Conservationists are celebrating after a North American river otter was sighted recently along the San Mateo coast for the first time in more than 100 years. The river otter species Lontra canadensis once ranged along the west coast of North America,…
A river otter was captured by a trail camera at Cloverdale Ranch Open Space Preserve in recent months, marking the first sighting in over 100 years. It was a river otter. Spanning over 6,700 acres at a former farm in Pescadero near…
A 436-acre stretch of wildland east of Napa Valley will never see a house built on it, after the Land Trust of Napa County closed on the former Coppin property on October 15 using a $1 million grant from the state Wildlife…
As coastsidebuzz.com reported, Hickman said river otters haven’t been known to occur on the San Mateo Coast since the 1800s, when the 19th-century fur trade nearly wiped them out. The Mercury News notes that river otter populations statewide declined through…
A growing beaver population in the South Bay may become a problem for efforts to increase salmon in the area. Robert Handa reports. The South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition is keeping a hopeful eye on the Guadalupe River in San…
FILE: This remote camera image from the U.S. Forest Service on June 29, 2017, shows a female gray wolf and two pups born in Lassen National Forest. California had a boom of gray wolf pups this year. In 2026, the state’s gray wolves had…
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