An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another one in Monterey County, California, when ecologist Rikke Jeppesen began her research two ...
SAN FRANCISCO – A California ecosystem has gotten a big boost from an adorable, fluffy and hungry friend. At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of ...
Roarke Brown, left, joins two deckhands in the busy Homer harbor aboard his charter boat the Pacific Shadow. Brown maintains that an unchecked sea otter population boom in the past 20 years has ...