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    • September 14, 2022
    A lone mule deer buck stands amid trees.

    The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) general deer season is set to open in many parts of the state Saturday, Sept. 17. Deer season is already underway in California’s A and B4 zones along the coast.

    Categories: Big Game, Scientific Study, Wildlife
    • September 6, 2022
    Pronghorn antelope captured on trail cameras in northern California.

    California’s pronghorn antelope hunters are wrapping up their short seasons as California’s elk hunters are gearing up for theirs. The two groups of big game hunters are among the most tenacious – if not the luckiest – in California.

    Categories: Big Game, Fire, Hunting, Scientific Study, Wildlife
    • September 2, 2022
    Close-up of an Amargosa vole

    Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole.

    Categories: Habitat Restoration, Rare Species, Scientific Study, Species, Wildlife
    • July 12, 2022
    Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk in traditional, tribal attire is jointed by CDFW, USFWS, and NOAA Fisheries representatives on the shores of the McCloud River to return winter-run Chinook salmon eggs to the river.

    The Winnemem Wintu Tribe, CDFW, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) celebrated the return of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon eggs to the McCloud River upstream of Shasta Reservoir for the first time since the construction of the Shasta Dam in the 1940s.

    Categories: Drought, Fisheries, Salmon, Scientific Study
    • June 24, 2022
    Male and female mallard ducks

    CDFW has completed its 2022 waterfowl breeding population survey. The resulting data indicate the overall number of breeding ducks has decreased by 19 percent, including mallards that are the most abundant duck in the survey.

    Categories: Drought, Scientific Study, Species, Waterfowl, Wildlife