Escondido, California - Just before dawn on Thursday, a team of staff and volunteers from the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research was preparing to load and transport young frogs and tadpoles from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Conservation Research in Escondido, to release them into the wild at Fuller Mill Creek in the San Bernardino National Forest.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills.

Williams, California - Days after declaring a state of emergency in California in response to wildfires burning across the state, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will meet with fire and emergency officials fighting the Rocky Fire to receive a briefing on efforts to contain the blaze.

Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture is announcing three vacancies on the Fertilizer Inspection Advisory Board. The board advises the department’s Fertilizing Materials Inspection Program, which works to ensure that consumers receive fertilizing materials that are safe, effective, and meet the quality guaranteed by the manufacturer.

Sacramento, California - The California Fish and Game Commission voted 3-2 to ban bobcat trapping statewide. Commission President Jack Baylis and Commissioners Anthony Williams and Eric Sklar voted in favor of a statewide ban. Commission Vice President Jim Kellogg and Commissioner Jacqueline Hostler-Carmesin voted against it.