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California Invasive Species Action Week (CISAW), happening June 7-15, 2025, calls for all Californians to get involved to help prevent the harmful impacts of non-native plants and animals that threaten the Golden State’s natural resources, ecology and economy.

Categories:   Education, Environment, General, Habitat Restoration, Invasive Species, Outreach, Plants, Wildlife
Morro manzanita shrub at Montana de Oro

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking data and public comments on a petition to list Morro manzanita under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).

Categories:   Plants, Rare Species, Species
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Last week, the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) increased the northern pintail bag limit to three for the first time in almost 30 years. While population estimates are sufficient to support more pintail hunting opportunities, depleted population estimates for the recreational barred sand bass fishery called for the Commission to reduce a five-fish bag limit to four. The Commission took these and other actions affecting California’s natural resources at its April 16-17 meeting in Sacramento.

Categories:   Big Game, Deer, FGC, Fisheries, Fishing, General, Hunting, Invasive Species, Marine, Plants, Rare Species, Species, Waterfowl, Wildlife
Plant with white flowers

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking data and public comments on a petition to list Bear Lake buckwheat under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).

Categories:   Plants, Rare Species
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

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