A resident shot and killed a mountain lion attacking their neighbor’s dog in a California neighborhood, officials said. The dog was in the cougar’s jaws as the neighbor fired and didn’t survive the attack, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson told McClatchy News in a phone interview Tuesday, Jan. 14.

A mountain lion was attacking a dog at a residence in Downieville early in the morning on Monday when a neighbor shot and killed it, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Two other mountain lions were nearby during the attack,

According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, more than 500,000 yearling-sized steelhead trout will be released into the waters of the Sacramento River, the Feather River, and the

As wildfire ravages areas of Southern California and continues to pose a risk across the state amid human-caused climate change, the California Department of Fish and

Per the Daily Kos, Steve Gonzalez from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has a call to action for the public: "The California Natural Resources Agency and its partners call upon everyone working and recreating in waters of the state to clean ...

"Wildlife is incredibly resilient," a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said, noting that "many species adapted to endure it."

California has by law acknowledged beavers, nature's preeminent water and environmental engineers, as partners in environmental restoration.

That’s unacceptable by all means, we all want to catch salmon and tons of commercial guys are just taking the hit.”

All the way from Altadena to Huntington Beach, the first wave of wildlife refugees are finding sanctuary from the Eaton fire in the open arms, and pens, of Huntington Beach's Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center.

In response to a 2012 petition by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Clear Lake hitch — a large minnow found only in Northern California’s Clear Lake and its tributaries — as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

A commercial fisherman was caught hiding over 2,000 pounds of fish behind a false wall in his trawling vessel, California wildlife officers said. California Department of Fish and Wildlife on ...

The sole population of Southern California steelhead in the coastal range has survived flames and drought but finds itself facing another threat.