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Hoopa Valley Tribe Leads Fisher Conservation Effort
The Hoopa Valley Tribe and the fisher (Martes pennant) have coexisted on Hoopa ancestral land for thousands of years...Read More

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View All StoriesPartnership Helps a Small Lizard Stage a Big Comeback
The island night lizard, found only on the Channel Islands off the coast of California, has reached a historic milestone. After 36 years of protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the species has successfully recovered and will be removed from federal protection.Read More

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View All StoriesCalifornia: A hot spot for Rare Species
With more than 300 threatened and endangered species, California has more federally protected animals than any other state, and ranks second to Hawaii in the number of protected plants. A large number of these species are located along densely populated coastal areas, where they are threatened with habitat loss from urbanization. ... Read More

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California Condors: A Recovery Success Story Faces New Challenges
It's not quite noon and it is already a scorcher of a day in southern California. On a remote sandstone cliff near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, Joseph Brandt, a biologist with the U.S. Fish ... Read More
Partnership Stories in California

Leveraging Resources to Recover Tidewater Goby
Biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Ventura and Arcata field offices are partnering with the University of California at Santa Barbara and California State Parks to restore important habitat along the southern and central California coast to benefit the endangered tidewater goby and other species... More »

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- Yreka Field office
- Arcata Field office
- Red Bluff Field office
- Stockton Field office
- Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office
- Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office
- San Francisco Bay-Delta Fish and Wildlife Office
- Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office
- USFWS Pacific Southwest Region
- USFWS Grants
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife