OJAI, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for California’s Mount Pinos sooty grouse.

The signs of changing seasons throughout Santa Cruz County are subtle. We do not have blazing autumn forests or sudden blizzards to mark time. Instead, the Monterey Bay tells its own story through ...

Sooty and Sweep want to be pirates and, with a lick of paint and a new mast, the SS Sooty is ready to sail. Soo has lost her favourite necklace. Sooty and Sweep want to cheer her up so they decide to ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) took a closer look at the western bird known as the “blue grouse” and reclassified it into two separate species: the sooty grouse and the dusky grouse ...