To find the shrew, the team set out pitfall traps — the only way to research small, burrowing mammals, according to Subramanyan. Over three nights, spent in the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

SACRAMENTO— In response to a petition and lawsuits from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted endangered status to a population of one of North ...

FEEDING: Sierra Nevada red foxes hunt at dusk and during the night, feeding on a variety of prey — primarily rodents and other small mammals, birds and reptiles — according to the season. They also ...

The range extends farther south in the Appalachians to eastern Tennessee, to New Mexico in the Rockies, and into California and western Nevada in the Sierra Nevada. In the Adirondacks, this species ...