(excerpted from Mercury News) by Julia Scott "Locals have spent every winter for the past 15 years watching silvery steelhead trout die in Pescadero Marsh. Now they are tired of waiting for state [...] Read more

By Kathleen Dickey California coastal newt Our handsome California coastal newt, Taricha torosa torosa, lives up to 20 years. It eats insects and worms and is itself eaten by the California garter [...] Read more