News & Publications
Publications
- NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (Lontra canadensis) PREDATION ON BROWN PELICANS (PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS) AT ABBOTTS LAGOON, POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, CALIFORNIA, USA – IUCN SSC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin 42 (2) 2025.
- County of Marin and California Coastal CommissionLand Use Regulations are Critical for Adaptation to SeaLevel Rise in Coastal Marin County – Marin Lawyer, March 2025
- Recovering predators link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: River otters subsidize coyotes with carrion – Ecology and Evolution, June 18, 2024, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11444
- An Approach to Long Term Monitoring of Recovering Populations of Nearctic River Otters (Lontra canadensis) in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. — Northwestern Naturalist 101(2):77-91
- Return of North American River Otters to Coastal Habitats of the San Francisco Bay Area, California — Northwestern Naturalist 96(1):1-12
Comment Letters
- 2025. May 8 – Statement of Solidarity with Harvard University
- 2025. May 1 – FWS Rescind definition of “take”
- 2024, August 15 – Stinson Beach Parking Area Rehabilitation Project
- 2024. March 13 – California WDM EIR-EIS
- 2023. November 10 – Water Quality Strategy for Ranching Operations, Pt. Reyes National Seashore
- 2023. September 25 – Tomales Point Elk Management Plan, Pt. Reyes National Seashore
- 2023. February 10 – Drake’s Beach Hazards, Pt. Reyes National Seashore
- 2022. June 30. Sign-On Housing & Safety Element Comments
- 2022, June 10 – Stream Conservation Ordinance, SG Valley
- 2022, June 13 – Natural Resource and Water Committee, Senate Transportation Committee, regarding AB 2344 Safe Roads & Wildlife Protection Act – SUPPORT
- 2022, April 24 – Comment Letter PRNS Tomales Point Area Plan
- 2022, March 25 – Sonoma Development Center Specific Plan
- 2022, April 1 – To: California Coastal Commission regarding, Oppose Approval of the Water Quality Strategy and Climate Action Plan, Point Reyes National Seashore
ROEP in the News
2026
- The River Otters Remarkable Comeback by Timothy Mihocik, Rewilding Magazine, March 20206.
2024
- Sonoma County Baby River Otters Learn to Swim by Nate Seltenfich, Sonoma Magazine, July 2024.
- River Otter Attacks, Drags Child by Amanda Bartlett, SFGate, September 16, 2024.
- by Amanda Bartlett, SFGate, September 16, 2024.
- River Otter Attacks, Drags Child by Amanda Bartlett, SFGate, September 16, 2024.
- Hidden Benicia, River Otters in Lake Herman? by Kevin Nelson, Benicia Magazine, August 1, 2024.
- ‘Really unusual’: 3 river otters found dead on Bay Area road by Amanda Bartlett, SFGate, July 31, 2024.
- Learning to Swim, Sonoma Magazine, July 2024.
2023
- When Otters Attack: Experts Weigh in on Spate of Incidents by Amanda Kooser, Forbes, August 18, 2023.
- Otters Attack Swimmers in Sierra Nevada River and Lake, by Lisa Krieger and Ethan Baron, Bay Area News Group, August 13, 2023.
- Two River Otter Attack Reported in Northern California, by Amanda Bartlett, SFGate, August 17, 2023
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