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Jason Goldman

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Dr. Jason G. Goldman is a freelance science writer covering animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology. He has written for Scientific American, Los Angeles Magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, Conservation Magazine, and elsewhere. He hosts "The Wild Life" podcast and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He's obsessed with mountain lions and has been called a raccoon avenger.

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"We have this idea that nature exists in some place you have to drive to," says the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum's Jann Vendetti.
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Coyote C-146 had the bad luck to live in a landscape full of California's most dangerous animal species.
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This Los Angeles-based entomologist didn't set out to document an entirely new ecosystem. He just sort of stumbled on it.
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Azzam Alwash won acclaim for restoring the wetlands of Iraq. He has some insights for Californians concerned about our own wetlands.
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Crab caught off the California coast right now could give you the worst case of food poisoning ever.
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There's an undeveloped mountain in the Hollywood Hills near Laurel Canyon, and a group of wildlife advocates is trying to buy it.
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Coqui frogs are so loud that they've actually affected property values in Hawaii. And now they're showing up in SoCal.
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It can only be described as massive, salty, sandy, beachfront orgy. And we had front row seats.
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