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The lawsuit comes after the federal government earlier this month announced a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/9bf4541d89e6444783814e53302ce479\">changes\u003c/a> to weaken the Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6310713-ESA-Complaint-FINAL.html\">filing\u003c/a> , the groups argue that the Trump administration violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to analyze the effects of the new rules. They also charge that the administration unreasonably changed requirements to comply with part of the Endangered Species Act that would have prevented any changes that could threaten the existence or habitat of any listed species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the midst of an unprecedented extinction crisis, the Trump administration is eviscerating our most effective wildlife protection law,” Rebecca Riley, legal director of the nature program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement. “These regulatory changes will place vulnerable species in immediate danger — all to line the pockets of industry. We are counting on the courts to step in before it’s too late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Goodwin, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of the Interior, criticized the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unsurprising that those who repeatedly seek to weaponize the Endangered Species Act — instead of use it as a means to recover imperiled species — would choose to sue,” Goodwin said. “We will see them in court, and we will be steadfast in our implementation of this important act with the unchanging goal of conserving and recovering species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Meister, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, declined to comment. Spokespeople for the National Marine Fisheries Service did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the enforcement changes, officials for the first time will be able to publicly attach a cost to saving an animal or plant. Blanket protections for creatures newly listed as threatened will be removed. Among several other changes, the action could allow the government to disregard the possible impact of climate change, which conservation groups call a major and growing threat to wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A United Nations report released in May warned that more than 1 million plants and animals globally face extinction, some within decades, because of human influence, climate change and other threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping save the bald eagle, California condor and scores of other animals and plants from extinction since President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1973. The act currently protects more than 1,600 species in the United States and its territories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the act has also led to legal and political fights between animal protectors and industries and opponents. 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The lawsuit comes after the federal government earlier this month announced a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/9bf4541d89e6444783814e53302ce479\">changes\u003c/a> to weaken the Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6310713-ESA-Complaint-FINAL.html\">filing\u003c/a> , the groups argue that the Trump administration violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to analyze the effects of the new rules. 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Becerra: It Does Seem Like You're Fighting Trump's Environmental Policy At Every Turn","publishDate":1566219735,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Atty. Gen. Becerra: It Does Seem Like You’re Fighting Trump’s Environmental Policy At Every Turn | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Last week, the Trump Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101872729/changes-to-endangered-species-act-weaken-wildlife-protections\">weakened\u003c/a> the Endangered Species Act with the broadest changes to the bedrock environmental law in decades.[aside postID=science_1946454,science_1946394]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s new rules make it harder to consider the future impacts of climate change when officials consider whether a species is threatened and should be placed on the endangered species list. It also introduces a factor the existing law never did, intended to calculate the economic impact of protecting a species. Indeed, the Endangered Species Act had expressly forbidden agencies from taking economic considerations into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a call with reporters, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra promised he’d take the federal government to court over this. He added that California goes to court against the Trump administration only when state officials deem it “necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Becerra may not sue over each of Trump’s actions, it certainly \u003cem>seems\u003c/em> that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than 24 hours after he promised legal action over endangered species, Becerra gathered reporters again to announce that California is suing the Trump administration over another environmental law, a rollback of Obama-era rules to reduce pollution from power plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest suit over the Clean Power Plan raises to 27 the number of times that Becerra has sued the Trump administration over an environmental issue. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\">tracker\u003c/a> by the nonprofit, nonpartisan news site CalMatters keeps a running tally. That’s almost as many as all other lawsuits he’s filed against the administration, at least 29 in total, on subjects ranging from immigration to health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1946566\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 541px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1946566 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS22958_GettyImages-584444536-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS22958_GettyImages-584444536-sfi.jpg 541w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS22958_GettyImages-584444536-sfi-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Obama’s policy mandated that states curb pollution from power plants and aimed to reduce U.S. power sector emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, but it also allowed states to carve out their own plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler often criticized the Obama policy, saying it would require Americans pay more for energy. Under his plan, the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the agency will still regulate emissions by drastically lowering the bar to about a percent by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are top takeaways about how the new federal policies will affect California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scientists Are Concerned About Biodiversity and Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media focus lots of attention on megafauna— the grizzlies, the bald eagles, the California condor. But in this state, more plants are threatened than animals. And many scientists say their main concern is biodiversity; California has more endangered species than any state except Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California’s old growth forests, for example, the redwoods and Douglas fir are habitat for a lot of threatened critters. Their threatened status extends protections to the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Central Coast, specific \u003ca href=\"https://calscape.org/Arctostaphylos-refugioensis-(Refugio-Manzanita)?srchcr=sc5627ff4e616af\">manzanita\u003c/a> face pressures from wildfire. So the use of climate data becomes very important in accurate analyses of the trees’ status and the threats to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a complete change from the existing law, the Trump administration proposes that agencies conduct economic analyses and release them to the public. At the same time, the administration’s proposal says agencies won’t use that analysis in determining whether to list a species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Will the New Rules Affect California? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California maintains strong environmental laws, but animals don’t care about state boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The endangered grey wolf, for example, walked into California from Oregon. Laws in California protect the wolf, but the animal loses those protections if it walks into another state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, California’s strong emissions laws known as the Clean Power Plan don’t extend into other states. This state is part of a regional grid system, and coal-burning plants operate in neighboring Nevada and Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of California’s land is public. Some of it is managed by the Federal Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service. The military manages others — Camp Pendleton and China Lake Naval Air Station, for example. An endangered species doesn’t know whether it’s on military, state or private land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How a New State Law Might Cover the Gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra promised that California would push back against federal environmental deregulation through any and all means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Legislature is considering a bill, SB 1, under which any federal environmental or worker safety standard in place and effective when President Trump took office would remain enforceable under California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill in the Assembly Appropriations Committee would apply to the Clean Power Plan and the Endangered Species Act. It has passed out of the Senate and must move out of the committee by August 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why All the Lawsuits Now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upcoming presidential election is the reason for the rapid-fire pace of the lawsuits. The Trump administration wants to see all of these legal questions answered by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Democrats beat Trump, the new president may reverse the executive orders. If Trump wins, the administration wants to begin its second term with the legal disputes settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits over the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Power Plan are going to be heard either by the U.S. Supreme Court or by a panel of judges at the D.C. Circuit Court.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Clean Power Plan suit raises the number of times that Becerra has sued the Trump administration over the environment to, at least, 27.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848394,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":887},"headData":{"title":"Atty. Gen. 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Becerra: It Does Seem Like You're Fighting Trump's Environmental Policy At Every Turn","datePublished":"2019-08-19T13:02:15.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:59:54.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Environment","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2019/08/StarkWatt2wayESAChanges.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":272,"path":"/science/1946560/atty-gen-becerra-it-does-seem-like-you-are-fighting-trump-on-the-environment-at-every-turn","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week, the Trump Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101872729/changes-to-endangered-species-act-weaken-wildlife-protections\">weakened\u003c/a> the Endangered Species Act with the broadest changes to the bedrock environmental law in decades.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1946454,science_1946394","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s new rules make it harder to consider the future impacts of climate change when officials consider whether a species is threatened and should be placed on the endangered species list. It also introduces a factor the existing law never did, intended to calculate the economic impact of protecting a species. Indeed, the Endangered Species Act had expressly forbidden agencies from taking economic considerations into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a call with reporters, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra promised he’d take the federal government to court over this. He added that California goes to court against the Trump administration only when state officials deem it “necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Becerra may not sue over each of Trump’s actions, it certainly \u003cem>seems\u003c/em> that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than 24 hours after he promised legal action over endangered species, Becerra gathered reporters again to announce that California is suing the Trump administration over another environmental law, a rollback of Obama-era rules to reduce pollution from power plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest suit over the Clean Power Plan raises to 27 the number of times that Becerra has sued the Trump administration over an environmental issue. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\">tracker\u003c/a> by the nonprofit, nonpartisan news site CalMatters keeps a running tally. That’s almost as many as all other lawsuits he’s filed against the administration, at least 29 in total, on subjects ranging from immigration to health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1946566\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 541px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1946566 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS22958_GettyImages-584444536-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS22958_GettyImages-584444536-sfi.jpg 541w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS22958_GettyImages-584444536-sfi-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Obama’s policy mandated that states curb pollution from power plants and aimed to reduce U.S. power sector emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, but it also allowed states to carve out their own plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler often criticized the Obama policy, saying it would require Americans pay more for energy. Under his plan, the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the agency will still regulate emissions by drastically lowering the bar to about a percent by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are top takeaways about how the new federal policies will affect California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scientists Are Concerned About Biodiversity and Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media focus lots of attention on megafauna— the grizzlies, the bald eagles, the California condor. But in this state, more plants are threatened than animals. And many scientists say their main concern is biodiversity; California has more endangered species than any state except Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California’s old growth forests, for example, the redwoods and Douglas fir are habitat for a lot of threatened critters. Their threatened status extends protections to the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Central Coast, specific \u003ca href=\"https://calscape.org/Arctostaphylos-refugioensis-(Refugio-Manzanita)?srchcr=sc5627ff4e616af\">manzanita\u003c/a> face pressures from wildfire. So the use of climate data becomes very important in accurate analyses of the trees’ status and the threats to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a complete change from the existing law, the Trump administration proposes that agencies conduct economic analyses and release them to the public. At the same time, the administration’s proposal says agencies won’t use that analysis in determining whether to list a species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Will the New Rules Affect California? