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California Condor. Photo: Scott Frier/USFWS
Ian Souza-Cole, Audubon California's new field technician, standing in the forage field at Merced National Wildlife Refuge to show the height of the forage blend that was planted for Tricolored Blackbirds. This growth is a major improvement from last year and we hope it will attract nesting Tricolored Blackbirds.
When the California Coastal Commission removed its Executive Director in February, the voting members denied accusations from environmental and conservation groups that the move was an effort to diminish coastal protection. When the South Coast Air Quality Management District voted to remove its longtime director, it didn’t even bother. Members of the district’s board made clear their intention to roll back air quality regulations. Like the California Coastal Commission, the SCAQMD has made major gains in its area, rolling back smog in the greater Los Angeles Basin to levels not seen in decades. One of the SCAQMD’s first actions after the removal of its executive director was to approve a smog reduction plan endorsed by oil companies and other major polluters.
While the statewide population of California Quail, our state bird, seems to be thriving, it has for all intents and purposes vanished from San Francisco in recent years. There used to be thousands. An interesting piece in the Pacific Standard examines how that happened.
Nancy Reagan at an Audubon event in California, 1971.
Color at the Audubon Kern River Preserve. Our own Reed Tollefson shot this photo a few days ago on the Audubon Kern River Preserve. Looks like a good wildflower year.
We wanted to see a graphic representation of when certain birds appear at the Salton Sea. Violà.
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