The Sierra Nevada red fox, one of the rarest carnivores on the planet, has been detected in the Lake Tahoe Basin for the first time since the mid-1900s. A singular Sierra Nevada red fox turned up on trail camera video on the morning of Nov. 13, 2025, in the Blackwood Canyon area of Placer County on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. Once thought to have been extirpated from the mountain range, Sierra Nevada red fox were first detected in the central Sierra Nevada near Sonora Pass in 2010. In recent y

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Sierra Nevada red fox spotted in Tahoe Basin for the first time in decades