Yreka FWO newsletter- Summer/Fall 2019

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Yreka FWO newsletter- Summer/Fall 2019

In this issue published in the Fall of 2019, we feature  articles on forests and wildfire. Learn how different species and habitats adapt to a changing climate resulting in devastating wildfires and crippling drought throughout northern California and the West.

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Yreka Fish and Wildlife Office
The Yreka Fish and Wildlife Office (Yreka FWO) is an Ecological Services Office in Siskiyou County, northern California and located a few miles south of the Oregon border. Our office supports conservation work within the Shasta-Trinity and Klamath National Forests and adjoining private lands...
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Yreka,CA
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The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
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Baileys Crossroads,VA
Adult big horn sheep
The Wildlife Restoration Program provides grant funds to the states and insular areas fish and wildlife agencies for projects to restore, conserve, manage and enhance wild birds and mammals and their habitat. Projects include providing public use and access to wildlife resources, wildlife area...
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ESA status: endangered (Southern Sierra Nevada, June 2020); not listed (Northern California/Southern Oregon, June 2020)

Fishers are medium-sized mammals in the same family as weasels, mink, martens and otters. They have a light brown to black fur coat, with white...

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A gray wolf lays in the the snow-covered grass

ESA status: endangered (February 2022) except Northern Rocky Mtn of ID, MT, WY; eastern 1/3 of OR, WA; north-central UT; threatened (Dec 2014) in MN. 

The gray wolf, being a keystone predator, is an integral component of the...

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