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California maintains strong environmental laws, but animals don’t care about state boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The endangered grey wolf, for example, walked into California from Oregon. Laws in California protect the wolf, but the animal loses those protections if it walks into another state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, California’s strong emissions laws known as the Clean Power Plan don’t extend into other states. This state is part of a regional grid system, and coal-burning plants operate in neighboring Nevada and Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of California’s land is public. Some of it is managed by the Federal Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service. The military manages others — Camp Pendleton and China Lake Naval Air Station, for example. An endangered species doesn’t know whether it’s on military, state or private land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How a New State Law Might Cover the Gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra promised that California would push back against federal environmental deregulation through any and all means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Legislature is considering a bill, SB 1, under which any federal environmental or worker safety standard in place and effective when President Trump took office would remain enforceable under California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill in the Assembly Appropriations Committee would apply to the Clean Power Plan and the Endangered Species Act. It has passed out of the Senate and must move out of the committee by August 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why All the Lawsuits Now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upcoming presidential election is the reason for the rapid-fire pace of the lawsuits. The Trump administration wants to see all of these legal questions answered by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Democrats beat Trump, the new president may reverse the executive orders. If Trump wins, the administration wants to begin its second term with the legal disputes settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits over the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Power Plan are going to be heard either by the U.S. Supreme Court or by a panel of judges at the D.C. Circuit Court.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1946560/atty-gen-becerra-it-does-seem-like-you-are-fighting-trump-on-the-environment-at-every-turn","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_2874","science_31","science_33","science_35","science_39","science_40","science_98","science_3730"],"tags":["science_3841","science_1119","science_3370","science_3830"],"featImg":"science_1946564","label":"source_science_1946560"},"science_1946451":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1946451","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1946451","score":null,"sort":[1565787719000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-defends-wolves-argues-against-feds-removing-protections","title":"California Defends Wolves, Argues Against Feds Removing Protections","publishDate":1565787719,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Defends Wolves, Argues Against Feds Removing Protections | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>California is pushing back on the federal government’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-03-15/pdf/2019-04420.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal\u003c/a> to delist wolves from the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 states. This step would remove wolves’ federal protections, transferring decisions about wolf management to individual states and tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, announced in March, frames the wolves’ current status as “one of the greatest comebacks in conservation history.” But environmentalists and now the California Fish and Game Commission have argued that, to make a full recovery, wolves still need Endangered Species Act protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 15, the Commission sent a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/CFGC-Wolf-Delisting-letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, strongly opposing the proposed delisting. The letter, signed by president Eric Sklar, states the ruling would end recovery efforts prematurely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The limited gray wolf return to some of the states that will be impacted by the proposed rule, including California, has been for only a brief period in the thousands of years history of gray wolf as a species,” states Sklar, “and most of the suitable habitat in these states has not yet been repopulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1946475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1946475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-800x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-800x353.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-768x338.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-1020x449.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-1200x529.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from a letter addressed to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from the California Fish and Game Commission\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just this week, California also announced its intent to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946394/trump-announces-sweeping-changes-to-endangered-species-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overhaul\u003c/a> of the Endangered Species Act. If the changes are implemented, federal agencies would be able to publicly share the economic impact of protecting endangered species. Threatened species, considered by biologists on their way to being critically endangered, would not receive the same protections as endangered species, as they do currently. The review process for actions taken by agencies affecting listed species would simplify. It is unclear how wolves would be affected by these modifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where Wolves Should Roam\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though California wolves would retain their listing in the state’s Endangered Species Act no matter the ruling, the Commission’s stance against delisting is not purely symbolic. The ruling would likely affect the state’s wolf population by restricting the numbers of wolves that enter from other states. After the last wolf in California was shot in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/02/06/california%e2%80%99s-gray-wolves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california%2525e2%252580%252599s-gray-wolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1924\u003c/a>, wolves only started reappearing in the state in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/02/lone-wolf%E2%80%99s-historic-trek-provokes-questions-and-concerns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011\u003c/a>, when one wandered over the Oregon border. Biologists say that California’s future wolf population will depend on expanding from other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to see West Coast states that have an interest in wolf recovery speaking out about … the proposal that would undermine wolf recovery in their states,” said Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “California is a good example of why their proposal doesn’t make sense, because wolves are definitely not recovered in California.” [pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation='Eric Sklar, California Fish and Game Commission']‘Discounting California and other vital, historic habitats ignores science and the law.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Determining the success of wolf recovery hinges on a discussion of where the predator should roam. Some controversy does exist over wolves’ historical range. In the proposal, the USFWS chooses to define ‘historic range’ as most of the continental United States except western California, southwestern Arizona, and the southeast United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=department-of-the-interior-celebrates-recovery-of-the-gray-wolf-with-&_ID=36378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6,000\u003c/a> wolves now live in the continental United States, only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946121/three-new-wolf-pups-sighted-in-northeast-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one pack\u003c/a> frequents California. Most people agree that populations have recovered in the northern Rocky Mountains and western Great Lakes, but the Commission points out that this range is only a tiny fraction of both the wolves’ historic range and the habitat scientists consider suitable. It calls the proposal’s definition of range “nonsensical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Discounting California and other vital, historic habitats ignores science and the law,” the letter states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Relying on Outdated Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter, Sklar says that much of the rule bases its analysis of the extent of recovery on “decades-old science.” The Commission argues that the criteria the USFWS uses to measure recovery are based on outdated science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peer reviewers of the proposal echoed this sentiment, adding that the cited studies were chosen haphazardly. In many cases, the reviewer wrote, “results in the best journals (ranked independently on a worldwide scale of impact factors) were ignored or overlooked, in favor of non-peer-reviewed interpretations or results from lower ranked journals.” The same reviewer notes that “in a few cases, the stronger evidence was paid for by the USFWS or was co-authored by USFWS staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s Next For Wolves?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, perhaps, no more polarizing endangered species than the gray wolf. Even as environmentalists celebrate the return of wolves, some ranchers view the predators as a threat to their livestock and livelihoods. The federal proposal chooses largely to ignore the threat anti-wolf communities may pose to wolf populations, stating that the motivations behind such attitudes are poorly understood. But the California Fish and Game Commission says that the ability of public opinion to impact wolf populations has been studied and should be considered more substantially in the delisting proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since targeted extirpation of the species was one of the main factors that led to gray wolf’s near extinction in the U.S.,” the letter argues, “it behooves USFWS to conduct a thorough analysis to demonstrate that such attitudes will not become a detriment to the future of the species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartl says he’s seen this happen before, when wolves were delisted in the Great Lakes in \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/476/tab-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011\u003c/a> and public tolerance for them declined. When wolves are prematurely delisted, Hartl warns, “it creates the perception, especially in rural areas, that it’s okay to shoot a wolf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USFWS will now review the public comments on its proposal. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">750,000\u003c/a> comments are currently listed on the USFWS website. Some environmental groups believe the number may balloon to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/7/13/20690727/endangered-species-list-2019-gray-wolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 2 million\u003c/a> once the mail-in comments are counted. Hartl expects the USFWS will take at least a year to review all substantive comments, and anticipates a final decision in fall 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration also proposed delisting the gray wolf in 2013, and faced a similarly extensive comment period. The ruling was largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/pdf/Gray-Wolf-Proposed-Delisting-FAQs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abandoned\u003c/a>, though people disagree why; USFWS cites logistics, and environmentalists say the proposal languished in the face of inescapable facts and public outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a letter to the federal government, the California Fish and Game Commission argues that removing wolves from the Endangered Species Act is both premature and based on outdated science.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848401,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1079},"headData":{"title":"California Defends Wolves, Argues Against Feds Removing Protections | KQED","description":"In a letter to the federal government, the California Fish and Game Commission argues that removing wolves from the Endangered Species Act is both premature and based on outdated science.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"California Defends Wolves, Argues Against Feds Removing Protections","datePublished":"2019-08-14T13:01:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T01:00:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/1946451/california-defends-wolves-argues-against-feds-removing-protections","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California is pushing back on the federal government’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-03-15/pdf/2019-04420.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal\u003c/a> to delist wolves from the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 states. This step would remove wolves’ federal protections, transferring decisions about wolf management to individual states and tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, announced in March, frames the wolves’ current status as “one of the greatest comebacks in conservation history.” But environmentalists and now the California Fish and Game Commission have argued that, to make a full recovery, wolves still need Endangered Species Act protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 15, the Commission sent a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/CFGC-Wolf-Delisting-letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, strongly opposing the proposed delisting. The letter, signed by president Eric Sklar, states the ruling would end recovery efforts prematurely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The limited gray wolf return to some of the states that will be impacted by the proposed rule, including California, has been for only a brief period in the thousands of years history of gray wolf as a species,” states Sklar, “and most of the suitable habitat in these states has not yet been repopulated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1946475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1946475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-800x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-800x353.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-160x71.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-768x338.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-1020x449.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn-1200x529.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/KQED_Torn.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from a letter addressed to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from the California Fish and Game Commission\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just this week, California also announced its intent to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946394/trump-announces-sweeping-changes-to-endangered-species-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overhaul\u003c/a> of the Endangered Species Act. If the changes are implemented, federal agencies would be able to publicly share the economic impact of protecting endangered species. Threatened species, considered by biologists on their way to being critically endangered, would not receive the same protections as endangered species, as they do currently. The review process for actions taken by agencies affecting listed species would simplify. It is unclear how wolves would be affected by these modifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where Wolves Should Roam\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though California wolves would retain their listing in the state’s Endangered Species Act no matter the ruling, the Commission’s stance against delisting is not purely symbolic. The ruling would likely affect the state’s wolf population by restricting the numbers of wolves that enter from other states. After the last wolf in California was shot in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/02/06/california%e2%80%99s-gray-wolves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california%2525e2%252580%252599s-gray-wolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1924\u003c/a>, wolves only started reappearing in the state in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/02/lone-wolf%E2%80%99s-historic-trek-provokes-questions-and-concerns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011\u003c/a>, when one wandered over the Oregon border. Biologists say that California’s future wolf population will depend on expanding from other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to see West Coast states that have an interest in wolf recovery speaking out about … the proposal that would undermine wolf recovery in their states,” said Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “California is a good example of why their proposal doesn’t make sense, because wolves are definitely not recovered in California.