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California Golden Trout and Tehachapi Slender Salamander Denied Protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

This past friday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled that both the California Golden Trout and Tehachapi Slender Salamander would not receive endangered species protection.

The California golden trout is California’s  official state fish. The statement by the Fish and Game spokesperson was:

“Conservation measures throughout the trout’s historic range have done much to protect the species. In large part because of those measures, the service determined that the intensity of threats does not indicate the species is endangered, or likely to become so in the foreseeable future.”

Read more in the LA Times California golden trout won’t be listed as endangered

The Fish and Game ruled that the Tehachapi Salamander Batrachoseps stebbinsi was not at risk.  The decision assumed that cattle grazing, road construction, flood control projects, disease, severe wildfires, prolonged drought and construction of Tejon Ranch’s proposed 7,860-acre residential and commercial development, the Tejon Mountain Village project were not a danger to the salamander.  Read more in the LA Times Tehachapi slender salamander denied endangered species protection

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