California

  • Livestock Grazing at Point Reyes National Seashore Must Go

    George Wuerthner

      Point Reyes National Seashore, a national park unit, is one of the most iconic sections of the California coast. Lying just north of San Francisco, Point Reyes is a dynamic slice of the California landmass moving northwards along the San Andres Fault relative to the mainland.  The National Seashore includes isolated beaches, cliffs, flowery…

  • Threatened spotted owl in decline due to barred owl

    Ralph Maughan

    Northern spotted owl declines about 4% a year- Throughout its range in the United States, the northern spotted owl has declined at nearly 4% a year from 1985 to 2013, according to a paper published in the Condor. The findings came from eleven study areas in northern California, Oregon and Washington. The owl also lives…

  • Despite the big Western drought, cattle continue to take majority of West’s water

    Ralph Maughan

    Biggest water user is most definitely not the cities of the West- When we look at biggest use of water in the Western United States, livestock, meaning cattle, stands alone. It’s February 2015 and most of the West remains locked in a great drought. It covers all of the West except Montana, Wyoming and about…

  • California to stop kill-fests of wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    California Fish and Game Commission votes 4-1 to stop prizes for killing- VAN NUYS, Calif. The current plans for a killing contest of non-game wildlife plus wolves, a “predator derby,” set for Salmon, Idaho might have been the key to lock the door to such things in California. The effort to renew this would-be annual contest…

  • A Tentative List of Potential National Monuments

    George Wuerthner

    President Obama could do a lot here- Here are my suggestions for new national monuments which Obama could designate. I have visited every site I recommend here, so I’m personally familiar with the areas. I have tried to put together a list that I think deserve protection, but also have some substantial political momentum in…

  • OR-7 and mate have pups

    Ralph Maughan

    Far wandering wolf and mate have first Oregon Cascade pups in over 70 years- There was joy among wolf conservationists this spring when famous wolf OR-7 was found to be in company of a female wolf after his years of wandering over a thousand miles from his NE Oregon birthplace and then probably thousands more around the…

  • Don’t let drought or other severe weather tempt you to feed wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    Feeding often makes things worse, especially when done half-heartedly- Expect predators to show up– Perhaps millions of Americans feed the birds, squirrels, feral cats, much larger animals too, such as deer. All animals are interested in food and as a population they obviously know how to find it, or they would not exist. They probably…

  • Wolf OR-7 returns to Oregon (permanently?)

    Ralph Maughan

    Luckless wolf that went to California is back in Oregon- The world’s currently most famous wolf, OR-7, born in NE Oregon, seems to have abandoned California and returned to Oregon. He spent over a year looking for a female wolf, but there are probably no California girl wolves. During his search, he explored a fair…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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