16+ hour, 15+ min ago   (249+ words) There is a week every fall when the North Grove at Calaveras Big Trees stops being a sequoia park and becomes a color show, and the people who live nearby guard that week carefully. The Highway 4 park near Arnold is…...

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, 5+ hour ago   (228+ words) Some of California’s rarest coastal habitat is losing ground to an invader from Europe, and the people fighting back could use more hands. The Redwood Parks Conservancy, working with the North Coast Redwoods District of California State Parks, is recruiting…...

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…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (209+ words) Campfires Are Back in the Plumas National Forest After Last Week’s Rain activenorcal.com Last week's surprise soaking bought campers in the Plumas National Forest something rare for early September: permission to build a campfire again The forest dropped from…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (184+ words) Labor Day weekend is the last big send-off of summer, and the people who run California’s parks want everyone to make it home from this one. Ahead of the Monday holiday, California State Parks issued its annual reminder for visitors…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (226+ words) Active NorCal The snow has melted off Mt Shasta's main climbing routes, and the people who pull injured hikers off the mountain want everyone to understand what that means before heading up The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team…...

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…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (187+ words) One of Northern California’s oldest cattle ranches is about to become one of its newest playgrounds. The ranch sits in the Klamath Mountains about nine miles east of Callahan in Scott Valley, with eight miles of the East Fork Scott…...