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News.bytes
A publication of Bureau of Land Management in California
Issue 520 - 3/2/12
THIS WEEK IN NEWS.BYTES:
- America's Great Outdoors
- Get Outdoors tip of the week
- Not for educators only: Wildlife trivia question of the week
- Funny.bytes reprise
- Traditional energy
- Renewable energy
- Wildfires and prevention
- Headlines and highlights: Assorted topics from your public lands in California
- Selected upcoming events
- National and Department of the Interior items
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www.blm.gov/ca/news/newsbytes/2012/520.html
AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS
"BLM invites climbers to free morning coffees" (News.bytes Extra)
The BLM's Bishop Field Office invites climbers for a hot beverage,
once a month at 8:30am. Rangers will be available to answer questions
you might have on the Bishop area. Dates for the coffee talks will be
posted a week ahead of time in the PV Pit campground. The BLM is
attempting to cultivate a working relationship with the local climbing
community to promote responsible use of public lands and hopefully,
attract some new volunteers.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2012/520xtra_climbers_coffees.html
"Hill climbs and sand drags at Dumont" (News.bytes Extra)
More than 15,000 people traveled to Dumont Dunes Off-Highway Vehicle
Recreation Area over the President's Day Weekend -- the unofficial end
of the riding season at Dumont. Among the visitors were members of the
Las Vegas Jeep Club, who competed in hill climbs at Banshee Hill and
sand drag races on flat terrain at its base.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2012/520xtra_dumont_sanddrags.html
RELATED: "Dumont Dunes Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area" (BLM
Barstow Field Office)
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/barstow/dumont.html
"Piedras Blancas lighthouse gets a facelift" (San Luis Obispo Tribune, 3/2/12)
A contractor recently finished "applying five specialized coats" to
protect the lighthouse from salt air. The tower, "now sparkling white
with sharply contrasting black trim" replaces "a dull beige, lead-base
surface laced with rusty streaks." Volunteers put in "what's estimated
as more than 100,000 hours" toward restoration, and the site now has
"a restored fuel oil house, a replica of the station's shingled watch
room" and "other repaired historic structures, such as employee
housing and a strip of small offices, that now house the Piedras
Blancas Light Station Association gift shop."
www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/03/01/1971433/piedras-blancas-lighthouse-facelift.html
RELATED: "Twilight tour marks Piedras Blancas 137th birthday; more
tours on tap" (News.bytes Extra)
A twilight tour on Feb. 18 marked the 137th anniversary of the Piedras
Blancas Light Station. The tour featured guides and assistants in
1909-era attire, historic enactments and sunset viewing. The twilight
tour also celebrated completion of the first phase of lighthouse
restoration -- removing the old, discolored lead-based paint. Public
tours of the Piedras Blancas Light Station are offered Sept. 1 through
June 14 on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10 a.m. From June 15
through August 31 tours are at 10 am Monday - Saturday.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2012/520xtra_piedras_137th.html
"Wildflower lovers hope for a 'March miracle'" (Palm Springs Desert
Sun, 2/25/12)
"The drier-than-average winter has driven down the odds for an
abundant wildflower season in the Coachella Valley, the kind when
washes and empty desert are carpeted with yellows, purples and reds,
cresting in March or April .... But the Feb. 15 rainstorm that dumped
more than a quarter-inch on the valley has given wildflower season a
new lease on life." Wildflower fans "are eagerly waiting to see what
pops up in the next couple of weeks."
www.mydesert.com/article/20120225/NEWS01/202250335/Wildflower-lovers-hope-March-miracle-
"Getting Out: Bird watching opens up the sky" (San Benito County Today, 2/28/12)
"I am not a birder, but only a barren soul is unmoved by exotic
waterfowl in Serengeti-like numbers. On a recent Sunday, we joined
friends on a visit to the Cosumnes River Preserve hoping to see them
in big numbers and feel their powerful life force." With the help of a
naturalist, "we were introduced to cinnamon teals, green-winged teals
(wow), American widgeons, northern pintails and lots more lolling
about in the slough. But beyond doubt, the real show was in the sky
above. White-fronted geese, snow geese, and sandhill cranes
crisscrossed the sky in a delightful honking chaos of comings and
goings. But for me, the day's most heart-stopping sight was watching a
sandhill crane descend and land."
www.ca.blm.gov/v6jd
RELATED: "Cosumnes River Preserve" (BLM Mother Lode Field Office)
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/folsom/cosumpres.html
"The winners list" (News.bytes Extra)
Academy Award winners were not the only celebrities holding shiny gold
statues during these past few days. It's science fair season in
California and students are sharing the gold! To showcase
investigation, nature, and the outdoors, the BLM Palm Springs-South
Coast Field Office presented Desert Studies Awards at the Palm Springs
Unified School District Science Fair. Several staff from the BLM Palm
Springs office served as judges. Of the 266 projects, one stood out.
