Finn was treated for multiple bites after encountering otters in a California river in July. What’s behind this seeming flurry of otter attacks? Conservationist and river otter researcher Heide ...

Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they were hunted to near extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries. But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters ...

Green crab abundance was consistently lowest in Elkhorn Slough, the only California estuary with sea otters, the paper published in the journal Biological Invasions found. Healing the ecosystem so ...

A MAJOR CONCERN BECAUSE OF IT'S FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM, THE PROXIMITY TO THE FIRE, AND OF COURSE BECAUSE IS HOME TO A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF CALIFORNIA SEA OTTERS. "WE HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OF SEA OTTERS ...

The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (CTSI) has been awarded a three-year, $1.56 million grant from the National Fish ...