Last week California State Parks released its new General Plan and Environmental Impact Report for Big Basin State Park in Santa Cruz County. The Park has the largest stand of old growth redwood south of San Francisco, and harbors the vast majority of remaining  central coast marbled murrelet. It is literally the key to the future for [...]

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Gov. Jerry Brown today appointed retired U.S. Marine Corps Major General Anthony L. Jackson to run the beleaguered California State Parks. ”Major General Jackson brings more than thirty years of problem-solving and management experience to Parks, serving most recently as the Commanding General of Marine bases across the Southwestern U.S. and tens of thousands of troops and civilians,” Brown said [...]

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Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana, and SharkStewards filed a petition this week to list the Great White Shark as threatened orendangered. From the petition: White sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, of the northeastern Pacific Ocean are in peril. New studies demonstrate that these sharks form a genetically distinct population. Such a population, covering a significant portion of the world’s oceans, urgently [...]

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The leadership of Audubon California today praised this week’s appointment of San Diego Assemblymember Ben Hueso as Chair of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.  Assembly Speaker John Pérez made his choice of Hueso to succeed Assemblymember Jared Huffman as committee chair on Wednesday. ”Ben Hueso is a rising star for wildlife conservation,” said Michael [...]

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In another twist to the ongoing controversy involving Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards, the hunting community showed its support for the embattled official — as reported in the Los Angeles Times. Share on Facebook

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The California Majority Report notes today that nearly every California newspaper is calling for the State Legislature to remove Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards from office. The Report notes that even papers from areas one would think would support him are turning against him. Share on Facebook

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If you follow conservation news, you’ve no doubt heard of the controversy surrounding California Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards’ mountain lion hunt in Idaho. The controversy is that he shot a mountain lion in Idaho — where it’s legal to hunt mountain lion — and had his photo taken posing with the carcass. [...]

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A majority of California Assembly Members have signed on to a letter demanding the resignation of Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards. Although the letter has no legal weight, it could portend a legislative effort to remove the official. Richards, you may recall, drew harsh criticism when he was photographed posing with with a [...]

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California birds need your help to reduce a dangerous threat to their survival. Poisoning from lead ammunition left behind in the environment poses a grave danger to rare birds such as the California Condor and the Golden Eagle, as well as to more common birds such as the Mourning Dove and the California Quail. Failure [...]

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California Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards is getting a lot of flack for a mountain lion hunt he recently did in Idaho. It’s not that the hunt was illegal — it wasn’t — rather it was the perception that he was flouting that he was “thumbing his nose” at the California voters that [...]

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Well, they’re at it again. The latest proposed budget from the Governor’s office continues the state down a path toward shutting down 25 percent of our State Parks. Moreover, he also threatens to eliminate lifeguards and fire more rangers if his revenue initiative fails to pass this November. We’ve had enough of this. Let your [...]

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To the untrained eye, California’s Mojave and Colorado deserts might appear like barren, lifeless places. It would seem like an ideal location for hundreds of square miles of solar arrays and transmission lines – power plants for alternative energy that will reduce the impacts of climate change on our planet. “The reality is that these [...]

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In a decision that probably won’t get much press, the California Fish and Game Commission at its meeting in San Diego yesterday rejected a petition by a small group of fishermen to increase the catch limits for market squid. The Commission followed that decision with another asking conservation stakeholders to develop a draft of a [...]

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The San Joaquin River is California’s second-longest river, stretching 330 miles from its headwaters in the Sierra and meandering through the Central Valley’s rich agricultural legacy to its mouth at the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of North America. The river irrigates more than one million acres of farmland, supports [...]

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For the longest time, Audubon has been concerned about the future of the Salton Sea. Early on, it was chapters that led the fight, but then Audubon California and the National Audubon Society got involved. Lately, we’ve been pressuring the state to keep its promises about the Salton Sea. Today brings an interesting viewpoint from [...]

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