It is dark and wet on Chileno Valley Road, but through the pitch black of this rainy night, glowing flashlight beams play along the road, illuminating the pavement and whatever may happen to crawl, ...

More than 48,000 deer, thousands of Pacific newts, close to 100 mountain lions and many thousands of other animals are killed each year by vehicles on California roads, according to the 2024 “roadkill ...

Sally Gale is a rancher in rural west Marin County, California. In addition to raising beef cattle, she leads a specialized brigade — one that’s helped save thousands of amphibians. The amphibians are ...

On a rainy night in the winter of 2019, rancher Sally Gale was returning home on West Marin’s Chileno Valley Road with her husband Mike when she suddenly said: “Stop the car!” She climbed out to study ...

Delivered via email the day before, it read: “You are now a member of the ‘Chileno Valley Newt Brigade,’ the first newt rescue project in the State of California. We hope to serve as a model for other ...

As the rainy season begins in Northern California, newts are on the move. Dedicated volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area are helping the tiny... Volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area helping ...

A group keen to protect newts from being run over on a rural road is asking the Transportation Authority of Marin for sales tax revenues to support the effort. The Chileno Valley Newt Brigade says it ...

As the first drops of rain hit the leaves, brown and orange newts emerge from their shelters and head down into the misty storm. California newts and rough-skinned newts are local to the East Bay and ...

(KRON) — Sonoma County Regional Parks is reminding parkgoers to be cautious of where they walk as small, sensitive newts are on the move this time of year. Park officials took to social media on ...