Tag: Wildlife
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A raccoon questioned in connection with an overnight cooler breach denied responsibility Monday, maintaining that the container was already “structurally available” when it arrived at Campsite 38.
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The wolverine has a branding problem. Its name has been assigned to a comic-book character, sports teams, armored vehicles, knives, boots, and at least one type of person who owns too much tactical equipment.
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A beaver working without an engineering consultant, procurement schedule, traffic-control plan, or visible public-hearing process completed a functioning water-control structure this week approximately six months…
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Something is happening in your yard at 2:13 every morning. The garbage lid is crooked. The bird feeder is empty. One tomato has been bitten once and then abandoned in a way that feels disrespectful.
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A gray squirrel that has spent three summers soliciting snacks from campers closed Tuesday on a small parcel near the amphitheater after converting what county officials described as “an unusually liquid peanut…
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The hellbender is a giant salamander that lives underneath rocks in clean rivers. That sentence should be enough.
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A coyote seen crossing a suburban bike path Wednesday issued a correction after neighborhood social-media users spent nearly two hours attempting to identify what they believed was a thin off-leash dog.
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A bear canister is an expensive plastic or composite cylinder you carry into the backcountry so a bear cannot eat your tortillas.
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A white-tailed deer brought evening traffic to a complete stop Tuesday after entering County Road 8 and appearing to begin a lengthy internal review of every possible direction it could take.
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A yellow-bellied marmot left a local outdoor retailer Saturday with nearly $900 in technical equipment intended to improve its performance at sitting on rocks, climbing short distances, eating vegetation, and sleeping…