Looks like both developers and conservationists who have been squaring off over a huge housing project in the Montebello highlands -- just outside of Los Angeles -- have decided that they want to wait until the town's city council has its act together before moving forward. The beneficiary of the delay: California Gnatcatchers.
By Garrison Frost
September 13, 2009
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.
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