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Mangrove reforestation provides greater blue carbon benefit than afforestation for mitigating global climate change
Survey for selected parasites in Alaska brown bears (Ursus arctos)
Coherence among Oregon Coast coho salmon populations highlights increasing relative importance of marine conditions for productivity
Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA
High winds and melting sea ice trigger landward movement in a polar bear population of concern
Status and understanding of groundwater quality in the Redding–Red Bluff shallow aquifer study unit, 2019—California GAMA priority basin project
Assessing the presence of current-use pesticides in mid-elevation Sierra Nevada streams using passive samplers, California, 2018–19
Endangered Klamath suckers
Since Lost River suckers (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose suckers (Chasmistes brevirostris) hatched in the early 1990s, almost none of the fish have survived to adulthood. When full grown, Lost River suckers are the largest of the Klamath suckers, averaging about two and a half feet long, whereas shortnose suckers are at around twenty-one inches. Rather than an inability to spawn, these species a