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Luckless wolf that went to California is back in Oregon-
The world’s currently most famous wolf, OR-7, born in NE Oregon, seems to have abandoned California and returned to Oregon.
He spent over a year looking for a female wolf, but there are probably no California girl wolves. During his search, he explored a [...]
Continue Reading →Agreement ending 100 years of fighting over the uses of the Klamath River’s waters falls to a group of local malcontents-
After many years of fighting over salmon, dams, irrigation water, tribal treaty rights and ocean fishing matters came to an unpleasant head in 2001-2 when VP Dick Cheney sided with irrigators and let 70,000 [...]
Continue Reading →While on a hike in northern California, Robert Biggs stopped to watch a bear and her cubs. He was suddenly attacked from behind by a mountain lion and the sow black bear came to his rescue.
Bear Saves Robert Biggs From Mountain Lion Attack In California.
The Huffington Post
Famous wolf’s inability to find a mate in California is not surprising-
The West’s currently best known wolf, named “Journey” in a contest held by conservation groups, did not find a mate in California. Now mating season is over. The wolf, officially OR(7), has returned to SW Oregon, although his lack of a mate is [...]
Continue Reading →The effort to list the Greater Sage-grouse via the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been an uphill battle. However, even as the end-game has yet to be realized, the effort itself has been remarkably successful at prompting bureaucratic backflips and a whole lot of paper-shuffling to accommodate consideration of the species. Unfortunately, many of the existing and developing [...]
Continue Reading →Pattern Energy Group will not build 2000 acre wind farm near Sacramento-
Plans for a 2000 acre (3 1/2 square mile) wind farm NW of Sacramento have been scrapped because of its probable bad effects on the local bird population. The wind farm, which would capture enough energy for 100 megawatts of electricity had [...]
Continue Reading →In 1988, beer maker conglomerate Anheuser-Busch purchased the Cabin Bar Ranch in California’s Sierra Nevada to obtain water rights that would insure a backup water supply for the company’s Van Nuys brewery. Associated with the ranch were public lands permits to graze cattle within the Golden Trout Wilderness, home to California’s state [...]
Continue Reading →Another Solar Development, Another Lost Landscape ?
Chris Clarke gives a remarkable account of another landscape that has found its way into the cross-hairs of Solar Developers and Big Green, and of the locals’ abiding love for the land:
Solar Energy Development in the Carrizo Plain Draws Lawsuits – KCET – The Back Forty
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Continue Reading →The Ivanpah solar thermal project consists of 5.4 square miles of high quality habitat for the Endangered Species Act protected desert tortoise, a fact that developers (and some investors) underestimated resulting in the temporary suspension of activities on phases 2 and 3 of the project site due to construction activities exceeding the incidental [...]
Continue Reading →Project already blading Mojave desert habitat
Google announces its private investment in Brightsource Energy, the proponent of the controversial Ivanpah Solar Thermal Project:
Google Solar Project: Google Invests $168 Million In Mojave Power Plant – Huffington Post
The commitment announced Monday is part of the financing that BrightSource Energy needs to build a solar [...]
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