Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

Catalina Island conservationists are moving forward with an extensive plan to preserve the island's native habitat after the state recently approved the lethal shooting of the invasive mule deer on ...