Sage grouse listing “warranted but precluded”
Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | No Comments »From the Center for Biological Diversity: LAS VEGAS— In response to a petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental and faith-based groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that a population of the ...
Interior fast-tracks Big Solar on public lands
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Desert Politics, Endangered Species, Public Lands, renewable energy | 3 Comments »The Department of the Interior announced Monday that 676,048 acres of public lands — 24 tracts in five Western States — are being fast-tracked for development by the solar electrical generation industry. The tracts, called Solar Energy Study areas, will be scrutinized to ...
Climate change threat to Joshua trees gets more press
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Endangered Species, desert plants, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »The Riverside Press Enterprise reported Saturday on the increasingly widespread concern that in a century or so, Joshua Tree National Park's namesake species might not grow there anymore. The ancient plants are dying in the park, the southern-most boundary of ...
Bighorn Sheep Need Habitat
Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Endangered Species | 2 Comments »The Center for Biological Diversity, the Desert Protective Council, and three other conservation groups yesterday filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over a decision that threatens the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep. We believe ...
Sunrise Power Linkage
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, Sunrise Powerlink | Comments OffChris Clarke has a great post on Coyote Crossing summarizing the whole Sunrise Powerlink issue. It's a great primer for anyone new to the issue, and also asks people to call and e-mail Governor Schwarzenegger. Here's a link. A popular science blog ...
Army Rethinks Tortoise Relocation
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »While the U.S. Marine Corps has announced plans to expand its 29 Palms base, the Army's Ft. Irwin expansion efforts faced some difficulty when the Army announced on Friday that it would suspend its much-criticized desert tortoise relocation program. As biologists ...
Bighorn Sheep Are Counting On You
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 6 Comments »You're hiking up a rugged desert canyon somewhere at the eastern edge of southern California's Peninsular Ranges. The truck-sized boulders glow golden in the bright sunshine, and up ahead a clump of fan palms enlivens the mostly brown landscape. You ...
Bighorn Sheep Need a Home, Too
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | Comments OffIn contrast to its good news for the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, the US Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed a revision to southern California bighorn critical habitat that is mostly bad news. While the Service responded to public comment by adding back ...
How You Can Help the Desert Tortoise
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 1 Comment »Following up on last week's post, here are a few things you can do to help the desert tortoise: Comment on the US Fish & Wildlife Service's revised recovery plan (large PDF!) for California's state reptile. The plan has been criticized by the Center ...
Endangered Species Act Under Attack
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species | Comments OffIn its never-ending war on the natural world, the Bush Administration has proposed rules that would gut the Endangered Species Act, one of our nation's prime defenses against abuse of nature, whether that abuse is carried out by the government, ...
