Natural History Wanderings

Audublog reported that the California State Parks and Recreation Commission voted unanimously to approve the Big Basin State Park General Plan and Final Environmental Impact Report without safeguards for the critically endangered Marbled Murrelet. This ignored objections by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Center for Biological Diversity, Audubon California, two Audubon chapters, and thousands of letters from concerned citizens. Learn more at  Audublog ~ State Parks lets down people of California with bad decision for marbled murrelets.