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Mule deer buck.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) invites nonprofit organizations to help wildlife by auctioning big game hunting license tags for the 2025-26 hunt season.

Categories:   Bears, Big Game, Deer, Habitat Restoration, Hunting, Scientific Study
Photo shows cannabis plant

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced Sept. 11, 2024, the selection of a project that will assist more than 200 Mendocino County cannabis cultivators meet requirements to transition from provisional to annual licensure.

Categories:   Cannabis, Environment
A high Sierra lake surrounded by granite cliffs.

Sept. 7 is California Biodiversity Day, an annual event marking the anniversary of the launch of the California Biodiversity Initiative in 2018. California is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world and is one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots — areas containing exceptional concentrations of plant and animal species found nowhere else on the planet.

Categories:   Education, Environment, Fisheries, Marine, Outreach, Plants, Scientific Study, Species
Several mourning doves perch in bare tree limbs.

With select fields plowed, planted, mowed or otherwise primed, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is prepared to welcome dove hunters to many of its wildlife areas for the Sept. 1 season opener.

Categories:   Upland Game
A panoramic, sweeping view of the mouth of the Klamath River where it enters the Pacific Ocean.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has released the “Klamath River Anadromous Fishery Reintroduction and Restoration Monitoring Plan,” a 60-page blueprint to guide the reintroduction and monitoring of Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead and Pacific lamprey in a newly undammed Klamath River.

Categories:   Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Hatcheries, Klamath Basin, Salmon, Scientific Study, Species

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