Fifth graders Kevin Gonzales and Victor Lindo's project, What Is Under
My Feet?
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2012/520xtra_science_fair_2012.html
"New National Water Trails System to promote healthy, accessible
rivers" (Department of the Interior, 2/29/12)
The National Water Trails System is a new network that will increase
access to water-based outdoor recreation, encourage community
stewardship of local waterways, and promote tourism that fuels local
economies across America. The announcement came in advance of a White
House Conference on Conservation, spotlighting community-driven
conservation efforts as part of President Obama's America's Great
Outdoors Initiative.
www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/New-National-Water-Trails-System-to-Promote-Healthy-Accessible-Rivers.cfm
"Newsmaker: A mission to protect the beauty that surrounds us" (Palm
Springs Desert Sun, 2/26/12)
Interview with John Purcell, who was appointed executive director of
the Friends of the Desert Mountains earlier this month. (text and
video)
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,xazi,3xn3,dhw1,iix0,283f,37zd
RELATED: "Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument" (BLM
Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office)
The Friends of the Desert Mountains provide financial and volunteer
support for a variety of activities within the Santa Rosa and San
Jacinto Mountains National Monument, including environmental education
and interpretation, cultural preservation, scientific research, and
community outreach.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/santarosa.html
"Salazar, Duncan partner to boost use of parks and public lands as
21st century education centers" (Department of the Interior, 2/27/12)
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Education Arne
Duncan announced a new agreement to create programs that use national
parks, national wildlife refuges and other public lands as classrooms
for 21st century education -- designed to benefit teachers, students
and parents in rural America and urban classrooms alike. The agreement
enables the departments to work together in new and more effective
ways to connect young Americans to the outdoors, improve environmental
literacy, support experiential learning outside the classroom, and
form partnerships at the local level to learn from and conserve public
lands.
www.ca.blm.gov/z6jd
BLM Flickr photo set: The Trona Pinnacles
A selection of photos from one of the most unusual geologic wonders in
the California Desert -- made even more unusual in some cases, when
parts of the area were used as movie sets.
www.flickr.com/photos/blmcalifornia/sets/72157624218061531/
RELATED: "The Trona Pinnacles" (BLM Ridgecrest Field Office)
This unique landscape consists of more than 500 tufa (calcium
carbonate) pinnacles rising from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake
basin. These tufa spires, some as high as 140 feet, were formed
underwater 10,000 to 100,000 years ago when Searles Lake formed a link
in an interconnected chain of Pleistocene lakes stretching from Mono
Lake to Death Valley. The Trona Pinnacles were designated by the
Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark in1968 to
protect one of the nation's best examples of tufa formation.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/ridgecrest/trona.html
What do these plants have in common?
Medusahead, Klamathweed, Scotch thistle, and Perennial pepperweed.
See the answer on BLM California's homepage:
www.blm.gov/ca/
NOT for EDUCATORS ONLY:
Desert horned lizard
WILDLIFE TRIVIA QUESTION of the WEEK:
When a desert horned lizard senses danger, it often stays very still
and tries to blend in with the ground. If noticed by a predator, it
makes hissing sounds and tries to bite the enemy. This tactic…
(a.) …is not very effective against other types of lizards, who try
the same thing, after all.
(b.) …is not very effective against snakes, who are hard of hearing.
(c.) …does not work on birds, who are their main predators.
(d.) …is very effective at attracting mates.
(e.) …is quite effective in the workplace, if one does not wish to be
recruited for the office Social Committee.
See answer -- and more on wildlife -- near the end of this News.bytes.