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Discounting California and other vital, historic habitats ignores science and the law.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Eric Sklar, California Fish and Game Commission","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Determining the success of wolf recovery hinges on a discussion of where the predator should roam. Some controversy does exist over wolves’ historical range. In the proposal, the USFWS chooses to define ‘historic range’ as most of the continental United States except western California, southwestern Arizona, and the southeast United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=department-of-the-interior-celebrates-recovery-of-the-gray-wolf-with-&_ID=36378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6,000\u003c/a> wolves now live in the continental United States, only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946121/three-new-wolf-pups-sighted-in-northeast-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one pack\u003c/a> frequents California. Most people agree that populations have recovered in the northern Rocky Mountains and western Great Lakes, but the Commission points out that this range is only a tiny fraction of both the wolves’ historic range and the habitat scientists consider suitable. It calls the proposal’s definition of range “nonsensical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Discounting California and other vital, historic habitats ignores science and the law,” the letter states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Relying on Outdated Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter, Sklar says that much of the rule bases its analysis of the extent of recovery on “decades-old science.” The Commission argues that the criteria the USFWS uses to measure recovery are based on outdated science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peer reviewers of the proposal echoed this sentiment, adding that the cited studies were chosen haphazardly. In many cases, the reviewer wrote, “results in the best journals (ranked independently on a worldwide scale of impact factors) were ignored or overlooked, in favor of non-peer-reviewed interpretations or results from lower ranked journals.” The same reviewer notes that “in a few cases, the stronger evidence was paid for by the USFWS or was co-authored by USFWS staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s Next For Wolves?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, perhaps, no more polarizing endangered species than the gray wolf. Even as environmentalists celebrate the return of wolves, some ranchers view the predators as a threat to their livestock and livelihoods. The federal proposal chooses largely to ignore the threat anti-wolf communities may pose to wolf populations, stating that the motivations behind such attitudes are poorly understood. But the California Fish and Game Commission says that the ability of public opinion to impact wolf populations has been studied and should be considered more substantially in the delisting proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since targeted extirpation of the species was one of the main factors that led to gray wolf’s near extinction in the U.S.,” the letter argues, “it behooves USFWS to conduct a thorough analysis to demonstrate that such attitudes will not become a detriment to the future of the species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartl says he’s seen this happen before, when wolves were delisted in the Great Lakes in \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/476/tab-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011\u003c/a> and public tolerance for them declined. When wolves are prematurely delisted, Hartl warns, “it creates the perception, especially in rural areas, that it’s okay to shoot a wolf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USFWS will now review the public comments on its proposal. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">750,000\u003c/a> comments are currently listed on the USFWS website. Some environmental groups believe the number may balloon to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/7/13/20690727/endangered-species-list-2019-gray-wolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 2 million\u003c/a> once the mail-in comments are counted. Hartl expects the USFWS will take at least a year to review all substantive comments, and anticipates a final decision in fall 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration also proposed delisting the gray wolf in 2013, and faced a similarly extensive comment period. The ruling was largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/pdf/Gray-Wolf-Proposed-Delisting-FAQs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abandoned\u003c/a>, though people disagree why; USFWS cites logistics, and environmentalists say the proposal languished in the face of inescapable facts and public outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1946451/california-defends-wolves-argues-against-feds-removing-protections","authors":["11615"],"categories":["science_2874","science_40"],"tags":["science_1119","science_3370","science_3514","science_3649"],"featImg":"science_1946494","label":"science"},"science_1946394":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1946394","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1946394","score":null,"sort":[1565633440000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trump-announces-sweeping-changes-to-endangered-species-act","title":"California Attorney General Promises Suit Over Endangered Species Rollback","publishDate":1565633440,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Attorney General Promises Suit Over Endangered Species Rollback | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Within hours of the Trump administration’s announcement that it is rolling back enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra vowed to mount a rigorous legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a hastily organized call with reporters, Becerra said the rollbacks put California’s threatened species at greater risk of extinction and promised to sue.[aside postID=science_1939114,science_1946357]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t look to pick a fight every time this administration decides to take an action,” he said. “But we challenge these actions by this administration because it is necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He charged that the administration’s decision is meant to “boost the profits of companies that are already putting these species at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, allowing the government to put an economic cost on saving a species and and make it harder to consider climate change in evaluating the status of a species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and other administration officials \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/7d4ce27833384f548eaf76d395e6dd53\">contend\u003c/a> the changes improve efficiency of oversight while protecting rare species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we can to ensure it remains effective in achieving its ultimate goal — recovery of our rarest species,” Bernhardt said in a statement. “An effectively administered Act ensures more resources can go where they will do the most good: on-the-ground conservation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the administration announced its intention to rollback protections provided by the law and published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/regulation-revisions.html\">draft\u003c/a> proposal. Today, it announced the final rule change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s plan will go into effect 30 days after being published in the federal register, barring a legal challenge to prevent it. The New York Times is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html\">reporting\u003c/a> that the administration could publish the new rules in the federal register as soon as this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Defenders of Wildlife President Jamie Rappaport Clark joined Becerra in promising a swift lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the press call, Healey said relaxing the regulations is illegal because the changes violate the text and purpose of the Endangered Species Act. She said the changes are “arbitrary, capricious, and ignore the science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the administration failed to conduct a full study of how the changes would impact the environment and didn’t allow for public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra said the rollbacks would require that the Fish and Wildlife Service craft individualized rules for each species. A move that, he said, would tangle California’s 35 threatened animals and 98 plant species in unnecessary red tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These species are categorized as threatened, and that’s based on science and data,” Becerra said. “But today’s rules throw out science and data. Instead of using science and data they inject economic consideration into what should only be a science-driven decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules water down protections for animals that are at risk of becoming endangered, or are designated as threatened, and make it easier to move a species off the endangered species list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the species that could be affected is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762685/once-nearly-dead-as-the-dodo-california-condor-comeback-reaches-1000-chicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California condor\u003c/a>, North America’s largest bird that once flew over most of California’s coastal mountains. After years of being critically endangered, the bird has made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762685/once-nearly-dead-as-the-dodo-california-condor-comeback-reaches-1000-chicks\">comeback\u003c/a> in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/marine-mammals/southern-sea-otter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">southern sea otter\u003c/a>, the smallest marine mammal in North America, is listed as threatened. The otters live along the coast from San Mateo County in the north to Santa Barbara in the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California species that could be affected are the threatened \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489595\">northern\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489595\">spotted\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489595\">owl\u003c/a> — its habitat has declined as a result of timber harvesting and land development — and the endangered \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/o/olive-ridley-sea-turtle/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olive Ridley sea turtle\u003c/a>, as well as the threatened \u003ca href=\"http://www.iws.org/species_sage_sparrow.html\">San Clemente bell sparrow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping save scores of animals and plants from extinction since President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1973, including the bald eagle, California condor and grizzly bear. The Endangered Species Act currently protects more than 1,600 species in the United States and its territories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s changes include allowing economic cost to be taken into account as the federal government weighs protecting a struggling species, although the law stipulates that economic costs not be a factor in deciding whether to protect an animal. That prohibition was meant to ensure that the logging industry, for example, would not be able to push to block protections for a forest-dwelling animal on economic grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Frazer, an assistant director at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told reporters that the government would adhere to the law by disclosing the costs to the public, but officials wouldn’t factor economic considerations into their own decision making about protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing in here in my view is a radical change for how we have been consulting and listing species for the last decade or so,” Frazer said. Instead, he said, it brings “more transparency and certainty to the public about the way we’ll carry out our job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brett Hartl, a government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity conservation group, contended any such price tag would be inflated, and “an invitation for political interference” in the federal government’s decision whether to save a species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be really naive and cynical and disingenuous to pretend” otherwise, Hartl said. “That’s the reason that Congress way back…prohibited the Service from doing that,” Hartl said. “It’s a science question: Is a species going extinct, yes or no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other changes include ending blanket protections for species newly listed as threatened and a revision could block officials from considering the impact on wildlife from climate change, a major and growing threat to many species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the nearly half-century old act has been overwhelmingly successful in saving animals and plants that are listed as endangered, battles over some of the listings have been years-long and legend, pitting northern spotted owls, snail darters and other creatures and their protectors in court and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/12fc9368c0884087a92aafa1dd757042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political fights\u003c/a> with industries, local opponents and others. Republican lawmakers have pushed for years to change the Endangered Species Act itself, in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican who leads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Monday’s changes in enforcement to the act were “a good start,” but said he would continue working to change the act itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats blasted the changes, and conservationists promised a court fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulations “take a wrecking ball to one of our oldest and most effective environmental laws, the Endangered Species Act,” said Sen. Tom Udall, a New Mexico Democrat, in a statement. “As we have seen time and time again, no environmental protection — no matter how effective or popular — is safe from this administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 10 attorneys general joined conservation groups in protesting an early draft of the changes, saying they put more wildlife at greater risk of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This effort to gut protections for endangered and threatened species has the same two features of most Trump administration actions: it’s a gift to industry, and it’s illegal,” said Drew Caputo, a vice president of litigation for the conservation advocacy group Earthjustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll see the Trump administration in court about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Riley, legal director of the nature program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, says the listing of species as threatened or endangered must be based on sound science and called the administration’s decision “appalling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in the midst of an extinction crisis,” she said, referring to the impact of climate change. “Rather than take steps to strengthen protections for these species, the Trump Administration is doing the opposite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A United Nations report warned in May that more than 1 million plants and animals globally face extinction, some within decades, owning to human development, climate change and other threats. The report called the rate of species loss a record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ellen Knickmeyer, of the Associated Press, contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848412,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1409},"headData":{"title":"California Attorney General Promises Suit Over Endangered Species Rollback | KQED","description":"The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"California Attorney General Promises Suit Over Endangered Species Rollback","datePublished":"2019-08-12T18:10:40.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T01:00:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Animals","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/08/282704BecerraEndangeredSpeciesAct.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":62,"path":"/science/1946394/trump-announces-sweeping-changes-to-endangered-species-act","audioDuration":62000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Within hours of the Trump administration’s announcement that it is rolling back enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra vowed to mount a rigorous legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a hastily organized call with reporters, Becerra said the rollbacks put California’s threatened species at greater risk of extinction and promised to sue.