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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.

The Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved $80,450,797 in grants for 23 projects across 16 counties to protect biodiversity, restore wildlife habitat and expand public access to nature. The board met today at the California Natural Resources Agency headquarters in Sacramento.

Following three consecutive years of closure, salmon fishing will return to the Klamath River Basin and Sacramento River for the upcoming summer and fall seasons.

The California red-legged frog, a federally threatened species absent from Yosemite National Park for decades, has made a significant comeback after 10 years of coordinated conservation work.