TRADITIONAL ENERGY
"State loosens 'fracking' ban near Taft" (Bakersfield Californian, 2/24/12)
Steam fracking "injects steam underground at high pressure to break up
the area's porous soil and release oil." Berry Petrolium Co. was
banned "from steam fracking within 150 feet of any seeping wells at
the prolific Midway-Sunset field" until it shows "that the steam does
not cause oil and other fluids to seep to the surface." A state agency
linked "steam fracking and seepage of oil field fluids" to the death
of a Chevron employee when a sinkhole opened beneath him at the field.
The agency and the EPA had called for "closer regulation of steam
fracking at Midway-Sunset as a way of protecting future drinking water
sources. Industry representatives call that overprotective, saying the
underground water in that area is undrinkable."
www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/business/x1801991983/State-loosens-fracking-ban-near-Taft
"California's controversial oil drilling" (NBC Bay Area, 3/1/12)
"You've heard of fracking, the controversial practice of splitting
rocks underground with high pressure water mixed with chemicals to
release natural gas or oil. It's a technique that has raised serious
concerns all over the country .... it's also going on right here in
California .... Fracking is usually used to mine natural gas, but ...
companies here in California are after .... oil." Two environmental
groups have "filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management and
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar" over an oil and gas lease sale in
Monterey and Fresno counties.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/What-the-Frack-Controversial-Drilling-Happening-Here-in-California-140956263.html
"How to Extract Gas Responsibly" (New York Times, 2/27/12)
OpEd columnist Joe Nocera: "Fracking isn't going away. To put it
another way, the technique of hydraulic fracturing, used to extract
natural gas from once-impossible-to-get-at reservoirs like the
Marcellus Shale that lies beneath New York and Pennsylvania, has more
than proved its value. At this point, shale gas, as it's called, makes
up more than 30 percent of the country's natural gas supply, up from 2
percent in 2001 — a figure that is sure to keep rising. Fracking's
enemies can stamp their feet all they want, but that gas is too
important to leave it in the ground."
www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/opinion/nocera-how-to-frack-responsibly.html
"Oil exploration along Rocky Mountain Front has residents curious and
concerned" (Ravalli Republic, 3/1/12)
More than 200 people showed up at a meeting on impacts of new oil
wells on their northern Montana county. Bureau of Land Management
petroleum engineer Don Judice said fracking would be used, but, "it
should be very different than fracking in the eastern United States"
and take place "several thousand feet below the drinking water
aquifers," making it very unlikely it could contaminate a drinking
water supply. "There are one million fracking wells drilled in the
U.S. And we haven't had a problem yet," Judice said. An incident in
Wyoming where contamination is suspected from fracking involves a
900-foot-deep well – much shallower than the projects proposed on the
Rocky Mountain Front."
www.ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/0ed400f8-b783-5780-b933-99791e3e2fb2.html
"Rock-Heating for Oil Pits Shell Against Environmentalists" (Bloomberg, 2/27/12)
Companies "are seeking to tap into as much as 4.29 trillion barrels of
oil .. by heating rocks until petroleum sweats out. Much of it is on
lands controlled by the federal government in Colorado, Wyoming and
Utah." The BLM "this month proposed reducing access for research and
development of oil shale in the region by three quarters." That
prompted the House "to pass legislation that would require the agency
to conduct at least five commercial lease sales in the oil-shale
region by the end of 2015." A spokesman for one project says the
industry needs that land for research and development, because it
"still needs a lot of testing to reduce the environmental impact of
the production."
www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-27/sweating-rocks-for-oil-pits-shell-against-u-s-environmentalists.html
"Chevron leaving Western Slope oil shale project" (Denver Business
Journal, 2/28/12)
"Oil shale formations, and the thick, sludgy 'kerogen' they produce,
are different from shale oil formations ... which produce crude oil.