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1939114,science_1946357","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t look to pick a fight every time this administration decides to take an action,” he said. “But we challenge these actions by this administration because it is necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He charged that the administration’s decision is meant to “boost the profits of companies that are already putting these species at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, allowing the government to put an economic cost on saving a species and and make it harder to consider climate change in evaluating the status of a species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and other administration officials \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/7d4ce27833384f548eaf76d395e6dd53\">contend\u003c/a> the changes improve efficiency of oversight while protecting rare species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we can to ensure it remains effective in achieving its ultimate goal — recovery of our rarest species,” Bernhardt said in a statement. “An effectively administered Act ensures more resources can go where they will do the most good: on-the-ground conservation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the administration announced its intention to rollback protections provided by the law and published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/regulation-revisions.html\">draft\u003c/a> proposal. Today, it announced the final rule change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s plan will go into effect 30 days after being published in the federal register, barring a legal challenge to prevent it. The New York Times is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html\">reporting\u003c/a> that the administration could publish the new rules in the federal register as soon as this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Defenders of Wildlife President Jamie Rappaport Clark joined Becerra in promising a swift lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the press call, Healey said relaxing the regulations is illegal because the changes violate the text and purpose of the Endangered Species Act. She said the changes are “arbitrary, capricious, and ignore the science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the administration failed to conduct a full study of how the changes would impact the environment and didn’t allow for public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra said the rollbacks would require that the Fish and Wildlife Service craft individualized rules for each species. A move that, he said, would tangle California’s 35 threatened animals and 98 plant species in unnecessary red tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These species are categorized as threatened, and that’s based on science and data,” Becerra said. “But today’s rules throw out science and data. Instead of using science and data they inject economic consideration into what should only be a science-driven decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules water down protections for animals that are at risk of becoming endangered, or are designated as threatened, and make it easier to move a species off the endangered species list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the species that could be affected is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762685/once-nearly-dead-as-the-dodo-california-condor-comeback-reaches-1000-chicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California condor\u003c/a>, North America’s largest bird that once flew over most of California’s coastal mountains. After years of being critically endangered, the bird has made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762685/once-nearly-dead-as-the-dodo-california-condor-comeback-reaches-1000-chicks\">comeback\u003c/a> in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/marine-mammals/southern-sea-otter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">southern sea otter\u003c/a>, the smallest marine mammal in North America, is listed as threatened. The otters live along the coast from San Mateo County in the north to Santa Barbara in the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California species that could be affected are the threatened \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489595\">northern\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489595\">spotted\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489595\">owl\u003c/a> — its habitat has declined as a result of timber harvesting and land development — and the endangered \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/o/olive-ridley-sea-turtle/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olive Ridley sea turtle\u003c/a>, as well as the threatened \u003ca href=\"http://www.iws.org/species_sage_sparrow.html\">San Clemente bell sparrow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping save scores of animals and plants from extinction since President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1973, including the bald eagle, California condor and grizzly bear. The Endangered Species Act currently protects more than 1,600 species in the United States and its territories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s changes include allowing economic cost to be taken into account as the federal government weighs protecting a struggling species, although the law stipulates that economic costs not be a factor in deciding whether to protect an animal. That prohibition was meant to ensure that the logging industry, for example, would not be able to push to block protections for a forest-dwelling animal on economic grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Frazer, an assistant director at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told reporters that the government would adhere to the law by disclosing the costs to the public, but officials wouldn’t factor economic considerations into their own decision making about protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing in here in my view is a radical change for how we have been consulting and listing species for the last decade or so,” Frazer said. Instead, he said, it brings “more transparency and certainty to the public about the way we’ll carry out our job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brett Hartl, a government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity conservation group, contended any such price tag would be inflated, and “an invitation for political interference” in the federal government’s decision whether to save a species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be really naive and cynical and disingenuous to pretend” otherwise, Hartl said. “That’s the reason that Congress way back…prohibited the Service from doing that,” Hartl said. “It’s a science question: Is a species going extinct, yes or no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other changes include ending blanket protections for species newly listed as threatened and a revision could block officials from considering the impact on wildlife from climate change, a major and growing threat to many species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the nearly half-century old act has been overwhelmingly successful in saving animals and plants that are listed as endangered, battles over some of the listings have been years-long and legend, pitting northern spotted owls, snail darters and other creatures and their protectors in court and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/12fc9368c0884087a92aafa1dd757042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political fights\u003c/a> with industries, local opponents and others. Republican lawmakers have pushed for years to change the Endangered Species Act itself, in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican who leads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Monday’s changes in enforcement to the act were “a good start,” but said he would continue working to change the act itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats blasted the changes, and conservationists promised a court fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulations “take a wrecking ball to one of our oldest and most effective environmental laws, the Endangered Species Act,” said Sen. Tom Udall, a New Mexico Democrat, in a statement. “As we have seen time and time again, no environmental protection — no matter how effective or popular — is safe from this administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 10 attorneys general joined conservation groups in protesting an early draft of the changes, saying they put more wildlife at greater risk of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This effort to gut protections for endangered and threatened species has the same two features of most Trump administration actions: it’s a gift to industry, and it’s illegal,” said Drew Caputo, a vice president of litigation for the conservation advocacy group Earthjustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll see the Trump administration in court about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Riley, legal director of the nature program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, says the listing of species as threatened or endangered must be based on sound science and called the administration’s decision “appalling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in the midst of an extinction crisis,” she said, referring to the impact of climate change. “Rather than take steps to strengthen protections for these species, the Trump Administration is doing the opposite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A United Nations report warned in May that more than 1 million plants and animals globally face extinction, some within decades, owning to human development, climate change and other threats. The report called the rate of species loss a record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ellen Knickmeyer, of the Associated Press, contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1946394/trump-announces-sweeping-changes-to-endangered-species-act","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_1119","science_3322","science_3649"],"featImg":"science_1946396","label":"source_science_1946394"},"science_1946121":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1946121","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1946121","score":null,"sort":[1565115196000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"three-new-wolf-pups-sighted-in-northeast-california","title":"VIDEO: Three New Wolf Pups Sighted in Northeast California","publishDate":1565115196,"format":"aside","headTitle":"VIDEO: Three New Wolf Pups Sighted in Northeast California | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>https://youtu.be/XhBOTp1IyI0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s only known wolf pack has at least three new pups, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=171100&inline\">report\u003c/a> by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Trail cameras in Lassen County recorded the pups, as well as two or three adult wolves, in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grey wolves first came to California in this century. On December 28, 2011, a single grey wolf with a radio collar crossed the Oregon/California border into California history. Named OR-7, the wolf was the first confirmed grey wolf in the state since 1924, when the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/02/06/california%e2%80%99s-gray-wolves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california%2525e2%252580%252599s-gray-wolves\">last known wolf\u003c/a> in California was trapped and killed in Lassen County. OR-7 became famous — and for some, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/02/lone-wolf%e2%80%99s-historic-trek-provokes-questions-and-concerns/\">notorious\u003c/a> — as people debated what the return of the predators would mean for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kent Laudon, a wolf specialist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who has studied the animals for 22 years, says he recognizes that wolves can cause challenges for people who own livestock. He tries hard to work with producers to find solutions like \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.org/improvements-to-fladry/\">fladry fencing\u003c/a> or behavioral management of herds, he says, so that wolves and people can coexist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know wolves pretty well,” he said, “but then the producer knows their cattle pretty well… is there something in [the agricultural operation] that we can do to deter conflict? And that serves everybody well. And so what’s good for people, then, is… good for wolves as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having wolves return to California is one of the most significant environmental developments in conservation in this state,” said Amaroq Weiss, an advocate for West Coast wolves with the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would seek\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1939114/u-s-moves-to-take-wolf-off-endangered-list-but-california-protections-still-strong\"> to delist\u003c/a> grey wolves as an endangered species in most of the lower 48 states. During the proposal’s comment period which ended July 15, the proposal drew opposition from 100 scientists, members of Congress, and, according to environmental groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2019/07/18-million-americans-speak-out-against-stripping-federal-protections-wolves\">1.8 million\u003c/a> comments from members of the public, though numbers on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097-0001\">actual proposal\u003c/a> are lower, possibly due to duplicate comments being removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although wolves remain protected under California’s Endangered Species Act, Weiss says maintaining federal endangered status is crucial, since many of California’s wolves come from other states that might not have similar protection at the state level.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California's only wolf pack is known as the Lassen pack; trail cameras spotted at least three new pups. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848430,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":404},"headData":{"title":"VIDEO: Three New Wolf Pups Sighted in Northeast California | KQED","description":"California's only wolf pack is known as the Lassen pack; trail cameras spotted at least three new pups. 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Trail cameras in Lassen County recorded the pups, as well as two or three adult wolves, in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grey wolves first came to California in this century. On December 28, 2011, a single grey wolf with a radio collar crossed the Oregon/California border into California history. Named OR-7, the wolf was the first confirmed grey wolf in the state since 1924, when the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/02/06/california%e2%80%99s-gray-wolves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california%2525e2%252580%252599s-gray-wolves\">last known wolf\u003c/a> in California was trapped and killed in Lassen County. OR-7 became famous — and for some, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/02/lone-wolf%e2%80%99s-historic-trek-provokes-questions-and-concerns/\">notorious\u003c/a> — as people debated what the return of the predators would mean for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kent Laudon, a wolf specialist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who has studied the animals for 22 years, says he recognizes that wolves can cause challenges for people who own livestock. He tries hard to work with producers to find solutions like \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.org/improvements-to-fladry/\">fladry fencing\u003c/a> or behavioral management of herds, he says, so that wolves and people can coexist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know wolves pretty well,” he said, “but then the producer knows their cattle pretty well… is there something in [the agricultural operation] that we can do to deter conflict? And that serves everybody well. And so what’s good for people, then, is… good for wolves as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having wolves return to California is one of the most significant environmental developments in conservation in this state,” said Amaroq Weiss, an advocate for West Coast wolves with the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would seek\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1939114/u-s-moves-to-take-wolf-off-endangered-list-but-california-protections-still-strong\"> to delist\u003c/a> grey wolves as an endangered species in most of the lower 48 states. During the proposal’s comment period which ended July 15, the proposal drew opposition from 100 scientists, members of Congress, and, according to environmental groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2019/07/18-million-americans-speak-out-against-stripping-federal-protections-wolves\">1.8 million\u003c/a> comments from members of the public, though numbers on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097-0001\">actual proposal\u003c/a> are lower, possibly due to duplicate comments being removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although wolves remain protected under California’s Endangered Species Act, Weiss says maintaining federal endangered status is crucial, since many of California’s wolves come from other states that might not have similar protection at the state level.