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Video
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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Wildlife
“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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Outdoors
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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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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Wildlife
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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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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Wildlife
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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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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North Coast
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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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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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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Sacramento
Caught on Camera: Cat Takes on Coyote on Northern California Porch
https://www.facebook.com/ed.wahl.73/videos/10214813880242655/ When a coyote approached a porch in North Highlands last week, it probably didn’t expect to encounter a ferocious…
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Wildlife
“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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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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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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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Video
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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Stories
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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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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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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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Wildlife
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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Outdoors
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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Yosemite-Mammoth
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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Wildlife
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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Shasta Cascade
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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Wildlife
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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North Coast
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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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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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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Politics
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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Wildlife
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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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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Wildlife
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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Outdoors
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
Watch this Poor Duck Get Sucked Into the Lake Berryessa Glory Hole
With water running high in Northern California, the Lake Berryessa glory hole overflowed, pumping water into the spillway tunnel that…
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Wildlife
“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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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North Coast
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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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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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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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Yosemite-Mammoth
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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Wildlife
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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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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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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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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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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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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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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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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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Wildlife
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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Outdoors
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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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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Wildlife
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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Tahoe
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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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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Wildlife
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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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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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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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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
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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Wildlife
Symbol of the State: Bringing the Grizzly Bear Back to California
Although the grizzly bear sits front-and-center on the California state flag, the animal hasn’t roamed California in nearly 100 years.…
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Wildlife
The Incredible Recovery of a Bear Cub Severely Burned in the Carr Fire
California wildfires can have devastating effects on humans living near the fires. These fires can also be equally devastating for…
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Destinations
This Northern California Destination Made World’s 100 Greatest Places in 2018 from Time Magazine
Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove is famous for being one of the largest collection of mature trees in the world. The grove’s sequoias…
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Stories
Q&A with Michelle Titus – the Owner of Northern California’s Premiere Fishing Lodge
In a short time, Michelle Titus went from a Bay Area city-dweller to a North Valley, horse wrangling “angletâ€. When she…
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Destinations
9 Family-Friendly Camping Spots in Northern California
The insistent bzzzzzzzz of a mosquito roused me from sleep, but my eyes refused to open in hopes it would…
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Outdoors
Fly Fishing on the Haunted Upper Sacramento River
Thankfully, no invisible or bony hand ever reached out to touch my shoulder on dark evenings while fishing the October…
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History
Explorers Study Ancient Underwater Forests with a Submarine at Fallen Leaf Lake
Mapping out the history of our the outdoors can be a difficult task, one that requires time, money, and maybe…
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Photography
Win Great Fishing Gear with the 2018 California Trout Photo Contest
The 2018 California Trout Photo Contest is now accepting submissions July 15 through August 31st! Share your best photos of California’s…
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Wildlife
Rare White Raccoon Spotted at Lake Merritt
Lake Merritt is a beautiful urban lake in Oakland, California, and a new photo has emerged that shows it’s also…
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Wildlife
Firefighters Rescue Baby Deer During the Creek Fire
As fires swept through Shasta County during the Creek Fire, firefighters rushed to save homes, evacuate nearby residents and contain…
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Lassen
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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Wildlife
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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History
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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Video
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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News
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
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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Destinations
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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Wildlife
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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