A controversial plan has been approved to remove Catalina Island’s invasive deer using ground-based shooters, following backlash against earlier proposals for aerial shooting.

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An unlikely coalition of hunters and non-hunters is speaking out against the current plan to eradicate mule deer from ...

Conservancy sees nonnative species as major threat to local biodiversity, while residents rally to preserve local identity ...

California wildlife officials have confirmed the state’s first case of COVID-19 in a wild animal, detected in a mule deer killed in 2021 in El Dorado County. The infected deer was killed by a hunter ...

California is moving ahead with a plan that would leave Santa Catalina Island without a single mule deer. The state's Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a permit allowing the Catalina Island ...

On Friday, California wildlife officials approved a plan to shoot the island ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been detected for the first time in free-ranging California wildlife. One hunter-harvested mule deer, a buck from El Dorado ...