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SEATTLE -- Endangered killer whales have received new habitat protections from the U.S. government.  The National Marine Fisheries Service on Friday finalized rules to expand the Southern Resident orca’s critical habitat from the Canadian border down to Point Sur, California, adding 15,910 square miles (41,207 square kilometers) of foraging areas, river mouths and migratory pathways.  While the Southern Resident orcas spend much of the summer in the Puget Sound and Salish Sea, which have been protected as critical habitat since 2006, they travel along the West Coast during the winter and ...

For Immediate Release, June 1, 2021 Contact: Salmon Fishery Plan Change Proposed to Protect Endangered Orcas Fishing in Pacific Northwest Would Be Limited if Salmon Population Drops SEATTLE— Federal fisheries managers proposed an amendment to the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan today to ensure critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales don’t starve. The proposal would limit non-tribal commercial Chinook salmon fishing in years where the estimated population falls below 966,000 salmon so that the orcas can still get enough to eat. The amendm...

Print A section of California’s scenic Highway 1 near Big Sur that collapsed during a winter storm has reopened, just in time for Memorial Day travel. The highway has been closed since Jan. 28, when heavy rain unleashed torrents of mud and debris left over from a wildfire, washing a 150-foot chunk of roadway into the sea. The slide occurred about two miles south of Big Sur’s Esalen Institute, blocking northbound coastal travelers from such Central Coast sites as Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Nepenthe restaurant and Big Sur Campground & Cabins. McWay Falls drops over an 80-foot cliff at...

The best free things to do in California Lonely Planet Editors 15 March 2021 Sprawling California may be that state that gave us the Gold Rush and home to some of the most expensive cities in the United States, but you don't have to blow your vacation budget to visit. Some of the best sites in California are free to experience, from the towering redwoods of NorCal to the surf breaks of SoCal and dozens of wineries, museums, gardens, and cultural touchstones in between. Whether you're looking for stunning state parks or museums that cover subjects from the avant garde to cryptozoology...

The foghorn at Pillar Point Harbor likely will remain a fixture of Coastside life following an outpouring of support in recent days. In just the last week, the U.S. Coast Guard regional office received dozens of emails from locals defending the foghorn and its sounding off every 10 seconds. The regular tones have drawn ire from locals before. And, recently, a new complaint prompted the Coast Guard to solicit feedback from the community about whether changes to the foghorn were needed. Though the U.S. Coast Guard will continue to collect responses through January 2021, the feedback so far does...