California wildlife officials have confirmed the state's first case of COVID-19 in a wild animal, detected in a mule deer killed in 2021 in El Dorado County. The infected deer was killed by a hunter ...

Thousands of people signed a petition opposing a plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to curb the mule deer population that's wreaking havoc on a California island's ecosystem. "Catalina’s ...

Officials charged with protecting a California island are refusing to abandon a plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to eliminate its invasive mule deer, despite a petition that's attracted ...

Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

California officials have approved a highly contested environmental restoration plan to eradicate Catalina Island’s invasive mule deer population using sharpshooters, a conservation nonprofit ...

AVALON, Calif. — A plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to kill nearly 2,000 invasive mule deer roaming the mountains of Santa Catalina Island has ignited a storm of protest among residents of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plan to restore Catalina Island’s ecosystem by killing roughly 2,000 nonnative deer has been approved by state wildlife ...

The number of mule deer, coyote and other wildlife getting hit by vehicles on California’s roadways is falling, signaling a decline in some key animal populations in the state, according to an annual ...

A nonprofit that manages much of Catalina Island is seeking to cull some 2,000 mule deer. The Catalina Island Conservancy argues that the invasive species threatens the local ecosystem. The plan is to ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been detected for the first time in free-ranging California wildlife. One hunter-harvested mule deer, a buck from El Dorado ...

Fewer coyote, mule deer and other wildlife are getting hit by vehicles on California’s roadways. While that initially sounds good, it could also signal a decline in some key animal populations in the ...