Sunrise Power Linkage
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »Chris 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 | 4 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 | No Comments »In 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 | No Comments »In 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, ...
Good News for Bighorn, Bad News for Tortoise
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »There was good news for Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep last week, as the US Fish & Wildlife Service finalized critical habitat for this population of bighorn, cousins to the desert bighorn of the southwest. The new decision on critical habitat ...
Threatened Desert Tortoise
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, Public Lands, desert wildlife | No Comments »Threatened Desert Tortoise Takes Another Hit In March in the Mojave Desert northeast of Barstow California, the US Army began removing close to 800 desert tortoises from habitat considered critical to their survival to an area south of the Ft. Irwin ...