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1946121/three-new-wolf-pups-sighted-in-northeast-california","authors":["11615"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_1119","science_3370","science_3832"],"featImg":"science_1946240","label":"science"},"science_1945931":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1945931","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1945931","score":null,"sort":[1564682140000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"environmental-group-says-stop-killing-beavers-trump-administration-says-ok","title":"Environmental Group Says Stop Killing Beavers, Trump Administration Says OK","publishDate":1564682140,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Environmental Group Says Stop Killing Beavers, Trump Administration Says OK | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>The Trump administration has feuded with California over the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732523/trump-administrations-bid-to-scuttle-californias-sanctuary-laws-falls-flat-in-court\">sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, its stricter standards on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945609/california-and-carmakers-reach-clean-vehicle-agreement-rebuking-trump-administration\">tailpipe emissions\u003c/a>, and the president’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-lawsuit-trump-national-emergency-20190215-story.html\">declaration\u003c/a> of a national emergency at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But apparently there’s one dispute, involving a certain fur-bearing mammal, that the federal government apparently wants no part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threatened with legal action by an environmental group, the Wildlife Services section of the U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/legal-action-forces-trump-administration-curb-killing-california-beavers-2019-07-30/\">has agreed\u003c/a> to stop killing beavers, at least temporarily, in more than 11,000 miles of river throughout California. The group, the Center for Biological Diversity, said the eradication of the beavers was putting the government out of compliance with the federal Endangered Species Act because their removal is harming other animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1945935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1945935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-800x1035.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-800x1035.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-160x207.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-768x994.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California.png 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildlife Services has agreed to stop killing beavers and removing their dams from all areas highlighted with purple, red, green, and brown lines. \u003ccite>(Center for Biological Diversity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, as part of its ongoing mission to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/SA_Program_Overview\">reduce conflicts\u003c/a> between wildlife and people, Wildlife Services killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/pdr/?file=PDR-G_Report&p=2018:INDEX:\">859\u003c/a> beavers around the state. The animals often gnaw on trees people don’t want damaged, and the dams they build can cause roadway flooding. While the agency maintains that 96% of all the beavers it killed in the past five years were removed due to concerns about harm to infrastructure as well as to human health and safety, the Center for Biological Diversity says that lethal measures aren’t necessary, and that beavers are critical to ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center filed a notice of \u003ca href=\"https://biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/wildlife_services/pdfs/APHIS-WS-California-Beaver-NOI-withTable.pdf\">intent to sue\u003c/a> Wildlife Services in May, arguing that current practices violate Section 7 of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/section-7.html\">Endangered Species Act\u003c/a>, which requires federal agencies to not only protect certain species but also avoid actions which threaten their critical habitats. Although beavers themselves are not endangered, 10 species of salmon, as well as the Oregon spotted frog, Southwestern willow flycatcher and tidewater goby all live in environments created when beavers build dams, slowing the flow of rivers and creating deep pools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a July 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/wildlife_services/pdfs/20190729-USDA-WS-response-letter-to-Center.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> sent to the Center for Biological Diversity, Wildlife Services said it would stop killing beavers and removing dams in those habitats containing endangered species, except where public safety is at stake, and pending consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service over the effects of eradicating beavers on the other species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collette Adkins, biologist and senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, says she expects the restrictions to be permanent. If they are lifted, she says, the group is likely to carry through with its lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really baffles me as to why Wildlife Services is killing beavers in areas that really are … natural areas where endangered wildlife occur,” she said. “So the commitments we got from the agency I think are just real common sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adkins also says that Wildlife Services’ approach to managing beavers is unreasonably extreme, and that many of the hazards or annoyances they cause can be mitigated in nonlethal ways. Unwanted tree damage, for example, can be prevented by covering tree trunks with chicken wire, and flow devices can be inserted into rivers to prevent large-scale flooding, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Wildlife Services said the agency had no further comment beyond what was contained in the letter to the Center for Biological Diversity, which was addressed to Adkins. Wildlife Services “takes its ESA [Endangered Species Act] obligations, as well as public input, very seriously,” wrote the agency’s State Director Dennis Orthmeyer. “I see that you have stated that your client, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), is contemplating filing a lawsuit. I hope that this letter will convince you otherwise. If you or CBD has any additional concerns, I would be happy to engage in further discussions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over beavers in California represents a longstanding disagreement between the CBD and Wildlife Services. Adkins says the group is “frustrated” by the scale of Wildlife Services’ animal eradication. In 2018 alone, Wildlife Services killed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/pdr/?file=PDR-G_Report&p=2018:INDEX:\">2.7 million\u003c/a> animals nationwide, 1.2 million of which were invasive species. In November 2017, the CBD filed another intent to sue over the agency’s practices in Oregon, also citing violations of Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. Last year, Wildlife Services agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/oregon-beavers-01-10-2018.php\">stop hunting\u003c/a> beavers, river otter, muskrat and mink in all of Oregon, pending a review of the effect of their removal on endangered fish; to date, Wildlife Services has still not completed its review, and hunting has not resumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A branch of the USDA has agreed to stop killing California beavers, at least temporarily, in thousands of miles of river habitat, after an environmental group threatened to sue. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848448,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":776},"headData":{"title":"Environmental Group Says Stop Killing Beavers, Trump Administration Says OK | KQED","description":"A branch of the USDA has agreed to stop killing California beavers, at least temporarily, in thousands of miles of river habitat, after an environmental group threatened to sue. 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The group, the Center for Biological Diversity, said the eradication of the beavers was putting the government out of compliance with the federal Endangered Species Act because their removal is harming other animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1945935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1945935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-800x1035.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-800x1035.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-160x207.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California-768x994.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/Beavers-in-California.png 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildlife Services has agreed to stop killing beavers and removing their dams from all areas highlighted with purple, red, green, and brown lines. \u003ccite>(Center for Biological Diversity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, as part of its ongoing mission to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/SA_Program_Overview\">reduce conflicts\u003c/a> between wildlife and people, Wildlife Services killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/pdr/?file=PDR-G_Report&p=2018:INDEX:\">859\u003c/a> beavers around the state. The animals often gnaw on trees people don’t want damaged, and the dams they build can cause roadway flooding. While the agency maintains that 96% of all the beavers it killed in the past five years were removed due to concerns about harm to infrastructure as well as to human health and safety, the Center for Biological Diversity says that lethal measures aren’t necessary, and that beavers are critical to ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center filed a notice of \u003ca href=\"https://biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/wildlife_services/pdfs/APHIS-WS-California-Beaver-NOI-withTable.pdf\">intent to sue\u003c/a> Wildlife Services in May, arguing that current practices violate Section 7 of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/section-7.html\">Endangered Species Act\u003c/a>, which requires federal agencies to not only protect certain species but also avoid actions which threaten their critical habitats. Although beavers themselves are not endangered, 10 species of salmon, as well as the Oregon spotted frog, Southwestern willow flycatcher and tidewater goby all live in environments created when beavers build dams, slowing the flow of rivers and creating deep pools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a July 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/wildlife_services/pdfs/20190729-USDA-WS-response-letter-to-Center.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> sent to the Center for Biological Diversity, Wildlife Services said it would stop killing beavers and removing dams in those habitats containing endangered species, except where public safety is at stake, and pending consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service over the effects of eradicating beavers on the other species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collette Adkins, biologist and senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, says she expects the restrictions to be permanent. If they are lifted, she says, the group is likely to carry through with its lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really baffles me as to why Wildlife Services is killing beavers in areas that really are … natural areas where endangered wildlife occur,” she said. “So the commitments we got from the agency I think are just real common sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adkins also says that Wildlife Services’ approach to managing beavers is unreasonably extreme, and that many of the hazards or annoyances they cause can be mitigated in nonlethal ways. Unwanted tree damage, for example, can be prevented by covering tree trunks with chicken wire, and flow devices can be inserted into rivers to prevent large-scale flooding, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Wildlife Services said the agency had no further comment beyond what was contained in the letter to the Center for Biological Diversity, which was addressed to Adkins. Wildlife Services “takes its ESA [Endangered Species Act] obligations, as well as public input, very seriously,” wrote the agency’s State Director Dennis Orthmeyer. “I see that you have stated that your client, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), is contemplating filing a lawsuit. I hope that this letter will convince you otherwise. If you or CBD has any additional concerns, I would be happy to engage in further discussions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over beavers in California represents a longstanding disagreement between the CBD and Wildlife Services. Adkins says the group is “frustrated” by the scale of Wildlife Services’ animal eradication. In 2018 alone, Wildlife Services killed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/pdr/?file=PDR-G_Report&p=2018:INDEX:\">2.7 million\u003c/a> animals nationwide, 1.2 million of which were invasive species. In November 2017, the CBD filed another intent to sue over the agency’s practices in Oregon, also citing violations of Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. Last year, Wildlife Services agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/oregon-beavers-01-10-2018.php\">stop hunting\u003c/a> beavers, river otter, muskrat and mink in all of Oregon, pending a review of the effect of their removal on endangered fish; to date, Wildlife Services has still not completed its review, and hunting has not resumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1945931/environmental-group-says-stop-killing-beavers-trump-administration-says-ok","authors":["11615"],"categories":["science_2874"],"tags":["science_1119","science_3514"],"featImg":"science_1945934","label":"science"},"science_1937360":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1937360","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1937360","score":null,"sort":[1548794536000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-rules-gray-wolves-can-stay-in-california","title":"Judge Rules Gray Wolves Can Stay in California","publishDate":1548794536,"format":"image","headTitle":"Judge Rules Gray Wolves Can Stay in California | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A California judge on Monday upheld protection for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1925619/california-comeback-for-gray-wolf-hits-farthest-point-south\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gray wolves\u003c/a> under the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/CESA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endangered Species Act\u003c/a>, rejecting a legal challenge from ranchers and farmers who fear the predators will threaten their livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”4c1NkWlYdcFNareS7hlPT6LnxRx1bUe0″]The judge in San Diego ruled that California was right to list the wolves as endangered in 2014. A lawsuit on behalf of the California Farm Bureau Federation and the California Cattlemen’s Association argued the listing was arbitrary because there are so few wolves in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Opening-Brief-Gray-Wolf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suit\u003c/a>, filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation in January of 2017, claimed the type of gray wolf recently observed in California is a “non-native subspecies,” and challenged whether it had sufficiently established a range in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jim Houston, the Farm Bureau’s manager of legal and governmental affairs, the suit was filed to give ranchers “more flexibility in co-existing with wolves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said in a statement that the group is committed to working with the state to reduce “the burdens of raising livestock in areas with wolves, but we do not expect it to be easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial court ruling held on Monday that the claims presented in the lawsuit to challenge the species’ place on the endangered list were false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1937369\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1937369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gray wolf pup photographed by remote camera in Lassen National Forest in June 2017. \u003ccite>(U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amaroq Weiss is the West Coast Wolf Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, which joined the state in defending the gray wolf’s endangered status. She says this week’s ruling is a major victory for the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so few opportunities in our lifetime to be able to recover a species that we once tried to wipe off the face of the Earth, Weiss says. “That all by itself is just a miracle to have wolves coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also an ecological value of having wolves back in the state, according to Weiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are key players in keeping wild nature healthy. And with our changing climate and changing habitat as a result of climate change and human development,” Weiss says, “It’s all the more important that we have players back on the ground like wolves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss says the state ruling is especially important as the Trump administration is expected to try to strip wolves of their existing federal protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a wolf known as OR-7 made headlines when it traveled south from Oregon — making it the first known wolf in California since 1924. One of OR-7’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Wolf-family-sprouts-in-Lassen-National-Forest-11268765.