Supporters of oil shale have said the rock layers could be a
significant supply of domestic crude oil — if the kerogen could be
removed and heated. But many believe that research breakthroughs are
years away."
www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2012/02/28/chevron-leaving-western-slope-project.html
RENEWABLE ENERGY
"Search for artifacts begins on Genesis solar site" (Palm Springs
Desert Sun, 2/29/12)
"To date, about 100 artifacts have been uncovered during regular
grading, including two grinding stones called metates that some tribal
officials say could be part of a sacred site" at the site of the
250-megawatt Genesis solar project, being built on public land east of
the Coachella Valley. "The metates find had stopped all construction
on a 200-acre area on the Genesis site since late November, while the
controlled grading plan was developed by the BLM, California Energy
Commission and NextEra. Some tribal groups providing input argued the
site should be left alone and no further evaluation done."
www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012202290306
WILDFIRES AND PREVENTION
"Fire Safe Council preps for dry season" (Kern Valley Sun, 2/29/12)
The Kern River Valley Fire Safe Council discussed fuel reduction
projects, 42 of them "in various stages of completion." Plans include
"a kid-friendly publication 'Ready, Set, Go'" that explains fire
prevention techniques such as defensible space. The president of the
council said that the council needs to get its fire-prevention message
not just to residents, but to "weekenders and property owners who rent
their properties" – and let them know of "the efforts the council,
USFS, BLM and County Fire are expending for the safety of the people
who live in the community and the preservation of the unique landscape
surrounding the valley."
www.kvsun.com/articles/2012/02/28/kv_life/doc4f4d60a434821569752628.txt
"BLM plans pile burning in Amador and Calaveras counties" (BLM
California, 2/27/12)
BLM crews plan to start burning brush piles on March 13, as weather
conditions allow. The piles are from thinning of the forest
understory, to help protect homes in the area.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2012/february/brushpile_burns_amador_calaveras.html
"Another bad year seen for wildfires" (Arizona Daily Star, 3/2/12)
"Conditions that pushed fire through a million acres of Arizona
grassland and forest last year could return this spring to Southern
Arizona. The warnings are out, and some early fires have already
proved difficult to manage."
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,xazi,3xn3,im3i,bri0,283f,37zd
"Take responsibility..." (California Fire Alliance)
Protect your home. Create 100 feet of defensible space. In California,
the number of homes and businesses is growing in the Wildland Urban
Interface -- and fire is an increasing threat. Reduce your home's fire
danger by taking responsibility today.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,xazi,3xn3,1xkx,afqx,283f,37zd
FUNNY.BYTES REPRISE: "War of the Weeds"
What are these alien invaders? Can they be defeated? We bring you this
encore performance to help mark National Invasive Weeds Awareness Week
- this week.
www.blm.gov/ca/media/flash/fb/waronweeds.html
RELATED: "2012 National Invasive Species Awareness Week" --
February 26 - March 3, 2012: A week of activities, briefings,
workshops and events focused on strategizing solutions to address
invasive species prevention, detection, monitoring, control, and
management issues at local, state, tribal, regional, national and
international scales.
www.nisaw.org/
HEADLINES and HIGHLIGHTS
"Public invited to review BLM's OHV grant applications" (BLM
California, 2/28/12)
The public is invited to comment on applications the BLM has submitted
to the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Off-Highway
Motor Vehicle Recreation Division. The OHVMR grants and cooperative
agreements program supports well-managed off-highway vehicle
recreation in California by providing financial assistance. BLM's
California Desert District field offices that have grant applications
for public review are: Barstow, El Centro, Needles, Palm Springs-South
Coast and Ridgecrest.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2012/february/blm_ohv_grant_apps.html
"Volunteers clean litter from archaeological site" (News.bytes Extra)
Members of the Coachella Valley Archaeological Society and the
Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians recently teamed up with the
BLM Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office, to clean-up accumulated
trash from an archaeological site near the famous Lake Cahuilla
fish-traps site.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2012/520xtra_archeo_cleanup.html
"WEMO Route Network Project subgroup meeting set" (BLM California, 2/27/12)
The BLM's California Desert Advisory Council West Mojave Route Network
Project subgroup has set its first meeting for Tuesday, March 13, 6:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Barstow. All subgroup meetings are open to the
public.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2012/february/wemo_subgroup_mtng.html
"Cannabis destruction shocks lawmakers" (Arcata Eye, 3/1/12)
The watershed impacts of marijuana growing were described as being
highly destructive at a state hearing and legislators have vowed to
take action." Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture Hearing in
Sacramento. Chairman Wes Chesbro said, "This not an anti-marijuana
discussion – this is about how to protect the environment from the
irresponsible growing of marijuana." One witness said that "he's seen
drastic impacts in the central valley from large-scale use of
pesticides, fertilizer and water diversion" including on Forest
Service, Bureau of Land Management and national parks lands.
www.arcataeye.com/2012/03/cannabis-destruction-shocks-lawmakers-march-1-2012/
"County in Brief: Los Flores burro has new name" (Santa Maria Times, 2/26/12)
"Katherine Rosalee Sutterfield's suggestion of Solomon was chosen as
the winner in Santa Maria's "Name That Burro Contest," which
culminated Feb. 10. Solomon was one of two burros the Recreation and
Parks Department adopted late last year from the Bureau of Land
Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program.The other burro was named
Mojave by the benefactor who donated the money used to adopt the
pair."
