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

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife supported a wide array of activities in 2025 to help reduce and address environmental impacts associated with cannabis cultivation in California—including awarding millions of dollars in grants, investigating and documenting hundreds of environmental violations, and making hundreds of compliance visits to cannabis cultivation sites.

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

The February CDFW Calendar of Events is now available.

The Tahoe Interagency Bear Team (TIBT) is a collective of bear experts across federal, state and local agencies who study and understand bears and have devoted much of their professional lives to ensure the health and well-being of the Lake Tahoe Basin’s black bears.