Conservation

A statewide effort to monitor birds, the California Bird Atlas, hosts events around the region. And Lovers Point Beach is closed after a whale washed up.

An agreement between environmentalists and a housing developer in Riverside County will keep an ancient tree alive. And, Governor Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff pleads guilty to three felony charges.

Planned Parenthood shut its Santa Cruz location last week and Monterey had its first-ever abalone festival over the weekend.

Elkhorn Slough’s native oyster population is at risk of disappearing. Olympia oysters have made the Slough their home for 8,000 years. Now, scientists are…