BrightSource Energy has spent $56 million so far to protect the threatened creatures, but calamities have befallen the effort. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2012 Stubborn does not come close to describing the desert tortoise, a species that did its evolving more than 220 million Read more…
Foes call for the California regulator’s ouster after his role in a legal hunt in Idaho. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, February 29, 2012 The head of the California Fish and Game Commission has come under attack for killing a mountain lion during a hunt in Idaho, Read more…
The corporation, which illegally killed at least 11 cats to keep them away from game wanted by high-paying trophy hunters, must pay $136,500, according to a settlement with the state fish and game agency. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2012 The Tejon Ranch has agreed Read more…
Environmentalists are torn over the high cost to sensitive desert ecosystems of breaking the United States’ reliance on fossil fuels. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2012 IVANPAH VALLEY, CALIF. — Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the Read more…
Suspension is likely to be lifted by the fall hunting season, after ranch officials investigate operations. Kern County prosecutors are weighing charges in illegal hunting of the mountain lions. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2012 Tejon Ranch announced Friday that it plans to suspend its Read more…
Since falling to a low of 100 in 1999, the Catalina Island fox has rebounded to a number — 1,542 — above its previous level, thanks to conservationists’ efforts. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2012 The Catalina Island fox has made one of the most Read more…
The young animal is the first wolf known to be at large in California since 1924. Wildlife authorities in both states have been monitoring the wolf since it set out from the Crater Lake area in September. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2011 By Julie Read more…
A GPS collar tracks the journey of the male gray wolf known as OR7 as he meanders through Oregon and approaches the California border. The prospect of the species’ reappearance in the Golden State is thrilling to conservationists and chilling to ranchers. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, Read more…
Many of the ‘midnight regulations’ open wilderness for oil and gas drilling, and loosen environmental safeguards. President Bush has pushed 53 through in three weeks, researchers say Source of this article – Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2008 As the hour grows late, President Bush, like many chief executives before him, Read more…
Room to stretch a Frog’s Red Legs Source of this article – Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2008. By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer California’s red-legged frog may be getting some of its land back. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed on Tuesday to more than triple Read more…