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offspring\u003c/a> has become the breeding male of the only known wolf pack in California. Two of OR-7’s female pups also ventured into the Golden State, and one has traveled as far south as Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Fish and Game Commission granted the gray wolf protections under the state’s endangered species act, despite opposition from hunting and livestock groups who worry an unchecked population will kill deer and valuable cattle. Under California’s protections, gray wolves can’t be killed or hunted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OR-7 eventually returned to Oregon in 2014 and the wolf has successfully reproduced each year since. It was so-named because he was the seventh wolf captured and collared in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Legal Foundation didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/837292910fdc426eab1ad6171beabc41\">Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED Science contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A San Diego judge on Monday upheld protection for gray wolves under the California's Endangered Species Act, rejecting a legal challenge from ranchers and farmers who fear the predators will threaten their livestock.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848873,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":596},"headData":{"title":"Judge Rules Gray Wolves Can Stay in California | KQED","description":"A San Diego judge on Monday upheld protection for gray wolves under the California's Endangered Species Act, rejecting a legal challenge from ranchers and farmers who fear the predators will threaten their livestock.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Judge Rules Gray Wolves Can Stay in California","datePublished":"2019-01-29T20:42:16.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T01:07:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Animals","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Christopher Weber\u003c/br>Associated Press","path":"/science/1937360/judge-rules-gray-wolves-can-stay-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A California judge on Monday upheld protection for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1925619/california-comeback-for-gray-wolf-hits-farthest-point-south\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gray wolves\u003c/a> under the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/CESA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endangered Species Act\u003c/a>, rejecting a legal challenge from ranchers and farmers who fear the predators will threaten their livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The judge in San Diego ruled that California was right to list the wolves as endangered in 2014. A lawsuit on behalf of the California Farm Bureau Federation and the California Cattlemen’s Association argued the listing was arbitrary because there are so few wolves in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Opening-Brief-Gray-Wolf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suit\u003c/a>, filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation in January of 2017, claimed the type of gray wolf recently observed in California is a “non-native subspecies,” and challenged whether it had sufficiently established a range in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jim Houston, the Farm Bureau’s manager of legal and governmental affairs, the suit was filed to give ranchers “more flexibility in co-existing with wolves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston said in a statement that the group is committed to working with the state to reduce “the burdens of raising livestock in areas with wolves, but we do not expect it to be easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial court ruling held on Monday that the claims presented in the lawsuit to challenge the species’ place on the endangered list were false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1937369\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1937369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/RS25927_wolf-61-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gray wolf pup photographed by remote camera in Lassen National Forest in June 2017. \u003ccite>(U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amaroq Weiss is the West Coast Wolf Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, which joined the state in defending the gray wolf’s endangered status. She says this week’s ruling is a major victory for the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so few opportunities in our lifetime to be able to recover a species that we once tried to wipe off the face of the Earth, Weiss says. “That all by itself is just a miracle to have wolves coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also an ecological value of having wolves back in the state, according to Weiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are key players in keeping wild nature healthy. And with our changing climate and changing habitat as a result of climate change and human development,” Weiss says, “It’s all the more important that we have players back on the ground like wolves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss says the state ruling is especially important as the Trump administration is expected to try to strip wolves of their existing federal protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a wolf known as OR-7 made headlines when it traveled south from Oregon — making it the first known wolf in California since 1924. One of OR-7’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Wolf-family-sprouts-in-Lassen-National-Forest-11268765.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offspring\u003c/a> has become the breeding male of the only known wolf pack in California. Two of OR-7’s female pups also ventured into the Golden State, and one has traveled as far south as Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Fish and Game Commission granted the gray wolf protections under the state’s endangered species act, despite opposition from hunting and livestock groups who worry an unchecked population will kill deer and valuable cattle. Under California’s protections, gray wolves can’t be killed or hunted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OR-7 eventually returned to Oregon in 2014 and the wolf has successfully reproduced each year since. It was so-named because he was the seventh wolf captured and collared in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Legal Foundation didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/837292910fdc426eab1ad6171beabc41\">Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED Science contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1937360/judge-rules-gray-wolves-can-stay-in-california","authors":["byline_science_1937360"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_16","science_40"],"tags":["science_2259","science_1119","science_3838","science_3649"],"featImg":"science_1937367","label":"source_science_1937360"},"science_1339079":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1339079","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1339079","score":null,"sort":[1489734038000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"delicious-and-nearly-extinct-can-white-abalone-be-saved","title":"The Extraordinary Effort to Save the White Abalone","publishDate":1489734038,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Extraordinary Effort to Save the White Abalone | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n a rainy winter evening, biologist \u003ca href=\"http://kristinaquilino.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristin Aquilino\u003c/a> was rummaging through the trunk of her pickup truck in the \u003ca href=\"http://bml.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bodega Marine Lab\u003c/a> parking lot. She was looking for a rubber spatula—a tool she needed to pry a recently captured white abalone from inside an ice chest brimming with seawater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquilino had driven the rare animal 385 miles from Los Angeles, where it was captured off the coast, and where small numbers of this endangered species can still be found. She was about to introduce the 7-inch marine snail to its new home, a research facility at UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Lab in Bodega Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1483680\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1483680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Aquilino searches for a spatula so she can remove a wild-caught white abalone from inside a cooler that transported the animal from Los Angeles to San Francisco.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Aquilino searches for a spatula so she can remove a wild-caught white abalone from inside a cooler that transported the animal from Los Angeles to San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Maggie Carson Jurow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now Aquilino had the unenviable task of trying to pry loose the creature’s squishy orange foot without injuring it. Any nick to this male abalone’s flesh, or chip to its shell, could cause the snail to bleed uncontrollably since its fluid doesn’t clot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been studying these animals for years and this is one of the few wild white abalone I’ve seen,” says Aquilino, an abalone expert at the Bodega Marine Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there are more white abalone living in captivity than there are in the wild. And the mollusk suctioning Aquilino’s hands is the first wild white abalone scientists have collected from the ocean in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rare creatures are incredibly difficult for divers to find in the deep waters where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been working for six to seven years to find loner abalone along the coast,” says fish biologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/restoration/connection/davewitting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Witting\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1484296\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 346px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1484296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660.jpg\" alt='A wild white abalone was covered in so much algae that scientists say he was \"extremely hard\" to find.' width=\"346\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-800x789.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-768x757.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-960x947.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-240x237.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-375x370.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-520x513.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild white abalone was covered in so much algae that scientists say he was “extremely hard” to find. \u003ccite>(Maggie Carson Jurow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We spoke to old abalone divers who are long retired now, but, basically we picked their brains and found some locations,” says Witting, who collected the male abalone that Aquilino drove to Bodega Marine Lab. “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was extremely hard to find,” says Witting. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It looked like a fuzzy rock.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was the abalone difficult to spot, but Witting needed a special Endangered Species Act permit to collect him—a permit that took two years to acquire. So the animal’s arrival at Bodega Marine Lab was historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big moment,” said Aquilino. “They will go extinct in 10 to 15 years if there’s not a program to place them back in the wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquilino gingerly placed the snail inside a bright blue bucket at the lab, where her 12-person research team runs a captive breeding program to protect white abalone from dying off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all new abalone that arrive, he received a nickname: abalone 314 or “Pi.” Researchers were hoping Pi’s arrival would introduce new DNA into the aging captive population, creating stronger offspring with more genetic diversity—and a better chance for survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1427858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1427858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey.jpg\" alt=\"A free diver searches for abalone off the California coast.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A free diver searches for abalone off the California coast. \u003ccite>(Ken Bailey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Path to Extinction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White abalone was once a delicacy at California seafood restaurants, the most highly prized of all abalone species for its soft meat. Then it disappeared from menus in 1993 when the fishery was closed due to overfishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Abalone-Worldwide-Haliotidae-Daniel-Geiger/dp/3939767433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzz Owen\u003c/a>, a retired commercial and recreational abalone diver, recalls his abundant abalone catches back in the ’50s and ’60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no limit on the number you could take,” says Owen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My record was in 1961. After diving for nine hours near Catalina Island when I caught 83 dozen including some whites and greens and pinks. “That didn’t even dent this population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1483445\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1483445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile.png\" alt=\"These abalone shells in Monterey, California on September 5, 1930 sit outside a market after the tender meat was removed. White was so popular that it was nearly eaten to extinction.\" width=\"768\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-240x171.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-375x267.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-520x370.