A new species of pseudoscorpion has been discovered in talus caves in Yosemite Valley. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/pseudoscorpion.htm
Read More »What Would Changes To The Endangered Species Act Mean For The Valley?
Last week the Trump Administration proposed a set of major changes to the Endangered Species Act. It’s a big issue here in California, where protected species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and in the Sierra have set off new efforts to protect critical habitat. Of course those measures have …
Read More »Surprising species helps Lake Michigan E. coli levels
Enjoying a Lake Michigan beach this summer? Thanks may be in order to an unlikely helper – invasive quagga mussels. New research out of Michigan State University shows Lake Michigan … Click to Continue »
Read More »Rhino pregnancy stirs hope for a nearly extinct species
Victoria, a southern white rhino at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is pregnant. It’s an event of vital importance for a program to bring back her nearly extinct kin, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Lake sturgeon should be endangered species, environmental group says
An environmental group is petitioning the federal government to declare lake sturgeon – a giant, ancient Great Lakes fish – an endangered species. The Center for Biological Diversity is seeking … Click to Continue »
Read More »Orca quandary: Other protected species are eating their food in Puget Sound
Booming populations of seals, sea lions and other marine mammals are eating so much chinook salmon, they may pose a bigger challenge to the survival of hungry local orca whales … Click to Continue »
Read More »New non-native species emerges in Great Lakes after a mostly clean decade
The stew of non-native species known to be swarming in the Great Lakes just got a little thicker. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that a new type of … Click to Continue »
Read More »Endangered species petition for bluefin tuna rejected
Federal fisheries managers rejected a petition to list Pacific bluefin tuna as endangered this week, concluding that the species is stable, despite its historic low numbers. The National Marine Fisheries … Click to Continue »
Read More »Species may be listed as threatened based on climate change projections, court says
Federal authorities may list a species as “threatened” based on climate models that show habitat loss in the coming decades, an appeals court decided Monday. The state of Alaska, oil … Click to Continue »
Read More »Most humpback whale populations removed from US endangered species list
In a triumph for the global movement to save whales from oblivion, the U.S. government on Tuesday removed most of the world’s humpback populations from the federal list of endangered species, with some glaring exceptions on the West Coast. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Long missing frog, turtle species making return to Yosemite
National park teams with San Francisco Zoo & Gardens on project California red-legged frogs and Western pond turtles missing for decades … Click to Continue »
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