coast
Kayakers Surprised by Surfacing Whale on Humboldt Coast
A group of kayakers taking the Whale and Wildlife Tour from Kayak Trinidad received a once in a lifetime experience…
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2 April
News
Yosemite Conservancy Provides $15 Million for Yosemite National Park Projects
Yosemite Conservancy is providing $15.3 million in support to Yosemite National Park to protect the rare Sierra Nevada red fox, revitalize…
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2 April
News
Tahoe Couple Adopts Orphaned Northern California Cubs
In early March, two small bear cubs were found along Highway 96 just outside Yreka. The cubs were moved to…
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Mar- 2019 -31 March
News
Mistake Causes the Deaths of 390,000 Juvenile Salmon at Coleman Fish Hatchery
Photo: Steve Martarano/USFWS An unfortunate mistake led to the deaths of 390,000 juvenile fall Chinook salmon at the Coleman National…
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29 March
News
Jaws of Life Used to Rescue Deer Stuck in Lodi Fence
Firefighters arrived at a scene in Lodi on Thursday where they discovered a desperate deer stuck in a fence. The…
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29 March
News
NorCal’s Dungeness Crab Season Cut Short to Protect Whale Populations
Flickr/Mike Baird This week, a legal settlement reached between state regulators, environmentalists and crab fishermen will cut the commercial fishing…
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27 March
Butte
Crew Mistakenly Cuts Down 27 Healthy Oak Trees in Bidwell Park
The City of Chico Public Works directed an inmate crew to cut and remove a group of damaged Catalpa trees…
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25 March
Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay is Currently Full of Migrating Whales
Photo: San Francisco Whale Tours The San Francisco Bay has recently seen an increased population of migrating whales and marine…
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22 March
News
Sites Reservoir Plan Publicly Criticized by Conservation Groups
Proposed site of Sites Reservoir. Photo: Sacramento River Preservation Trust As California continues to create new water storage initiatives, the…
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22 March
Outdoors
Shasta Pack Murder? What Happened to NorCal’s Famed Gray Wolfpack?
Photo of the Shasta Pack in 2015 Four years ago, two wolves had a litter of five pups in the…
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21 March
News
Flock of Millions of Butterflies Migrating Towards Northern California
With the unbelievable precipitation in California this winter, flower superblooms have exploded the population of painted lady butterflies in the…
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19 March
Butte
Increased Populations of Ticks Found in Butte County
The western black-legged tick The Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District reminded Butte County residents that tick populations continue…
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17 March
News
Abandoned Bear Cubs Found in Far NorCal Spark Poaching Investigation
Earlier this month, two small bear cubs were found along Highway 96 just outside Yreka. The cubs were moved to…
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13 March
News
Public Warned Against Eating Fish in Whiskeytown Lake
Flick/Wayne Hsieh While Whiskeytown Lake isn’t known for its world-class fishing, there are certainly some fish to be caught in…
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11 March
North Coast
Watch: 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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8 March
Video
Watch Falcons Hunt Megaflock of Thousands of Starling Birds in NorCal Sky
Watch the video here When the European starling was brought to the United States in the 1800’s they immediately flourished,…
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6 March
Bay Area
Watch this Poor Duck Get Sucked Into the Lake Berryessa Glory Hole
With water running high in Northern California this week, the Lake Berryessa glory hole has overflowed, pumping water into the…
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6 March
News
“Trout in the Classroom” Program Flourishing in Northern California Schools
Teaching kids about the importance of the ecosystems in Northern California waterways has become an important initiative, with one school…
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Feb- 2019 -28 February
Lassen
Researchers Recapture Rare Red Foxes in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Photo: Lassen Volcanic National Park State wildlife biologists in Lassen Volcanic National Park have been trying to learn about the…
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26 February
News
Turtle Bay Partners with California Trout on Aquatic Adventures Program
Photo: Turtle Bay Turtle Bay Exploration Park, a museum and animal conservation along the Sacramento River in Redding, announced a…
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15 February
News
Over 22,000 Baby “Winter Run” Chinook Salmon Released into the Sacramento River
