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Panel Discards Scientists' Recommendations on Wildlife Kills at Solar Plant
Post date:A task force charged with addressing the burgeoning issue of bird and bat deaths at the Ivanpah solar plant in California's desert has dismissed many recommendations.
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Conservationists Sue Feds Over Wind Turbine Eagle Rule
Post date:A group of individual conservationists and a national bird protection organization have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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birds
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Crash In Tricolored Blackbird Population Has Biologists Worried
Post date:A bird sometimes called "California's passenger pigeon" is in worse trouble than some wildlife advocates suspected. According to a new survey, the population of tricolored blackbirds has dropped by 44 percent since 2011.
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solar flux
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California Denies Sierra Club Intervention On Large Solar Project
Post date:A state agency has turned down a request from the Sierra Club to become a formal legal party to proceedings regarding the proposed Palen Solar Electric Generating System.
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plants
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Rare Eastern Sierra Flower Gets Threatened Species Protection
Post date:The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed as Threatened a low-growing wildflower known from just 16 scattered populations on the east side of the Sierra Nevada.
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Endangered Species Day: 4 Inconspicuous California Species Worth Noting
Post date:While other websites celebrating Endangered Species Day are concentrating on the big and dramatic, we thought we'd celebrate by mentioning a few species that aren't big and flashy and glamorous. They're beautiful, but they don't flaunt it.
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mammals
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California's Part-Time Wolf, OR-7, May Be a Proud Papa
Post date:OR-7, the first wild wolf in California since 1924, may have started a family north of the state line.
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Oakland Heron Tragedy Underscores Need to Pay Attention To What You're Doing
Post date:A grisly blunder Saturday by a tree-trimming crew in Oakland resulted in the deaths of black-crowned night heron chicks, and though the culprits are saying they didn't mean to cause any harm, I'm not buying it.
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invertebrates
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Weakening Beetle's Protection is Bad Science, Groups Say
Post date:The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to take a California beetle off the Endangered Species Act's Threatened list, but two leading environmental groups are charging that the move is based on politics rather than science.
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Abengoa Solar
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Opposition Grows To Proposed Solar Tower Project
Post date:When last we checked in on the proposed Palen solar project, its builders were asking the California Energy Commission to restart hearings on the project.
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plants
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Feds Say 'No' to Cutting Protection for Endangered Mojave Plant
Post date:The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that a shrub found in just four places in the Mojave Desert still warrants its Endangered status, despite a petition from a conservative group to reduce the plant's status to Threatened.
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Amphibians
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3 California Frogs Win Protection Under Endangered Species Act
Post date:Good news for frogs and their admirers: the US Fish and Wildlife Service has granted protection to three species of frogs in California -- or more precisely, two frogs and a toad -- under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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birds
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Condor Territory Could Expand to California's North Coast
Post date:a Native tribe that lives along the Klamath River in Northern California is collaborating with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore California condors to the North Coast.
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Alta East
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Feds Evaluating Another Wind Project in Condor Country
Post date:The BLM says a proposed 1,100-acre wind energy facility in Kern County would pose no threat to the Endangered California condors living a few miles away.
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mammals
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Happy News For a California Species Once Thought Extinct
Post date:A southern California mouse species once feared extinct has some good news to share: its numbers are increasing... at least in captivity. A litter of four Endangered Pacific pocket mice was born at the San Diego Zoo this past weekend, with another litt...
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birds
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Drought to Hit Central Valley Wetlands Hard
Post date:The California agency that manages the state's massive State Water Project has released a drought management plan for the summer, and it includes bad -- but not particularly surprising -- news for the Central Valley's wetlands.
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birds
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Feds Want More Public Comment On Protecting Rare Bird
Post date:A striking bird that's been waiting more than 15 years for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to list it under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) just got handed another minor delay. USFWS has announced that it's reopening public commen...
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NRG Energy
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Federal Lab Offers Grim Look at Solar Harm to Wildlife
Post date:A report just made public by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service documents a disturbing amount of bird injuries at three large California desert solar power plants, and says that there are no easy fixes to the issue.
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birds
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Audubon Goes Into Emergency Mode to Save Bird Species Today
Post date:As much as a sixth of the total population of an emblematic California bird species faces harm this week, and a prestigious group has gone into emergency mode to prevent a tragedy.
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Groups Plan To Sue Over Agency Negligence On Desert Tortoise, Other Wildlife
Post date:They charge that BLM has failed to track the effects of a wide range of human activities in the California desert on the tortoise, as well as on other Endangered and Threatened desert animal and plant species.