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In a recent hike through the scenic trails, avid outdoorsman David Kramer stumbled upon a mysterious creature that has left experts puzzled.

An invasion by barred owls, a more aggressive and adaptable raptor, has prompted a federal plan to ease the restrictions against killing them.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife is proposing a new management strategy, easing the onerous permit process that’s currently required to kill barred owls.

He catches nothing ‘almost always’, but James Graham says that if you try, and keep on trying, the fish will be there somewhere.

Jump to navigation By  08/04/2021 A federal judge denied an injunction against the National Park Service filed by animal rights groups who are suing over the management of tule elk in the Point Reyes National Seashore. After a hearing last week, Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California ruled that the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic did not adequately show that the park is neglecting its duty to prevent the fenced Tomales Point herd from dying of thirst or malnu...

Jump to navigation By  06/16/2021 Plans for a new home have prompted the Inverness Public Utility District to update its rules for new water connections during a drought. If the latest version of regulation 117 is approved, property owners would be allowed to connect to the water system only if they agree to defer landscaping.  The change is one of many that water districts are making these days as suppliers grapple with how best to conserve water amid a historic drought. Banning new ...

The goal of the cull program is to better manage existing tule elk herds in an area where some animals died from malnourishment during a drought last year. A tule elk cow at Tomales Point, Point Reyes National Seashore, California. (By © Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link) (CN) — On Earth Day, the California Coastal Commission conditionally approved a general management plan for a 28,700-acre federally owned park in the San Francisco Bay Area — a plan vehemently opposed by conservationi...