Under the cover of darkness last night, officials transported over 22,000 baby “winter run” chinook salmon to the Sacramento River…
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4 February
News
Rare “Mutant” Coyotes with Blue Eyes are Only Found in Northern California
Scientists are following a trend of coyote sightings in Northern California, but these coyotes are rare. In fact, they are…
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2 February
Outdoors
Watch Black Bear Defend its Cub Against Sheriff’s Officers in Tahoe
It’s winter in Tahoe and, for the most part, bears have gone into some form of hibernation. But black bears…
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Jan- 2019 -30 January
News
Seals Took Over a Point Reyes Beach During Shutdown, Forcing it to Close Indefinitely
Flickr/Rick Berg When the Point Reyes National Seashore was forced to close during the record 35-day government shutdown, visitors weren’t…
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29 January
News
Hoopa Tribe Wins Federal Lawsuit Paving Way for Klamath Dam Removal
Photo: California Trout The Hoopa Valley Tribe emerged victorious from federal court of appeals against PacifiCorp on Friday, with a…
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26 January
News
Squaw’s Olympic Meadows to be Acquired and Preserved for Public Use
Photo Courtesy of the Poulsen Family Set in a beautiful meadow with Squaw Creek meandering through and the peaks of…
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24 January
North Coast
Northern California Chinook Salmon up for Endangered Species Consideration
Spring Chinook Salmon. Photo courtesy Michael Humling, US Fish & Wildlife Service The recent volatility of Northern California waterways has…
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Dec- 2018 -21 December
News
Wild Horses Rounded Up in the Devil’s Garden are Protected… For Now
Photo by Stacy Snow In October 2018, officials rounded up nearly 1,000 mustangs in Modoc County’s Devil’s Garden, know for…
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15 December
North Coast
Fish and Wildlife Officials Seek Public Help in Humboldt Elk Poaching Investigation
Via Flickr/Terry Feuerborn The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking information about an elk poaching case currently…
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14 December
Bay Area
Northern California Abalone Diving Banned Until 2021
Photo: California Department of Fish and Game After prohibiting abalone fishing in 2018, the California Fish and Game Commission has decided to…
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10 December
Destinations
Beautiful New Trail System Coming to the Grove of Titans in Jedediah Smith Redwoods
The Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, located in the northwest corner of California near Crescent City, is one of the most…
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8 December
News
Trophy-Sized Rainbow Trout to be Stocked into Lake Siskiyou
Although it’s never been a fishing destination, Lake Siskiyou has always been a place you can fish. More known for…
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Nov- 2018 -30 November
News
Lawsuit Challenges Government’s Failure to Protect Shasta Salamanders From Extinction
*This is a press release submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection…
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25 November
Tahoe
Bear Casually Opens Door and Strolls into Tahoe CHP Facility
Tahoe bears are becoming much more brash in their actions in search of human food, and on top of that,…
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Oct- 2018 -30 October
Wildlife
Bear Incidents Down in Yosemite but Vehicles Still a Big Threat
Over the past 20 years, Yosemite National Park officials have achieved notable results in their work to protect bears by…
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29 October
Tahoe
Watch as Police Officers Free Bear Cub Stuck in a Tahoe Car
Bear encounters continue to be on the rise in Tahoe, with the furry animals learning new tactics to get their…
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26 October
Stories
Meet the Fly that Rules Mono Lake by Living Underwater
Over 100 years ago, writer Mark Twain observed the case of some “incredibly weird” flies in Mono Lake, near Mammoth…
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25 October
News
Bald Eagles Delay Trail Repairs at Lake Natoma
When heavy rains in the winter of 2017Â sent soil and boulders crashing down onto the popular hiking and biking trail…
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25 October
Bay Area
Man Rescued After Great White Shark Attack Near Farallon Islands
A man was rescued by the coast guard on Tuesday after he was attacked by a shark near the Farallon…
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23 October
Bay Area
Officials May Begin Killing Point Reye’s Tule Elk in Favor of Dairy Cows
Point Reyes National Seashore, sitting north of San Francisco on the California coast, is home to a flourishing wildlife population,…
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22 October
Bay Area
Watch as Deer Viciously Brawl on a Front Porch in NorCal
Unwanted guests at the front door from r/bayarea If you came home to find the front porch of your home…
