Sacramento Safari Club

Pheasant season is here

What an awesome hunt! Congrats Jim! Have you ever gotten your trophy on the last day of a hunt/season?

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Recently, Ben Ewing, a district fisheries biologist from CDFW’s North Central Region, Mike Mamola, CDFW’s statewide trout management and stocking coordinator, L...t. Erick Elliott from CDFW’s Law Enforcement Division, along with staff from the American River Trout Hatchery embarked on a collaborative effort to provide Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT) to backcountry waters in the high elevation areas of Alpine County. These waters are typically stocked by airplane but complications with the plane have resulted in several missed years of stocking. Wanting to continue to provide recreational angling in these remote areas, the team hatched a plan to use horses and fish packing jugs to get the LCT planted. CDFW has a long history (going back to the early 1900s) of using pack stock to plant fish in small, isolated lakes in the Sierra. Fish are loaded up in special cans that create aeration as the cans sway back and forth on the pack stock during the long journey (sometimes 20 to 30 miles) to the release site. Traditionally, this work was done with donkeys and mules, but in this case the team used horses. As with all of CDFW’s fish planting now, these lakes were carefully selected to provide recreational opportunity without impacting native species such as mountain yellow-legged frog. It’s all part of CDFW’s dual mission to provide both recreational opportunities and recover native species. A successful release this summer means there will be LCT to catch next summer for those that enjoy hiking into the backcountry for some solitude and fishing. The lakes that were stocked include Raymond, Lower Lost, Upper Lost, Granite, Evergreen, Frog and Round Top lakes in Alpine County. Well done, all!

CDFW currently has two injured bears (from the North Complex Fire and the Zogg Fire) and a mountain lion (from the Bobcat Fire) in its care. All three animals h...ave suffered burns to their feet, and are receiving veterinary treatment including the application of sterilized fish skin bandages in the hopes that they can be released to the wild. California’s wildfire season could go on for many months. Realizing that more patients could be brought in for burn care, CDFW and the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine are partnering to create the Wildlife Disaster Network, which provides a formal framework for wildlife search and rescue, field triage, transport and a long-term rehabilitation care system for injured wildlife resulting from wildfires. Learn more about this exciting development: https://wildlife.ca.gov//the-wildlife-disaster-network-is-

Last chance for some free fishing!

Great news! Kathy Lynch was successful at stopping SB 1175 (Stern) on concurrence on the Senate Floor and they were not able to bring it up. It went down to the midnight wire. Thank you Kathy and the many other folks who worked on this! A huge win in an incredibly tough environment. . .... . . . Photo by Ben Jessop from Pexels See more

Scientists from CDFW’s Wildlife Investigations Lab worked long hours last week capturing endangered riparian brush rabbits at a Central Valley wildlife refuge i...n an effort to protect them from a fatal disease that was recently detected in California. Most the state’s riparian brush rabbits, a state and federally endangered species, live at the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge, west of Modesto, and the adjacent Caswell Memorial State Park. CDFW is partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to capture up to 20 riparian brush rabbits from these locations to serve as a captive emergency population in case Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Type 2 (RHDV2) spreads throughout the state. RHDV2 is a fatal virus and was confirmed in a population of California wild rabbits near Palm Springs for the first time in May. Scientists brought a portion of the captured rabbits to the Oakland Zoo where they will be given a RHDV2 vaccine imported from Europe. If the rabbits do well with the vaccine, our scientists will launch a larger-scale vaccination effort in the wild. Visit CDFW’s Wildlife Investigation Lab online to learn more about efforts to contain RHDV2. https://wildlife.ca.gov//Wildlife-Investigatio/Monitoring

Hello September 1st! Did anyone go after dove this morning? "It's the most wonderful time of the year!"

A-Zone Deer general season in California opens August 8th. Where are you hunting? #privatelandhunting #blacktail #deerhunting #coastalbuck