February 2024
Planning a Romantic Walk on the Beach This Valentine’s Day? Watch Out for Nesting Western Snowy Plovers!
December 2023
Commercial Dungeness Crab Season to Open Locally on January 5
November 2023
NEW BIRD SIGHTING! Spotted for the First Time in Humboldt, a Purple Gallinule Has Been Hanging Around the Arcata Marsh
MORE PREY-GO-NEESH! Yurok Tribe to Release Three More of Those Big Bad California Condors Into the Skies Soon
October 2023
North Coast Condor Treated for Lead Poisoning by Sequoia Park Zoo
MOUNTAIN LIONS, OH MY! A Human-Wildlife Conflict Biologist from the CDFW Reminds of How to Prevent Unwanted Cougar Trouble
Mountain Lion Spotted Near Local Cemetery
September 2023
Should the Local Population of Pacific Fishers Be Listed Under the Endangered Species Act? The Fish and Wildlife Service is Seeking Feedback From Informed People
Local Animal Rescue Group Sees Influx of Sea Lions Suffering From Potentially Fatal Bacteria Infection
(PHOTOS) This Black Bear Looks Upset About Not Getting Invited to the Medieval Festival of Courage
July 2023
A Bear Got Out to Tuluwat Island, Messed Up a Plum Tree and Dumped Over a Trash Can Full of Chicken Feed
June 2023
Yurok Tribe Acquires Badass, LIDAR-Equipped, Condor-Wing-Bedecked Airplane for Scientific Research and Land Management Purposes
SEA OTTERS! Let’s Bring ‘Em Back! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is Going to Be Holding a Series of Open House Meetings to This End, Including One in Arcata, Soon
U.S. Fish and Wildlife to Reconsider Whether West Coast Fishers Warrant Endangered Species Act Protection
May 2023
BOOBY SIGHTING! Red-Footed Booby, Usually Found in Tropical Seas, Spotted Near Trinidad
BEAR CUBS: The Zoo Now Has Two New, ‘Non-Releasable’ Bear Cubs Gracing the New Bear Habitat
December 2022
(VIDEO) Removal of Obsolete Concrete Dam on South Fork Eel Tributary Opens Nine Miles of Wild Fish Habitat
November 2022
Elk Poachers Leave Meat-Encased Lead Fragments in Easy Reach of Condors, Yurok Tribe Says
MORE CONDORS! The Yurok Tribe and Its Partners are Gonna Try to Put Some More Birds in the Sky Tomorrow Morning
October 2022
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: This Incredibly Gross and Yet Totally Amazing Creature Lives Its Life Hooked Onto Whales and Eats Dead Whale Skin All Day
September 2022
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: Thatcher Ants Rule Everything Around Me
Adorable Ringtail Who Fell Down a Chimney in Hoopa Released Back to Nature by the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center
Uh, Check Out This Goofy Photo of One of the Sequoia Park Zoo’s Greater Rheas (And Also Note the Zoo Foundation Has a New Executive Director)!
Klamath River Fish Kill Caused by Storm and Wildfire Activity, Says Forest Service
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: It’s Migratory Shorebird Season!
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: Elks in Rut!
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: Egrets? I’ve Had a Few
July 2022
Return of the Sea Otters? Fish & Wildlife Study Finds Reintroduction of the Species Is Feasible on West Coast
BETTER KNOW A PREY-GO-NEESH: Up Close and Personal With Your New Condor Neighbors
Fourth and Final Condor to Be Released on North Coast Tuesday Morning
June 2022
(VIDEO) An Orca Pod Cruised Humboldt Bay on This Blessed Day
May 2022
(UPDATE) A Third Condor Will Be Released Into North Coast Skies on WEDNESDAY Morning
(VIDEO) Humboldt Redwoods State Park Naturalist ‘Griff’ Talks Reintroduction of the California Condor and Its Importance to Local Tribes
Minimizing Wildlife Conflict: A Conversation With Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/Bird Ally X Director Monte Merrick
(WATCH) Here is the Moment Two Condors Took Flight Above Northern California For the First Time in Over a Hundred Years
The First Two Condors to Fly Over Northern California in a Century Will Be Released Tuesday Morning and You Can Livestream It
April 2022
Couple Loads Baby Seal They Found Under Samoa Bridge Into Their Car in an Aquarium
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: Those Gray Whales are Hanging out in Humboldt Right Now, and We Should Talk About Them
March 2022
(VIDEO) WHALE CALL! Watch a Humongous Beast of the Deep Blow its Blowhole at Local Kayakers
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: Consider the Turkey Vulture
(AUDIO) The Yurok Tribe Will Reintroduce Four Young Condors Into Their Ancestral Skies This Spring
January 2022
(VIDEO) Massive Herd of Roosevelt Elk Crosses Snowy Ridge, Then Changes Its Collective Mind, Heads Back
November 2021
Bureau of Reclamation Awards Additional $2.7 Million to Improve Recovery of Threatened Coho Salmon in the Klamath River Basin
October 2021
(PHOTO) Dead Humpback Whale Found on Humboldt Beach
Remember Those Colorful Arty Otters? Those Raised $300,000 For Otter Research, Believe It Or Not
September 2021
Dead Gray Whale Washes Up on Samoa Beach
August 2021
(VIDEO) Mountain Lion Spotted Thursday Morning in Eureka
July 2021
DON’T FEED ‘EM: Disease Outbreak Hits California’s Deer Population
Headed to the Beach for the Fourth of July? Please Respect the Snowy Plover Nesting Grounds!
June 2021
(VIDEO) COUGAR ALERT: Arcata Mountain Biker Has Close Encounter of the Furred Kind