17+ hour, 15+ min ago   (261+ words) activenorcal.com 1533:063017:86F:0000::2E[135:0095]G[008:0x0006] President Trump's September 4 executive order asking federal officials to consider stripping Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves landed hard in Northern California, where 13 packs now roam and ranchers in Siskiyou, Sierra, and Plumas counties have spent…...

17+ hour, 38+ min ago   (272+ words) The Lucas Fire has nearly quadrupled since Friday morning, pushing past 4,000 acres in the hills above Upper Lake and prompting the Lake County sheriff to declare a local emergency. Cal Fire put the blaze at 4,008 acres and 15 percent contained late…...

17+ hour, 28+ min ago   (267+ words) A dog went over the side of a boat near Bailey Cove on Shasta Lake Friday morning, and the man who jumped in after it never came back up. The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office identified him as Geordan White, 60, of…...

17+ hour, 43+ min ago   (205+ words) California’s Biggest Volunteer Day Hits the Mendocino Coast Next Saturday Active NorCal MendoParks and California State Parks are again hosting the coast's share of California Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, Sept 19, from 9 a.m It is the 42nd year of the…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (245+ words) Some of the best salmon habitat in California isn’t a wild river at all. It’s a rice field outside Sacramento in the dead of winter. Research from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences has shown that when Central Valley…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (228+ words) Some of California’s rarest coastal habitat is losing ground to an invader from Europe, and the people fighting back could use more hands. The Redwood Parks Conservancy, working with the North Coast Redwoods District of California State Parks, is recruiting…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (158+ words) The main western artery into Yosemite is carrying traffic again. Highway 140 reopened over the weekend after the Colorado Fire forced days of closures along the Merced River canyon, restoring the most direct route into Yosemite Valley just as holiday crowds…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (182+ words) Gray Wolf Confirmed in Lake County as California’s Packs Push South and West activenorcal.com California's gray wolves just crossed a line that wildlife advocates have waited decades to see them cross: Interstate 5 Nearly all of California's wolf recovery since…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (335+ words) Active NorCal A quiet mountain lake 25 miles south of Weed became the scene of one of the strangest crimes in Forest Service history this summer, and a new national magazine feature argues it might not be the last The Atlantic…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (240+ words) Active NorCal Nine years after a spillway crisis sent nearly 200,000 people fleeing downstream, the torn up hillside at Oroville Dam is finally going green The Department of Water Resources revegetation project now spans roughly 70 acres around the dam's main and…...