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19 October
News
Officials Forced to Euthanize Young Mountain Lion Who Wandered into NorCal Bakery
“You hear stories of Firefighters called for cats stuck in trees… We got called for a lion stuck in a…
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18 October
Bay Area
Video: Tiger Stalks Man Who Jumps Over Barrier at Oakland Zoo
A man jumped over the wooden barrier that separates the tiger pen from visitors at the Oakland Zoo on Sunday,…
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15 October
Politics
The Controversy Surrounding Tahoe’s Growing Bear Population
The community surrounding Lake Tahoe has a problem. With a growing population of bears moving into the area during summer…
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12 October
North Coast
Coming Home – Chronicles of a Trinity River Steelhead
She was late getting back to the Trinity this year, at least later than a lot of the others. They…
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12 October
Tahoe
Black Bear Spotted “Grocery Shopping” in Tahoe
Now that it’s the fall season and bears in Tahoe are becoming more brazen in their attempts to get their…
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9 October
Outdoors
Studying the Iconic Tunnel Tree – Estimated to be Over 1,000-Years-Old
After the famous Pioneer Cabin Tunnel Tree toppled to the ground, California State Parks, Save the Redwoods League and Humboldt…
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9 October
History
Bulls vs. Bears: Northern California’s Bloody Spectator Sport of the 19th Century
In the 1800’s, when Spanish conquistadors and early gold rush optimists flocked to the newly settled areas of Northern California,…
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5 October
News
Thousands of Wild Horses in Modoc Could Be Sent to the Slaughterhouse
In the northeast corner of Northern California sits the Modoc National Forest, which is home to thousands of wild horses…
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3 October
News
Governor Brown Declares October “California Redwoods Month”
California Governor Jerry Brown has issued a proclamation declaring October 2018 “California Redwoods Month.” The announcement honors California’s state trees,…
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2 October
Bay Area
Walk Through a Beautiful Redwood Forest in Downtown San Francisco
Save the Redwoods League is bringing the beauty of the redwood forest to thousands of commuters at San Francisco’s Montgomery Street…
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1 October
North Coast
Among Giants – The Story of the Activists Trying to Save the Redwood National Forest
How far would you go to stand up for what you believe in? For a group of activists in the…
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Sep- 2018 -28 September
Lassen
Lassen Man Arrested in California’s Largest Ever Poaching Case
After following an anonymous tip, Game Warden Todd Kinnard visited an 80-acre property in the Lassen County town of Standon,…
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27 September
News
California Tahoe Conservancy Receives $1.7 million to Restore Largest Wetland in the Sierra Nevada
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has awarded $1,700,066 to the California Tahoe Conservancy (Conservancy) to help fund the…
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25 September
Butte
Bear Causes Massive Power Outage in Butte County
On Monday morning, a pesky bear took to a 60,000-volt electric pole in Butte County for a little bit of a…
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21 September
News
Bear Uses Force to Break Into Multiple Cars Near Lake Tahoe
Visitors to the Desolation Wilderness returned to their parked cars to see that they had been burglarized. Immediately, they knew…
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18 September
Outdoors
Massive Sturgeon Caught on Shasta Lake
The stories of giant sturgeon in Shasta Lake have been circulating for decades. The giant fish are known to hang…
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12 September
Lassen
After a Decade, Researchers Finally Caught a Red Fox in Lassen. Then They Caught Another One Three Weeks Later.
On March 6th, a 10-pound female red fox walked into a box trap near Manzanita Lake in Lassen Volcanic National…
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11 September
Wildlife
Northern California Coyote Rescued After Spending Two Weeks with Head Stuck in a Jar
We don’t typically see coyotes as a great friend to mankind, but anyone who could see this poor animal with a…
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11 September
Bay Area
Watch: A Superpod of Roughly 1,000 Dolphins Swim Through Monterey Bay
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is known to have some of the coolest underwater creatures on the planet. But an even…
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7 September
North Coast
How Your Selfies Are Killing Northern California’s Seal Puppies
During seal pupping season on the coast of Northern California, baby seals will be basking in the sunshine on the beach…
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