Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reported

Biologists who monitor wildlife year-round at San Francisco’s remote Farallon Islands will be leaving their posts for the first time in nearly six decades due to federal budget cuts. Despite its timing, the news is not related to President Donald Trump’s funding freeze that recently impacted Yosemite National Park and the Presidio Trust, among other places. Nevertheless, it raises concerns over the loss of continuous data collection on cherished California species that researchers are calling an “unprecedented disruption.”

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