California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Review of reintroduction as a conservation tool for Pacific salmon in western North America

Abstract Objective Reintroduction of Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. into historically occupied habitat is a widely used management strategy in western North America. Since the last major review, new information on donor populations, fish passage, dam removal, ecological interac...

Landscape Greening Following Unseasonal Precipitation Along a Desert–Alpine Gradient

In seasonally arid systems, where water is a key limiting resource, unseasonal precipitation events may promote landscape greening. Because herbivores track spatial variation in fresh plant growth, dry-season precipitation could be an important catalyst of out-of-season foraging...

A Noninvasive Fecal-DNA Detection Method for Sarcoptic Mange in the San Joaquin Kit Fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)

Endangered San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) living in Bakersfield and Taft, California, have declined due to an ongoing sarcoptic mange epizootic. Population monitoring for signs of sarcoptic mange typically involves camera surveillance in these urban populations, b...

Removing wolves did not reliably prevent domestic animal losses

Abstract Humans usually try to kill wild animals that they perceive as threats. However, many scientific findings have raised doubts that killing solves wildlife damage to property. With scant, low‐quality data, uncertainty persists. We reviewed recent studies of killing gray wol...