Sierra Nevada red fox spotted on camera.

[Myles]

 

 

TABOOSE PASS, Calif. – The endangered Sierra Nevada red fox appeared in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains for the first time in almost a century. The region had not had a report of the species since the 1930s.

A network of wildlife cameras caught the endangered carnivore prowling near the border of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. After the initial sighting in April, cameras pictured the fox three more times.

Officials thought this fox species had died out in the Sierra Nevada range until they made sightings of a group in 2010 in the central Sierra. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) made the new finds about 100 miles away.

"These new detections are very personally gratifying and is a real payoff for all the hard work our staff has put in," said CDFW biologist Brian Hatfield in a news release. "From a conservation standpoint, this shows that the Sierra Nevada Red Fox is more widely distributed than previously believed."

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