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,xazi,3xn3,d7a6,jkrr,283f,37zd
"Opposition forms against sending desert water to Orange County" (San
Bernardino County Sentinel, 2/26/12)
"Belated opposition is hurriedly forming to a plan that would pump an
average of 50,000 acre-feet of water per year out of the aquifer in
San Bernardino County's eastern Mojave Desert and convey it in a
pipeline to Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties...." The Cadiz
Valley Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project "is a modified
version" of a plan "was ultimately rejected ... after conservationists
raised concerns over possible environmental damage." The plan was
"revived ... in modified form, emphasizing less the drawing of water
from the Colorado River and instead proposing to obtain much of the
water from sources feeding the area's dry lakes that are subject to
evaporation."
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,xazi,3xn3,ctdy,2ah0,283f,37zd
RELATED: "The Cadiz Valley Project" (Santa Margarita Water District)
The water district released the Draft Environmental Impact Report on
Dec. 5, with a 70-day comment period through Feb. 13. "Although the
initial comment period exceeded the minimal time requirements set
forth under the CEQA process, SMWD has received requests to further
extend the comment period. A Notice of Extension was issued by the
District announcing a 30-day extension of the public comment period
through March 14, 2012. A copy of the DEIR can be downloaded ...."
www.smwd.com/operations/the-cadiz-valley-project.html
RELATED: "Complaint lodged against Cadiz project" (Needles Desert Star, 2/29/12)
A Needles woman "alleges the conduct of the Santa Margarita Water
District is in violation of the Ralph M. Brown Act, better known as
the open meeting law ... by holding a ruse California Environmental
Quality Act hearing in Joshua Tree located outside of the district's
jurisdiction" and a 300-mile round trip from "the east Mojave
communities that will be most affected by the project."
www.thedesertstar.com/articles/2012/02/29/news/local/news883.txt
"Hundreds attend discussion on proposed Berryessa Snow Mountain
National Conservation Area" (Lake County News, 2/26/12)
"Two United States congressmen, six panelists, representatives of
wilderness organizations and nearly 200 community members packed the
Highlands Senior Center in Clearlake last Thursday for an informative
town hall meeting on the proposed Berryessa Snow Mountain National
Conservation Area." Questions raised during the two-hour meeting
included effects on the Walker Ridge Wind Project and on cattle
grazing. "The Tuleyome organization is planning more informational
meetings, including one in Napa in March."
www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23862
JOBS
"Current job openings - BLM California" (USAJOBS website)
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,xazi,3xn3,8qwy,1ci0,283f,37zd
NATIONAL AND DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR ITEMS
BLM Arizona:
"Law Enforcement Patrol Yields Archaeological Find" (BLM Arizona news, 2/21/12)
BLM Ranger Grady Cook was part of "a law enforcement surge against
smuggling activities in the national monuments" in Arizona. He spotted
"an interesting rockpile" along a "smuggling road." With a degree in
anthropology and archaeology, Cook knew that it was more than a
rockpile. "I knew it was something historic, most likely prehistoric,"
he said. Indeed, it turned out to be a site where an ancient group of
people likely lived year-round and farmed, a site that had never
before been recorded by archaeologists.
www.blm.gov/az/st/en/info/newsroom/2012/february/new-arch-site.html
"BLM celebrates Arizona Archaeology Month" (BLM Arizona news, 2/28/12)
The BLM Colorado River District has scheduled tours of archaeological
and historic sites in Parker and Kingman, Arizona, during the month of
March.
