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2022-2024 News Releases

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A young girl looks across the evening landscape through a pair of binoculars.

Back by popular demand, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Nature Bowl 2022: Family Challenge is underway and ready for Californians to enjoy.

Categories:   Scientific Study, Wildlife
Landscape of Martis Meadow on a sunny day, with trees and snow-capped mountains in the distance

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has selected 23 ecosystem restoration and protection projects to fund under its Proposition 1 Watershed Restoration Grant and Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Grant Program. The awards total $26 million.

Categories:   Grants, Habitat Restoration, Lands

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Verano está aquí y el número de visitantes está aumentando en la cuenca del Lago Tahoe (Lake Tahoe). Esto trae una mayor oportunidad de encontrarse con una familia de osos, junto con más comida humana y fuentes de basurero en la cuenca del Lake Tahoe.

Categories:   Bears

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Summer is here at Lake Tahoe and that means more visitors recreating in bear habitat, which increases the chance of encountering a bear – or a family of bears. Increased visitation also brings more temptations for bears to discover human food and garbage sources.

Categories:   Bears, Human Wildlife Conflict
Outdoor raceways at Black Rock Hatchery on a cloudy day, with stocking trucks in the background and netting overhead.

Two California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) trout hatcheries in the Eastern Sierra are continuing to fight an outbreak of Lactococcus petauri, a naturally occurring bacteria that sickens fish. The current outbreak was first detected in April 2022.

Categories:   Fisheries, Fishing, Hatcheries, Trout, Wildlife Health

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