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The Elusive Long-tailed Weasel

Have you ever seen a weasel in Santa Cruz? No? Well, you’re not alone. Most local residents are surprised that weasels live in Santa Cruz. We’re here to tell you that they do live here and that we recently had a fascinating experience raising and releasing an orphaned...

From the Archives: Meet the Flockers 2004

Native Animal Rescue, Rescue, Reunification

By Art O’Sullivan From the December 15-22, 2004 issue of Metro Santa Cruz. Copyright © Metro Publishing Inc. Maintained by Boulevards New Media. Meet the Flockers It was back in April 1991 when I moved into the second-story, cavelike...

To Rescue or Not to Rescue, that is the Question

Articles, Deer, Fawn, News, Rescue, Reunification

Spring and summer are when most wildlife give birth and when Native Animal Rescue receives hundreds of babies. But do these babies really need to be rescued? Because wildlife parents make much better parents to their offspring than humans, we want to make sure these...

Native Animal Rescue’s Owl Nest Box Program

Articles, Hawks, Owls, Prevention

By Chrissie Klinkowski Have you noticed owl nest boxes popping up around Santa Cruz County? There are excellent reasons for this. For farmers, barn owls nesting in their barns are the best defense against rodents. For our larger community, the deadly...

From the Shore to the Redwoods: Celebrating Forty Years of Biodiversity

Articles, Coexist, Katherine Montana, News

By Katherine Montana Meeting an animal native to California in its own environment is a treasured experience for many people, including myself. My introduction to the diversity of California wildlife came in a field course I took as an undergraduate student at UC...

Meet Scarlet, our new educational ambassador

Weasel

By Amy Redfeather “Scarlet,” as we call her, was brought to Native Animal Rescue one sunny day in March. Scarlet is a Long-Tailed Weasel (Mustela Frenata), a native species, rarely seen. When she arrived at NAR we noticed she was a little too friendly and was missing...