3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (198+ words) The sea lion rolling in the surf at Seacliff State Beach was not playing. It was seizing. KYMA carried an NBC report from Aptos this week on a sharp rise in sick and dying sea lions along the Santa Cruz…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (257+ words) A bat on the ground is not a bat that needs rescuing. Three Humboldt County kids just learned that lesson the hard way, with a round of rabies shots to show for it. Public health officials confirmed three children were…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (247+ words) The best salmon engineers in Northern California worked for free, wore fur and disappeared almost two centuries ago. Now humans are copying their homework, and the results are stunning. Discover Wildlife reported that artificial beaver dams built in the Scott…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (237+ words) A dog walker in the middle of San Francisco got the surprise of a lifetime Saturday night after looking up and spotting a mountain lion perched in a tree in the Panhandle, the narrow strip of green connecting Golden Gate…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (276+ words) Lynnette Bellin has been swimming in Lake Tahoe for more than two decades, and in all that time the scariest wildlife she encountered was a crawdad. That streak ended Sunday morning near Hidden Beach, when a river otter grabbed her…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (282+ words) Tahoe’s Bears Are About to Eat 25,000 Calories a Day, and Your Trash Can Is on the Menu Active NorCal If your Labor Day eating plans feel ambitious, Lake Tahoe's black bears would like a word The basin's bruins are entering…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (182+ words) One of the most controversial wildlife management programs in the West is showing signs it actually works, and Northern California’s old-growth forests are where the evidence is piling up. Separate research released the same week concluded that spotted owls have…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (242+ words) California’s fast-growing wolf population just became the center of a national fight. A coalition of industry groups and nonprofits has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to strip gray wolves of their federal Endangered Species Act protections entirely. The…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (236+ words) Active NorCal Mountain lions have a public relations problem in Northern California Between livestock conflicts and the occasional too-close encounter, the big cats mostly make headlines for the wrong reasons New research suggests they deserve credit for something unexpected: safer…...