Watch Out for Wandering Wildlife in the Roadways

by Kimberly Wear on September 18, 2019 at 10:57AM

Construction of Wildlife Undercrossings Scheduled near PlacervilleThe Camino Safety Project east of Placerville in El Dorado County will go to construction next year and will include a 12-foot by 12-foot box culvert as a wildlife undercrossing, eight-foot wildlife fence, and four wildlife escape ramps for animals that may become trapped in the right-of-way. Camera monitoring and wildlife tracking show the project on U.S. Highway 50 will benefit deer, coyotes, foxes, and other species.

Rollback of Endangered Species' Protections Raising Fears

by Kimberly Wear on August 13, 2019 at 2:53PM

determination solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial information regarding a species’ status.” The revisions to the regulations clarify that the standards for delisting and reclassification of a species consider the same five statutory factors as the listing of a species in the first place.

North Coast Night Lights: Unexpected Magic: Rabbit Stargazer

by David Wilson on August 7, 2019 at 10:46AM

The rabbit sat by my camera for almost six minutes while the camera took pictures. Each photograph was a 30-second exposure, and the rabbit appeared in eleven of them, mostly sitting and looking this way and that in the starry night.

North Coast Night Lights: A Humboldt Commute

by David Wilson on July 31, 2019 at 3:36PM

People don’t feel the stillness from inside their vehicles, slicing through the night like darts of light. But at times for me there were no cars at all for minutes at a stretch, and the still night would settle about me. The grasses rustled softly in the breeze.

Barney the Old Town Horse Has Died

by Kimberly Wear on July 30, 2019 at 10:38AM

Blue Ox Historic Village announced on its Facebook page last night that “Barney,” the Old Town Carriage Co. draft horse, died unexpectedly over the weekend. According to the short post, Barney had been treated for a variety of ailments of late but “it appears that there was some type of neurological issue that came on suddenly.”

Oh, Deer!

by Kimberly Wear on July 8, 2019 at 10:20AM

Benbow Eaglet Faces Close Call With Fire

by Kym Kemp on July 5, 2019 at 10:05PM

oth parents were absent from the valley … .” Rose, who frequently photographs the eagle family, said during that the firefight, as the helicopter was buzzing nearby, the eaglet “was sitting up tall but tense and frozen in the nest … .”

UPDATED: Orcas Spotted in Humboldt Bay (With Video)

by Kimberly Wear on May 31, 2019 at 10:00AM

The Otters are Coming! The Otters are Coming!

by Iridian Casarez on May 29, 2019 at 10:53AM

A shipment of 100 otter sculptures is heading toward the North Coast, according to Jeff Black, who created the North Coast Otter Public Arts Initiative. All the way from Jolly Roger Sculptures in the Philippines, the arrival of the 3-foot-tall sculptures standing ready for an artist's touch will kick off a public art initiative scheduled for next summer.

Reward Offered in Poaching of Roosevelt Elk

by Kimberly Wear on May 21, 2019 at 5:39PM

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Californians Turn in Poachers and Polluters Program (CalTIP) is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the poacher responsible for killing four Roosevelt elk in Humboldt County last December. On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, CDFW wildlife officers responded to a poaching report in the Maple Creek area, southeast of Blue Lake.