www.blm.gov/az/st/en/info/newsroom/2012/february/crd-archeo.html
BLM Nevada:
"Exhibit displays art rubbings of Basque sheepherders" (Reno
Gazette-Journal, 2/24/12)
"Many of the Basque sheepherders who spent the summer months in the
early 20th century in the Sierra Nevada used the aspen trees as their
canvases. With a pocket knife or nail as their tool, the men who came
to the West from the Pyrenees region between France and Spain would
carve figures into the soft skin of the tree." The U.S. Forest Service
and Bureau of Land Management give tours groves where these aspen
carvings can still be seen.
www.rgj.com/article/20120226/LIV/302260025/1089/liv
"Beauty, solitude await in Gold Butte region" (Las Vegas
Review-Journal, 2/26/12)
"The remote Gold Butte region of Clark County lies south of Mesquite
between the Overton Arm of Lake Mead and the Arizona-Nevada border.
Listed by the Bureau of Land Management as a scenic backcountry byway
in 1989, a long, lonely road accesses unpopulated expanses of desert,
mountains, canyons and eroded sandstone formations between the Virgin
River and the remnants of the old mining town of Gold Butte."
www.lvrj.com/living/beauty-solitude-await-in-gold-butte-region-140473173.html
"Nuclear energy group sues over uranium mining ban in Arizona"
(Bloomberg Business Week, 2/28/12)
"The two organizations, representing mining and nuclear power
companies ... asked a federal court in Arizona to reverse a U.S.
Interior Department ban, announced Jan. 9, on new hard-rock mining
claims on about 1 million acres of land" near the Grand Canyon.
www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-28/nuclear-energy-group-sues-over-uranium-mining-ban-in-arizona.html
SELECTED UPCOMING EVENTS
March 3 - Coachella Valley Wildflower Festival 2012
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center
- Palm Desert
www.ca.blm.gov/l6jd
See website for dates - Public tours - Piedras Blancas Light Station
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/bakersfield/Programs/pbls/tours.html
WILDLIFE TRIVIA answer and related websites
(c.) …does not work on birds, who are their main predators.
SOURCE: "Desert horned lizard - Phrynosoma platyrhinos" (BLM
California wildlife database)
www.blm.gov/ca/forms/wildlife/details.php?metode=serial_number&search=2558
More wildlife news from your public lands (and elsewhere):
"Service identifies area to be assessed for potential northern spotted
owl critical habitat, proposes broad exclusions, ecological forestry,
and barred owl control" (Department of the Interior, 2/28/12)
In compliance with an order from a U.S. District Court, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service announced a science-based critical habitat
proposal for the northern spotted owl that begins a public review
process to determine what forest lands should be designated as
critical habitat in a final rule that will be published in November.
www.ca.blm.gov/y6jd
"Sierra animal researcher deluged with sock donations" (Sacramento Bee, 2/27/12)
Researcher Rick Sweitzer "uses socks to hold chicken meat as bait" to
lure Pacific fishers to an automated camera, "so biologists can record
the travels of the elusive species." The week before Christmas, he
issued a news release asking for socks, hoping to cut his budget,
"since the project uses about 200 socks per month .... he has received
'well over 10,000' socks from all over North America, including Alaska
and Canada" -- some with personal notes, a few "heartrending." He
said, "Now people all over the country know what the Pacific fisher is
and that there's an effort going on to understand more about them." He
is "not actively seeking" more socks.
www.sacbee.com/2012/02/25/4289726/sierra-animal-researcher-deluged.html
"California wolf trek shows importance of wilderness" (Los Angeles
Times Greenspace, 2/28/12)
"The incredible ramble of California's only wolf shows more than
determination, as OR7 has trotted more than 1,000 miles to look for a
mate and a new home. It also demonstrates the necessity of wilderness
areas that serve as safe corridors for migrating wildlife .... Some
national groups ... have mapped and proposed continent-wide corridor
planning for years. However, corridors often remain somewhat abstract
until a creature like OR7 comes along to show how they're all strung
together." A 2001 effort helped "identify and map large chunks of
national forest, lands managed by the federal Bureau of Land
Management and other habitat that would be best preserved as
wilderness."
www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-california-wolf-trek-shows-wilderness-20120228,0,523741.story
"California's lone wild wolf crosses back into Oregon" (Sacramento Bee, 3/2/12)
"The gray wolf known as OR7 crossed back into Oregon around noon
Thursday, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife,
which has been monitoring its GPS collar along with the California
Department of Fish and Game."
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