Research indicates that coyotes enjoy the benefits of urban areas enough to put up with all the people, and Seattle is no exception. Food is abundant and predators are few.

Over the past century, coyotes have colonized every major metropolitan area in North America. Chicago is home to an estimated 4,000 coyotes, and in Los Angeles, urban coyote density is at least seven times higher than in wild areas. Coyotes are often spotted in parks and neighborhoods throughout Seattle, but the lack of formal data makes it difficult for researchers to track trends.

Traditional field research combined with new technology has revealed a secret to the survival of juvenile salmon as they form in their eggs, especially in low-water years when many do not survive, new research from NOAA Fisheries and the University of California, Davis shows.
Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon are California’s most endangered salmon, with a single surviving population and an average of a few thousand returning fish in recent decades. Shasta Dam blocks their original habitat in cold mountain rivers draining Mount Shasta, leaving them to spawn in the low-lying Sacramento River heated by the summer sun.

Snake River fisheries managers are seeking to renew their sockeye salmon hatchery broodstock program designed to support the recovery of the Endangered Species Act-listed fish. NOAA Fisheries is seeking comments on the applications that include a hatchery and genetic management plan and an environmental assessment until Aug. 17. The HGMP describes a hatchery brood stock...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration last week over what it says is the National Marine Fisheries Service’s “failure to protect imperiled sunflower sea stars as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.” The Service proposed to protect the sea stars in 2023, in response to a petition by the Center. The agency...