The Sierra Nevada red fox, a rare California species whose population is dramatically dwindling, has been listed as endangered.. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced in a news release ...

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) Type: Mammal Family: Canidae Habitat: Highly variable. Edge forests, deserts, tundra, cities, and suburban areas Location: Most of ...

The Sierra Nevada red fox (vulpes vulpes necator) lives at high elevations, eating small mammals and birds. They have a reddish-colored head, back, and sides; black backs of the ears; black ...

Rare Mountain Fox in California and Oregon Closer to Endangered Species Act ... winter in mature forest and summer in high meadows, fell fields, talus slopes and shrub lands. Their diet consists of ...

SACRAMENTO— In response to a petition and lawsuits from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting one of North America’s rarest mammals, the ...

The plight of the Cascade red fox may be tied to historical threats, Akins said. They were trapped for their fur. Their habitat has been fractured by roads, including Interstate 90.

Sierra Nevada red fox fur ranges in color from very red to black, but the fur behind its ears is always black. Coyotes and other fox species don't have this black fur behind the ears, Sacks said.

Red foxes aren't always reddish-orange in color. They can be jet black or silver, with white accents, said Shannon Schwab, district wildlife manager with the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

Three weeks ago, when U.S. Forest Service biologists thought they had found a supposedly extinct fox in the mountains of central California, they turned to UC Davis for confirmation. Photographs taken ...