California approves $60 million for 27 wildlife and conservation projects, including salmon recovery and new freeway crossings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep stand among grass and boulders in California. The wild sheep are one of the rarest large mammals in ...

California wildlife officers spotted a woman attempting to take abalones, rare mollusks protected by state laws, during a park patrol The woman produced two illegally taken abalone during an ...

Wild gray wolves have killed dozens of livestock in the Sierra Nevada mountains in recent months, prompting California wildlife officials to take the extreme action of euthanizing several of the ...

February 28, 2026 - Wildlife areas, ecological reserves and other properties may be closed due to wildfires, flooding or ...

A Republican assemblymember is pushing back against a proposal to explore bringing grizzly bears back to California, arguing ...

Wildlife officials have announced that they killed four of California's endangered gray wolves, following their rampant attacks on cattle across the Sierra Valley north of Lake Tahoe. This marks the ...

Wildlife managers are now tracking five more gray wolves in Northern California with satellite tracking collars. The operation to fit the animals with the collars happened in mid-January, according to ...

State wildlife officials estimated hundreds of mountain lions live in the proposed areas. The mountain lions face threats that include habitat loss and fragmentation, rodenticide poisoning and vehicle ...