Wildlife

Lassen Peak is Sinking and Scientists Don’t Know Why

A paper written by Amy Parker in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research shows that Lassen Peak has been sinking since…

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Secret Northern California Old-Growth Forest Will Be Open to the Public Soon

Save the Redwoods League, celebrating their centennial year as the only nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and stewarding coast redwood…

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Remembering the Devastating Chemical Spill that Killed All the Wildlife on the Upper Sacramento River

It was July 14th, 1991 when a Southern Pacific tank car spilled 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium…

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Watch: NorCal Sheriff Breaks Car Window to Free Trapped Bear

It’s officially bear season in Tahoe, where bears have awakened from their yearly hibernation in search of food. There have…

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Humboldt Zoo Receives $1.7 Million for America’s First “Canopy Skywalk”

At a news conference on Tuesday, the Sequoia Park Zoo announced it has received $1.7 million in funding from three…

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Video: Ornery Deer Crashes into Motorcyclist in Trinity County

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBU39rU-GPg&feature=player_embedded Motorcyclist Loren Turner was riding along the beautiful Highway 3 in Trinity County when she encountered a rare exchange.…

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Yosemite’s Famed Mariposa Grove Reopening to the Public

Following three long years of restoration work on Yosemite’s famed Mariposa Grove, park officials are ready for its grand reopening…

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Gray Wolf Wanders into Sierra Nevada Mountains for the First Time in Over 100 Years

Northern California had not seen a gray wolf since the early-1900’s, not until famed wolf OR-7 traveled over the Oregon…

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Foreign Nationals Convicted in Northern California Plant Poaching Investigation

Three defendants caught in the global succulent poaching scheme happening in Northern California, have each pled guilty to two felonies…

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Lake Oroville Eagles Find New Home Following Spillway Crisis

When the Oroville Dam spillway collapsed in February of 2017, officials had to rush to move electric towers that were…

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Watch as Millions of Butterflies Fly over Lassen Peak During Yearly Migration

If you hiked to the summit of Lassen Peak in the Fall, you were probably one of the lucky visitors to…

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The Heartwarming Story of President JFK Feeding Deer in Lassen Volcanic National Park in his Pajamas

When President John F. Kennedy visited Northern California in 1963, just months before his assassination, he made the rounds to…

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Wild Animal Encounters on Shasta Lake

As much as it seems that Shasta Lake is just a place to hop on a boat and have some…

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Google Cats are Killing Endangered Owls in Northern California

Shoreline Park is a grass-filled 750-acre wildlife and recreation area sitting right in the middle of the technological boom that…

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U.S. Attorney to Crackdown on Illegal Marijuana Grows and Deadly Pesticides in Northern California

With California recently legalizing recreational marijuana use in the state, it was questioned how the federal government would tackle marijuana…

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Three Dead Whales Wash Ashore Northern California Beaches in a Week

A dead whale washed ashore a beach in Northern California earlier this week, making it the third whale to wash…

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NASA Studying the Lava Beds National Monument to Find Life on Mars

When lava flows down the slope of a volcano, it can leave behind an extreme environment ideal for unusual microbial…

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Humboldt Environmentalists Expose “Secret Meetings” Discussing Future of Local Dams

The Friends of Eel River have discovered “secret meetings” were taking place in order on the future of the Potter Valley…

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Man Arrested in Months-Long Redwood Poaching Investigation

While on routine patrol in January, law enforcement rangers from Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) located a redwood poaching…

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Sea Lions Spotted in 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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This Stretch of River Could Determine the Fate of the Shasta Dam

The federal government is fast tracking a plan to raise the Shasta Dam, already the 8th highest dam in the country, by…

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U.S. Army Corps Gives $1 Million to Combat Invasive Species in Lake Tahoe

If you’ve ever entered or exited the Tahoe region, you’ve probably noticed the checkpoints near the lake that probes boats…

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Oldest Male Dolphin in America Dies in Northern California Park

Semo, the oldest male bottlenose dolphin in the United States, died at the age of 54 at Six Flags Discovery…

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A Million Salmon were Released into the Sacramento River and Some People Aren’t Happy About It

  Eight truckloads full of a million juvenile chinook salmon were released into the Sacramento River just north of Sacramento…

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Unprecedented: Record Number of Steelhead Return to Spawn at Coleman Fish Hatchery

How would you describe the record number of 10,000 steelhead that returned to spawn at the Coleman Fish Hatchery during the…

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Lucky Fisherman Catches Giant 57-Pound Striped Bass on the Sacramento River

It was on April 7 around 6:30 pm when Billy Driessen hooked the catch of the lifetime on the Sacramento…

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Northern California’s Shasta Salamanders are Spiraling Towards Extinction

The Center for Biological Diversity notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today of new research revealing that the Shasta salamander in…

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Lesson Learned from a Marin Hiker: Don’t Pick Up a Rattlesnake

It’s unknown what was going through the head of the 79-year-old hiker near Mount Tamalpais in Marin County who decided to…

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There’s a Global Black Market Plant Heist Happening Right Here in Northern California

The Dudleya farinosa is a beautiful succulent that grows on the coastal range of Northern California. And they’re now at the…

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Conservationists are Saving the Redwoods…By Cutting Them Down

The environmentalists who have dedicated their lives battling loggers to protect the ancient redwood tress of Northern California are now…

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The Dangerous Bear Burglars of Lake Tahoe

The above video shows you what appears to be a breaking and entering, by a group of very smart and determined…

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