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White abalone was so popular that it was nearly eaten to extinction. These shells sit outside a Monterey market in 1930. \u003ccite>(Richard S. Crocker/Online Archive of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Size limits on what divers could catch were intended to protect abalone so they could mature and reproduce. But it wasn’t enough to prevent the numbers from dwindling to a crisis point. The scattered survivors were too far apart for their ejected sperm and eggs to mingle, so spawning was rarely successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government eventually realized closing the fishery wasn’t enough, so they made collection of all abalone a federal crime in 1997. (One exception for abalone diving remains: there’s still a legal, recreational red abalone fishery north of San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2001, white abalone became the first marine invertebrate to receive federal protection as an endangered species after the population had declined by almost \u003ca href=\"http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pr/species/esa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">99 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success—or failure—of white abalone now depends on the breeding program at the Bodega Lab, and six other organizations, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a> and NOAA, that support the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first captive breeding attempt at UC Santa Barbara in 2001, the parent abalone created 100,000 juveniles, but almost all of them died due to a fatal wasting disease called withering syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, the \u003ca href=\"http://cimwi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel Islands Marine Resource Institute\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara bred the abalone again and after the Bodega lab received a permit in 2011, it bred animals in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Captive breeding was finally turning a corner. Between 2012 and 2014, the number of abalone that survived to be juveniles increased threefold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"1483442,1484303,1484302\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are now 8,000 juveniles living in captivity at Bodega’s lab. They haven’t been released into the wild yet because scientists still need to test methods for introduction into the ocean—an environment the animals have never experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a make-or-break situation right now with the wild population,” says Aquilino.\u003cb> \u003c/b>“We put them in this mess, so it’s up to us to save them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Abalone Brings Hope \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pi arrived at the Bodega Lab, Aquilino was excited about breeding him in March. White abalone only spawn once a year so timing is critical. It would be the first breeding of a newly collected abalone in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even hopeful stories don’t always turn out to be happy ones. In early February, 15 weeks after Pi’s arrival to Bodega, Aquilino sent an email with “cruddy news.” He didn’t survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">By 2019, scientists may be ready to release of thousands of young white abalone into the wild.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know why,” she later explained over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was obviously very sudden and unexpected. He looked fine on Tuesday and then a day later he was no longer holding on to the side of the tank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late February, Jim Moore, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife shellfish health expert, examined the animal’s tissue, and says “Pi” may have developed a foot infection, though he couldn’t be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may never be able to pinpoint cause of death, that is just the way it is sometimes,” says Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was some good news for Aquilino and her team. A female white abalone recently captured off the coast of Southern California arrived at the Bodega lab just before Pi’s death—just in time for breeding. They named her “Green 312.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was one of 13 animals that successfully spawned on March 1. For the scientists, it was a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1483453 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial.jpeg\" alt=\"Map_partial\" width=\"370\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial.jpeg 680w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-160x176.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-240x264.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-375x413.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-520x572.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\">“\u003cem>Pretty cool that there are new genes in the program for the first time in 14 years!!!\u003c/em>” Aquilino said in an email to colleagues a day after the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green 312 and four other female abalone from the original captive group produced about 14 million eggs. By the next morning, scientists woke up to find millions of embryos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was lucky enough to witness one of the embryos from the wild female hatching under the scope this morning, Aquilino wrote, “which was a first for me and super duper exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bodega Marine Lab and six other agencies have a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2016/02/docs/white__abalone_spotlight_species_5_year_action_plan_final_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five-year plan\u003c/a> and expect to be ready in about two years for a release of thousands of young white abalone into the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have enough captive white abalone to start testing the best methods for reintroduction to the wild once a permit is in place,” says Aquilino, “and we’re hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On the brink of extinction, white abalone get another chance inside a Northern California science lab.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704928960,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":true,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1531},"headData":{"title":"The Extraordinary Effort to Save the White Abalone | KQED","description":"On the brink of extinction, white abalone get another chance inside a Northern California science lab.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Extraordinary Effort to Save the White Abalone","datePublished":"2017-03-17T07:00:38.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T23:22:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/1339079/delicious-and-nearly-extinct-can-white-abalone-be-saved","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n a rainy winter evening, biologist \u003ca href=\"http://kristinaquilino.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristin Aquilino\u003c/a> was rummaging through the trunk of her pickup truck in the \u003ca href=\"http://bml.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bodega Marine Lab\u003c/a> parking lot. She was looking for a rubber spatula—a tool she needed to pry a recently captured white abalone from inside an ice chest brimming with seawater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquilino had driven the rare animal 385 miles from Los Angeles, where it was captured off the coast, and where small numbers of this endangered species can still be found. She was about to introduce the 7-inch marine snail to its new home, a research facility at UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Lab in Bodega Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1483680\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1483680\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Aquilino searches for a spatula so she can remove a wild-caught white abalone from inside a cooler that transported the animal from Los Angeles to San Francisco.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5656-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Aquilino searches for a spatula so she can remove a wild-caught white abalone from inside a cooler that transported the animal from Los Angeles to San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Maggie Carson Jurow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now Aquilino had the unenviable task of trying to pry loose the creature’s squishy orange foot without injuring it. Any nick to this male abalone’s flesh, or chip to its shell, could cause the snail to bleed uncontrollably since its fluid doesn’t clot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been studying these animals for years and this is one of the few wild white abalone I’ve seen,” says Aquilino, an abalone expert at the Bodega Marine Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there are more white abalone living in captivity than there are in the wild. And the mollusk suctioning Aquilino’s hands is the first wild white abalone scientists have collected from the ocean in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rare creatures are incredibly difficult for divers to find in the deep waters where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been working for six to seven years to find loner abalone along the coast,” says fish biologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/restoration/connection/davewitting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Witting\u003c/a> from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1484296\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 346px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1484296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660.jpg\" alt='A wild white abalone was covered in so much algae that scientists say he was \"extremely hard\" to find.' width=\"346\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-800x789.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-768x757.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-960x947.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-240x237.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-375x370.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-520x513.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/maggie-carson-jurow-npr-5660-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild white abalone was covered in so much algae that scientists say he was “extremely hard” to find. \u003ccite>(Maggie Carson Jurow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We spoke to old abalone divers who are long retired now, but, basically we picked their brains and found some locations,” says Witting, who collected the male abalone that Aquilino drove to Bodega Marine Lab. “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was extremely hard to find,” says Witting. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It looked like a fuzzy rock.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was the abalone difficult to spot, but Witting needed a special Endangered Species Act permit to collect him—a permit that took two years to acquire. So the animal’s arrival at Bodega Marine Lab was historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big moment,” said Aquilino. “They will go extinct in 10 to 15 years if there’s not a program to place them back in the wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquilino gingerly placed the snail inside a bright blue bucket at the lab, where her 12-person research team runs a captive breeding program to protect white abalone from dying off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all new abalone that arrive, he received a nickname: abalone 314 or “Pi.” Researchers were hoping Pi’s arrival would introduce new DNA into the aging captive population, creating stronger offspring with more genetic diversity—and a better chance for survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1427858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1427858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey.jpg\" alt=\"A free diver searches for abalone off the California coast.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/abalone_ken-bailey-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A free diver searches for abalone off the California coast. \u003ccite>(Ken Bailey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Path to Extinction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White abalone was once a delicacy at California seafood restaurants, the most highly prized of all abalone species for its soft meat. Then it disappeared from menus in 1993 when the fishery was closed due to overfishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Abalone-Worldwide-Haliotidae-Daniel-Geiger/dp/3939767433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzz Owen\u003c/a>, a retired commercial and recreational abalone diver, recalls his abundant abalone catches back in the ’50s and ’60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no limit on the number you could take,” says Owen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My record was in 1961. After diving for nine hours near Catalina Island when I caught 83 dozen including some whites and greens and pinks. “That didn’t even dent this population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1483445\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1483445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile.png\" alt=\"These abalone shells in Monterey, California on September 5, 1930 sit outside a market after the tender meat was removed. White was so popular that it was nearly eaten to extinction.\" width=\"768\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-240x171.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-375x267.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Abalone_shell_pile-520x370.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White abalone was so popular that it was nearly eaten to extinction. These shells sit outside a Monterey market in 1930. \u003ccite>(Richard S. Crocker/Online Archive of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Size limits on what divers could catch were intended to protect abalone so they could mature and reproduce. But it wasn’t enough to prevent the numbers from dwindling to a crisis point. The scattered survivors were too far apart for their ejected sperm and eggs to mingle, so spawning was rarely successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government eventually realized closing the fishery wasn’t enough, so they made collection of all abalone a federal crime in 1997. (One exception for abalone diving remains: there’s still a legal, recreational red abalone fishery north of San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2001, white abalone became the first marine invertebrate to receive federal protection as an endangered species after the population had declined by almost \u003ca href=\"http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pr/species/esa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">99 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success—or failure—of white abalone now depends on the breeding program at the Bodega Lab, and six other organizations, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a> and NOAA, that support the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first captive breeding attempt at UC Santa Barbara in 2001, the parent abalone created 100,000 juveniles, but almost all of them died due to a fatal wasting disease called withering syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, the \u003ca href=\"http://cimwi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel Islands Marine Resource Institute\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara bred the abalone again and after the Bodega lab received a permit in 2011, it bred animals in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Captive breeding was finally turning a corner. Between 2012 and 2014, the number of abalone that survived to be juveniles increased threefold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"type":"rectangular","size":"medium","ids":"1483442,1484303,1484302","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are now 8,000 juveniles living in captivity at Bodega’s lab. They haven’t been released into the wild yet because scientists still need to test methods for introduction into the ocean—an environment the animals have never experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a make-or-break situation right now with the wild population,” says Aquilino.\u003cb> \u003c/b>“We put them in this mess, so it’s up to us to save them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Abalone Brings Hope \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pi arrived at the Bodega Lab, Aquilino was excited about breeding him in March. White abalone only spawn once a year so timing is critical. It would be the first breeding of a newly collected abalone in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even hopeful stories don’t always turn out to be happy ones. In early February, 15 weeks after Pi’s arrival to Bodega, Aquilino sent an email with “cruddy news.” He didn’t survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">By 2019, scientists may be ready to release of thousands of young white abalone into the wild.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know why,” she later explained over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was obviously very sudden and unexpected. He looked fine on Tuesday and then a day later he was no longer holding on to the side of the tank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late February, Jim Moore, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife shellfish health expert, examined the animal’s tissue, and says “Pi” may have developed a foot infection, though he couldn’t be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may never be able to pinpoint cause of death, that is just the way it is sometimes,” says Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was some good news for Aquilino and her team. A female white abalone recently captured off the coast of Southern California arrived at the Bodega lab just before Pi’s death—just in time for breeding. They named her “Green 312.