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 ...
54th DPC Annual Meeting
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events | 1 Comment »We hope you'll join us at DPC's 54th Annual Meeting, to be held this year at the 29 Palms Inn in Twentynine Palms, California, close to Joshua Tree National Park. We'll have naturalist-led walks, three great speakers and a good ...
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 ...
Palms to Pines Map Now Available
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Art & Nature | No Comments »The "Palms to Pines Birding and Nature Trail Map" is now available from Friends of the Desert Mountains, authored by soon-to-be DesertBlog contributor Ruth Nolan, and DPC member Kurt Leuschner. Ruth worked on the project during her sabbatical (2006-07) from ...
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 ...
Two Forms of Desert Wildlife This Week
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events, desert wildlife | No Comments »The past two weeks may have convinced you that it's all Sunrise Powerlink all the time here at DesertBlog, but we're interested in other topics too. Really... how about these two events for some relief from the gloom and doom? Starting ...
