1+ hour, 15+ min ago   (186+ words) More than 130 planned projects at national parks, together worth over $25 million, were quietly rejected by the Interior Department last month, and California parks took some of the biggest hits. The projects were partnership agreements with outside nonprofits and universities, the…...

6+ hour, 8+ 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…...

6+ hour, 36+ 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, 2+ 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…...

5+ day, 19+ 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…...

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, 5+ day ago   (234+ words) Active NorCal California could add as much as 160 billion gallons of water to its supply every year without building a single new dam The secret is running the reservoirs it already owns a little smarter Researchers at the Scripps Institution…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (228+ words) Active NorCal The glowing water that draws paddlers to Tomales Bay on dark summer nights turned deadly over the weekend, when two men in their 30s set out by canoe around midnight and never made it back to camp The pair…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (266+ words) Conservationists are calling it something that has never happened in Yosemite’s history: a piece of the national park handed over to a private developer. The Trump administration is weighing a land swap that would transfer a quarter mile strip inside…...

1+ week, 5+ 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…...