Natural History Wanderings

The most recent issue of the Sierra Club Yodler has an update on the continued efforts to prevent the Oakland Zoo from building a project that would have significant impacts on rare native plant communities and the threatened Alameda whipsnake. The article includes:

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife CDFW recommended that the project be built within the zoo’s existing footprint to avoid significant impacts to rare plant communities and to the threatened Alameda whipsnake. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service USFWS, meanwhile, sent the zoo’s application back to the drawing board, noting that the project is at best conceptual.

Read full story at  Oakland Zoo’s proposed expansion into Knowland Park goes from bad to worse.