California wildlife officials are now allowing mountain lions to be killed to protect endangered bighorn sheep, changing a ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today that protections for mountain lion populations ranging from ...

SACRAMENTO, California — Chuck Bonham, the longtime director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, is leaving the position to join environmental group The Nature Conservancy in January.

In addition to adding $1 billion of economic value and up to 7,500 jobs for California’s Sacramento Valley, the state's rice fields act as surrogate wetlands for many birds and other wildlife. (Gary ...

The unceremonious end of Robert Everett’s decades-long career as a pioneering wildlife rehabilitator came without warning recently as state investigators appeared suddenly at his San Dimas home. After ...

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The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing north of Los Angeles Is the first bridge in the California Highway System designed and built specifically for wildlife connectivity. August 19, 2025 The world’s ...

In this March 30, 2012 photo, Sandhill cranes fly over the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge near Tulelake, Calif. Cranes are among the so-called "fully protected" species that would lose some ...

Chuck Bonham has helped California confront such environmental challenges as the collapse of salmon and the return of wolves.

A bear is seen on a trail camera sitting in a bathtub at Hopland Research and Extension Center in Hopland, California. (Courtesy Brashares Lab, UC Berkeley) As climate change increases the frequency ...

The yearling bear cub was severely burned in the Carr Fire in California. A black bear cub that was severely burned when a wildfire roared through her habitat in Northern California is receiving a ...