Spring and summer are prime times for wildlife births, leading Native Animal Rescue (NAR) to receive numerous calls about baby animals. But are these babies truly in need of rescue? Wildlife parents are generally better caregivers than humans, so it’s essential to ensure a baby actually needs intervention. Often,Read More →
Taking the Bull by the Horns By Kevin Foster With climate change and fire seasons lasting nearly year round, residents all across the western states are adapting to protect their largest investment, their homes. Building codes are also adapting to the more common frequency of fires with new products thatRead More →
Take the Bull by the Horns by Kevin Foster Within the last 60 days wildlife rehab centers have been overwhelmed with the intake of brown pelicans. Fishing game wildlife biologists are unsure of the cause for all the starving pelicans from San Diego to the Monterey Bay. Some speculate thatRead More →
by Kevin Foster Each year we have lots of new residents moving to the Santa Cruz mountains. The winters are something that take a little getting used to with trees falling, many times multiple road closures that made destinations unreachable for many hours, sometimes for a couple days or more. Read More →
Kevin Foster The world keeps throwing curveballs at us. We’ve seen the avian flu in our wild birds, the swine flu, and of course our new strain of flu and Covid. Well, if that wasn’t enough, now there is an unknown virus, giving our furry family dogs a cough. AfterRead More →
