In the 1930s, a raft of some 50 sea otters were discovered off the coast of Big Sur. Margaret Wentworth Owings was determined to ensure that those otters, and generations to follow, would survive ...

They were believed to be extinct until a small population was discovered off the rocky coast of Big Sur in 1914. They ...

California sea otters — also called southern sea otters — had almost disappeared and were believed extinct until a small group (or “raft”) of them appeared off the coast of Big Sur. Over the past few ...

Every day California sea otters spend 10 to 12 hours hunting and ... that otters had disappeared from the coast until in 1938 a Big Sur rancher sighted a group of only about 50 animals.

Bixby is named after Bixby Estuary along California's Big Sur coast. This location is incredibly significant in the history of southern sea otters. It is the place where the last remaning southern ...

Globe-trotting correspondent Robert Wernick heads west, to the precipitous cliffs that plunge into the Pacific at Big Sur. There ... ocean and stony beach, sea otter and condor and mountain ...