Dana Point is home to the world’s first and longest-running annual whale festival. The festival is the city’s signature event.

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/19/gray-whale-migration-is-centerpiece-to-dana-points-48th-annual-festival-of-whales/

Dana Point is home to the world’s first and longest-running annual whale festival. The festival is the city’s signature event.

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/19/gray-whale-migration-is-centerpiece-to-dana-points-48th-annual-festival-of-whales/

“It depends on what the bear’s doing,” Bosell said. “Typically, we should always try to scare the bear out of the area so he has that negative influence coming into urban environments. When people just go into their house and shut the door, they’re basically telling the bear he can have the territory. The bears are learning that behavior, they’re like, ‘People always run away so I can just do whatever I want.’ So we really need to stand up and scare them out of the area.”

https://signalscv.com/2019/02/nature-center-gives-presentation-on-urban-bears/

Capt. Patrick Foy of the Department of Fish and Wildlife describes how investigators discovered that a Lassen County man had allegedly killed more than 100 birds of prey

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article226275295.html

Firefighters and wildlife officials teamed up to rescue a young mountain lion that became stuck in a tree in Hesperia on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

https://ktla.com/2019/02/16/firefighters-fish-wildlife-officials-rescue-very-large-car-from-tree-in-hesperia/

If you’ve driven Highway 1 near San Simeon in the past few years, chances are you’ve noticed the extraordinary northern elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas Beach.

https://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-seals-20190215-story.html

Residents urged to help change coyote behavior by ‘hazing’ in draft urban wildlife management report.

http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/neighborhood-bear-sightings-plummet-but-coyotes-remain-urban-threat/#.XGYwW5-IbqA

"This thing ... it’s just looking at us. I could have pet the dang thing [it was so close]," Ishol, who estimated the big cat was even taller than his 5-foot-8 frame, told Fox News. "We both reacted. I went out to the door and my wife went to the opposite side of the garage, where it's locked."

https://www.foxnews.com/science/california-man-finds-mountain-lion-hiding-behind-washing-machine-we-could-have-died

This winter, in these Santa Lucia Mountains, our local bears (Ursus americanus) haven’t been very sleepy.

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/community/cambrian/cambrian-opinion/article226161980.html

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mountain-lion-shot-20190212-story.html