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California Condor. Photo: Scott Frier/USFWS
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.
Ariana Rickard, Coastal Chapter Network Manager, spoke at a press event about why Audubon California supports Measure AA, the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area parcel tax to restore wetlands.
If approved by voters in June, “Yes on Measure AA for a Clean and Healthy Bay” would raise $500 million over 20 years to fund critical conservation and flood protection projects, including the restoration of 15,000 acres of wetlands and creation of 25 miles of new Bay trails. Co-Chaired by Senator Dianne Feinstein, the campaign has received endorsement from local elected officials, and business, environmental, labor, philanthropic and civic leaders.
Our Andrea Jones spoke with the Associated Press about the importance of safeguarding habitat for Northern Spotted Owl. Audubon California believes that it should never come down to killing one bird to help another. Old-growth habitat destruction is to blame for pitting the two owls against each other. Read the article here: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/owls-706151-spotted-barred.html.
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