The Fish and Game Commission votes this month on whether to double the black bear bag limit from one to two. For SoCal hikers and campers, the backdrop is a bear population that has grown faster than the state’s tolerance for it.
Wolf BEY03F crossed into Inyo County on April 6, becoming the first documented wolf in the Eastern Sierra in over a century.
State surveyors found zero measurable snow at Phillips Station on April 1. The statewide snowpack is 18% of average. The Sierra’s “frozen reservoir” melted two months early — and the implications go well beyond skiing.
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