“California Biodiversity Day provides an opportunity to get outside, learn more about the remarkable nature around us, and discover how we can protect it and help it thrive,”?said California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot.?“In California, we often celebrate our cultural...
“What we’ve learned is that these charismatic wild felines are incredibly adaptable and can live in just about any part of the state,” said Rachel Roberts, a Senior Environmental Scientist and CDFW’s Statewide Bobcat Coordinator. “They can live in almost any...
Spring 2026 saw reduced precipitation and snowmelt across most of California, yet breeding habitat conditions were rated from average to good. Favorable conditions were largely supported by water carryover from 2025 and a series of January storms that helped counterbalance drier...
The document, Considerations for Conserving Crotch’s Bumble Bee (Bombus crotchii), Franklin’s Bumble Bee (Bombus franklini), Western Bumble Bee(Bombus occidentalis) and Suckley’s Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus suckleyi),provides an overview of life history, seasonal ecology and species-specific information for the four bumble bee species....
More northern spotted owls were observed in sampling in the southern portions of the range. Levels ranged from 13% to 17% in Washington and the Oregon coast to 44% in the Oregon and California Klamath Mountains to 91% on the California...
“Salmon may spawn throughout the summer season, but our results suggest that only a small fraction of those spawning events ultimately produced the juveniles that survived,” said Kohma Arai, who authored the research as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis with...
