The Center for Biological Diversity and allies today notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of their intent to sue over the agency’s denial of Endangered Species Act protections for fishers in northern California and southwestern Oregon. Fishers are relatives of martens and wolverines and are dependent on mature and old-growth forests for their survival.

The California Wildlife Coexistence Act, AB 1135 authored by Senator Blakespear was also signed into law. This bill restores the Wildlife Coexistence Program of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife that will focus on conserving and protecting biodiversity and natural resources in the state.

The Six Rivers National Forest is back with another logging proposal in the Eel River Late-Successional Reserve (LSR), and this time it wants to skip full public review. The Bucktail Vegetation Management Project covers a 14,400-acre planning area on the Mad River Ranger District, south of Dinsmore between Highway 36 and Van Duzen Road, next to the Mount Lassic Wilderness. These older forests are also in designated Critical Habitat for northern spotted owls

A federal judge has struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log the forested ridges above Lake Siskiyou, one of the region's most popular recreation destinations near the city of Mt. Shasta. In a ruling issued on Wednesday, Judge Dena Coggins of the Eastern District of California vacated a “Biological Opinion” issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, finding the deficiencies in the document to be sufficiently meaningful that the document needed to be thrown out.

A federal judge has struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log the forested ridges above Lake Siskiyou, one of the region's most popular recreation destinations near the city of Mt. Shasta.

The Scott and Shasta Rivers are two of the Klamath Basin's most important salmon strongholds. As flows trickle below minimum standards in the Scott and salmon populations decline below depensation thresholds in the Shasta, the North Coast Water Board is considering another five-year extension of a temporary water-quality program.

The Salmon River Restoration Council hosted its 32nd annual Cooperative Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Dive this summer. Together, volunteers, including EPIC staff, snorkeled and hiked 100 miles to survey the stretches of the Salmon River to assess the population of Spring Chinook Salmon and Summer Run Steelhead.