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was one of 13 animals that successfully spawned on March 1. For the scientists, it was a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1483453 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial.jpeg\" alt=\"Map_partial\" width=\"370\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial.jpeg 680w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-160x176.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-240x264.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-375x413.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Map_partial-520x572.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\">“\u003cem>Pretty cool that there are new genes in the program for the first time in 14 years!!!\u003c/em>” Aquilino said in an email to colleagues a day after the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green 312 and four other female abalone from the original captive group produced about 14 million eggs. By the next morning, scientists woke up to find millions of embryos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was lucky enough to witness one of the embryos from the wild female hatching under the scope this morning, Aquilino wrote, “which was a first for me and super duper exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bodega Marine Lab and six other agencies have a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2016/02/docs/white__abalone_spotlight_species_5_year_action_plan_final_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five-year plan\u003c/a> and expect to be ready in about two years for a release of thousands of young white abalone into the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have enough captive white abalone to start testing the best methods for reintroduction to the wild once a permit is in place,” says Aquilino, “and we’re hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1339079/delicious-and-nearly-extinct-can-white-abalone-be-saved","authors":["5432"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_36","science_40","science_2873"],"tags":["science_1119","science_5182"],"featImg":"science_1357570","label":"science"},"science_13704":{"type":"posts","id":"science_13704","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"13704","score":null,"sort":[1391180424000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"protecting-the-snowy-plovers-wintering-on-urban-beaches","title":"Protecting the Snowy Plovers Wintering on Urban Beaches","publishDate":1391180424,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Protecting the Snowy Plovers Wintering on Urban Beaches | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/3-SnPl-and-foam.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13705\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13705\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/3-SnPl-and-foam.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy plovers forage along the tideline, using their excellent eyesight to hunt for small invertebrates. Photo by Cal Walters.\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy plovers forage along the tideline, using their excellent eyesight to hunt for small invertebrates. Photo by \u003ca title=\"calwalters.zenfolio.com\" href=\"http://calwalters.zenfolio.com/p826151533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Walters\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, the favorite part of my day has been monitoring some wintering \u003ca title=\"western snowy plover.org\" href=\"http://www.westernsnowyplover.org/about_plovers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">western snowy plovers\u003c/a> that came to \u003ca title=\"Crown Beach, EBRPD\" href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/parks/crown_beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crown Beach\u003c/a> in November. Their appearance was first noticed by some volunteer birders who were doing the annual shorebird count around San Francisco Bay. The \u003ca title=\"Replenshing Crown Beach, KQED Science\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2013/08/30/sand-mining-in-san-francisco-bay-to-replenish-alamedas-crown-beach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sand restoration project\u003c/a>, which brought nearly $6 million worth of sand dredged from the bay floor around Angel Island and pumped from a barge onto the beach, was just finishing up. The new darker sand, heavy with bits of shell, must have attracted the small flock of plovers. Their favorite winter habitat is a stretch of sandy beach backed by dunes, exactly what Crown Beach offers. That’s also their favorite nesting habitat, which is part of the problem and one of the reasons they’ve been listed as a “threatened species” under the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endangered Species Act\u003c/a>. In 1993, it was estimated that only 1,500 snowy plovers remained in the Pacific Coast population due to habitat loss and predation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13707\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 243px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Snpl-copy-243x162.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13707\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Snpl-copy-243x162.jpg\" alt=\"By identifying the bands on this snowy plovers legs, its movements could be tracked over nearly five years. Photo by Cal Walters.\" width=\"243\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By identifying the bands on this snowy plovers legs, its movements could be tracked over nearly five years. Photo by \u003ca title=\"calwalters.zenfolio.com\" href=\"http://calwalters.zenfolio.com/p826151533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Walters\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the plovers I’ve been watching has four colored bands on its legs. Cindy Margulis, a local birder, and Karine Tokatlian, Plover Program Director with the \u003ca title=\"Plover Project, SFBBO\" href=\"http://www.sfbbo.org/science/water_projects.php?proj=snpl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO)\u003c/a>, identified this little snowy plover and traced out its life story. Hatched in June 2009 on the South Bay salt ponds, the chick was banded along with 112 other snowy plover chicks that year. That winter it turned up in Half Moon Bay, then returned in spring 2010 to the South Bay Salt Ponds. The next couple of years no sighting was reported, but this winter it’s hanging out on Crown Beach with up to thirteen other snowy plovers. This represents 10% of the Bay Area’s snowy plover population. Karine relayed to me, “It’s common for the snowy plovers to move between the Pacific Coast and the bay and even go as far east as the Central Valley. They don’t migrate far distances like some of our shorebirds who nest in the Arctic and winter along San Francisco Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a two-ounce bird that would fit in the palm of your hand, there are many threats they overcome to survive even the average lifespan of three years. Their main survival strategy is concealment, hiding in plain sight. The bird monitors and I have stood with binoculars and scopes and counted the visible birds multiple times, only to find we’ve overlooked one or more. Their camouflage helps them hide from predators such as gulls and ravens. Unfortunately, these predators can decimate the nesting site once it’s discovered. Last year, the South Bay salt ponds hosted the majority of Bay Area nesting snowy plovers with 174 nests. SFBBO discourages California gulls from nesting on nearby habitat to help the snowy plovers.They also improve the nesting habitat by adding oyster shells to provide better camouflage elements for the adults and chicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13706\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 202px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/DSCN0216-WSP-with-Leg-Bands-202x162.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13706\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13706\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/DSCN0216-WSP-with-Leg-Bands-202x162.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy plovers camouflage with the sand, making them difficult for predators to find them. Photo by Cindy Margulis.\" width=\"202\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy plovers camouflage with the sand, making them difficult for predators to find them. Photo by Cindy Margulis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wildlife agencies are trying to balance the mandate to return the salt ponds to tidal action and preserving a portion of them for plover and least tern nest sites. The hope is that with habitat preservation, restoration and predator controls the snowy plover population will return to sustainable levels. Success will be achieved when the snowy plover population reaches 3,000 birds and is maintained over the course of at least 10 years. You can help these threatened birds survive by not disturbing birds resting or nesting on beaches. You can also report banded snowy plovers to SFBBO on their website to help them learn more about snowy plover survival rates and movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information: \u003ca title=\"Snowy Plovers a Welcome Surprise at Alameda Beach, SF Chronicle\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Snowy-plovers-a-welcome-surprise-at-Alameda-beach-5183295.php#photo-5789420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Snowy Plovers a Welcome Surprise at Alameda Beach.”\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A small flock of snowy plovers have moved to Crown Beach in Alameda this winter. Learn more about why they're threatened from Sharol Nelson-Embry of the East Bay Regional Park District. 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Photo by Cal Walters.\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy plovers forage along the tideline, using their excellent eyesight to hunt for small invertebrates. Photo by \u003ca title=\"calwalters.zenfolio.com\" href=\"http://calwalters.zenfolio.com/p826151533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Walters\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, the favorite part of my day has been monitoring some wintering \u003ca title=\"western snowy plover.org\" href=\"http://www.westernsnowyplover.org/about_plovers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">western snowy plovers\u003c/a> that came to \u003ca title=\"Crown Beach, EBRPD\" href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/parks/crown_beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crown Beach\u003c/a> in November. Their appearance was first noticed by some volunteer birders who were doing the annual shorebird count around San Francisco Bay. The \u003ca title=\"Replenshing Crown Beach, KQED Science\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2013/08/30/sand-mining-in-san-francisco-bay-to-replenish-alamedas-crown-beach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sand restoration project\u003c/a>, which brought nearly $6 million worth of sand dredged from the bay floor around Angel Island and pumped from a barge onto the beach, was just finishing up. The new darker sand, heavy with bits of shell, must have attracted the small flock of plovers. Their favorite winter habitat is a stretch of sandy beach backed by dunes, exactly what Crown Beach offers. That’s also their favorite nesting habitat, which is part of the problem and one of the reasons they’ve been listed as a “threatened species” under the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endangered Species Act\u003c/a>. In 1993, it was estimated that only 1,500 snowy plovers remained in the Pacific Coast population due to habitat loss and predation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13707\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 243px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Snpl-copy-243x162.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13707\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13707\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Snpl-copy-243x162.jpg\" alt=\"By identifying the bands on this snowy plovers legs, its movements could be tracked over nearly five years. Photo by Cal Walters.\" width=\"243\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By identifying the bands on this snowy plovers legs, its movements could be tracked over nearly five years. Photo by \u003ca title=\"calwalters.zenfolio.com\" href=\"http://calwalters.zenfolio.com/p826151533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Walters\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the plovers I’ve been watching has four colored bands on its legs. Cindy Margulis, a local birder, and Karine Tokatlian, Plover Program Director with the \u003ca title=\"Plover Project, SFBBO\" href=\"http://www.sfbbo.org/science/water_projects.php?proj=snpl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO)\u003c/a>, identified this little snowy plover and traced out its life story. Hatched in June 2009 on the South Bay salt ponds, the chick was banded along with 112 other snowy plover chicks that year. That winter it turned up in Half Moon Bay, then returned in spring 2010 to the South Bay Salt Ponds. The next couple of years no sighting was reported, but this winter it’s hanging out on Crown Beach with up to thirteen other snowy plovers. This represents 10% of the Bay Area’s snowy plover population. Karine relayed to me, “It’s common for the snowy plovers to move between the Pacific Coast and the bay and even go as far east as the Central Valley. They don’t migrate far distances like some of our shorebirds who nest in the Arctic and winter along San Francisco Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a two-ounce bird that would fit in the palm of your hand, there are many threats they overcome to survive even the average lifespan of three years. Their main survival strategy is concealment, hiding in plain sight. The bird monitors and I have stood with binoculars and scopes and counted the visible birds multiple times, only to find we’ve overlooked one or more. Their camouflage helps them hide from predators such as gulls and ravens. Unfortunately, these predators can decimate the nesting site once it’s discovered. Last year, the South Bay salt ponds hosted the majority of Bay Area nesting snowy plovers with 174 nests. SFBBO discourages California gulls from nesting on nearby habitat to help the snowy plovers.They also improve the nesting habitat by adding oyster shells to provide better camouflage elements for the adults and chicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13706\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 202px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/DSCN0216-WSP-with-Leg-Bands-202x162.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13706\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13706\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/DSCN0216-WSP-with-Leg-Bands-202x162.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy plovers camouflage with the sand, making them difficult for predators to find them. Photo by Cindy Margulis.\" width=\"202\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy plovers camouflage with the sand, making them difficult for predators to find them. Photo by Cindy Margulis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wildlife agencies are trying to balance the mandate to return the salt ponds to tidal action and preserving a portion of them for plover and least tern nest sites. The hope is that with habitat preservation, restoration and predator controls the snowy plover population will return to sustainable levels. Success will be achieved when the snowy plover population reaches 3,000 birds and is maintained over the course of at least 10 years. You can help these threatened birds survive by not disturbing birds resting or nesting on beaches. You can also report banded snowy plovers to SFBBO on their website to help them learn more about snowy plover survival rates and movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information: \u003ca title=\"Snowy Plovers a Welcome Surprise at Alameda Beach, SF Chronicle\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Snowy-plovers-a-welcome-surprise-at-Alameda-beach-5183295.php#photo-5789420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Snowy Plovers a Welcome Surprise at Alameda Beach.”\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/13704/protecting-the-snowy-plovers-wintering-on-urban-beaches","authors":["6328"],"categories":["science_30"],"tags":["science_454","science_1119"],"featImg":"science_13707","label":"science"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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