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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has published a document intended to assist CDFW staff, project proponents and others in understanding where and when four bumble bee species that are candidates for listing under the California Endangered Species Act may be present on the landscape and provide examples of measures that may help avoid or minimize impacts to them.

Out of a collaboration between conservation advocates and the solar energy industry, the California Fish and Game Commission at its August 12-13 meeting adopted regulations that allow qualifying solar projects to move forward while also protecting the California Endangered Species Act candidate species western spadefoot frog.

CDFW biologists announce the first capture and collar of a Sierra Nevada Red Fox in the southern Sierra.

CDFW recently completed helicopter capture operations resulting in the satellite collaring of five gray wolves in northern California.

In a move to protect red abalone populations that have suffered drastic population decline, the California Fish and Game Commission at its Dec. 10-11 meeting extended the red abalone recreational fishery closure 10 years. The Commission also approved listing Bear Lake buckwheat as an endangered species under the California Endangered Species Act and received the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s status review report for mountain lion in the central coast and southern parts of California.