(Photo by Chris Ray) The American pika, a small mammal adapted to high altitudes and cold temperatures, has died out from a 64-square-mile span of habitat in California’s northern Sierra Nevada ...

“The take-home is: The Gorge is a special habitat with some special characteristics that make it suitable for pika.” That habitat suffered a serious blow in 2017, when a firecracker tossed by ...

In Washington, they’re protected from hunting. Typical pika habitat is mountainside talus fields — those scenic, sloping patches of mossy boulders — that can be found at higher elevations on ...

Protecting the pika as endangered would help protect the species from direct harm and would also require the protection of the habitat necessary for the pika's survival and recovery. Just as ...

volunteers will begin monitoring sites at the edges of the core pika habitat, where the Columbia Gorge transitions into the more arid landscape east of Mount Hood, the Oregon Zoo said. That data ...

The whereabouts of the pint-sized pika, a mammalian indicator species that is losing its alpine habitat to climate change, have been mapped for the first time in Wyoming’s reaches of the Rocky ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Lovers of squeaky potato-sized rodents can rejoice this season, as new data is showing the population of pikas is on the rise in the Columbia River Gorge. The data comes ...

"We acknowledge there is going to be some decline at some locations, but the pika is widespread enough, across a range of habitat, that it appears it would not threaten the long-term survival and ...

“The pika app lets me turn that burst of excitement ... The Rocky Mountains have been the habitat of pikas for 12,000 years, according to The National Wildlife Federation. In 2010, the U.S ...

However, mounting concerns about the impact of climate change on the pika's habitat and population have brought them to the forefront. This prompted petitions in 2007 and 2016 to list the pika ...

“They’re also listed as a sensitive species by the state of Oregon, which is why we need a better understanding of how their populations and habitat could be changing.” The Pika Watch ...