Salmon and trout populations in Santa Cruz’s watersheds, such as the San Lorenzo River, have taken a hit in recent decades.

The journey to McCloud is the perfect prelude to what awaits – a gradual decompression from the modern world. As you travel north on Interstate 5, the landscape transforms from California’s familiar ...

One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten ...

The mussels are infamous for voracious appetites that fuel their rapid growth. Now, state and local water managers are ...

That’s McCloud for you – a tiny alpine hamlet nestled at the base of majestic Mount Shasta that somehow escaped the clutches of time, chain stores, and the general chaos of modern life.

This is a vast region was once a safe haven for salmon, nature’s perfect rest stop. Its marshlands offered endless places to ...

That puts an onus on us as guardians of such a rare landscape to both maintain its qualities and share its lessons. This series of stories wrestles with how we define the word “wild,” in a place ...

Summer in California offers more than just beaches and cities crowded with tourists. If you’re looking to escape the usual ...

The new name takes in the Merced River, which like the Tuolumne arises in Yosemite National Park, and the Stanislaus River.

Salmon are an iconic species with deep cultural ties to tribes across California, but they have seen steep population ...

Fishing report compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the ...

The Pit River Tribe has regained ownership of 270 acres of ancestral land along the Fall River.