EHL Newsletter, Spring 2011 Vol 21 No 2

Welshing on its promise, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has abandoned its commitment to bring federally owned land on the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station into the Central-Coastal Natural Community Conservation Plan/Habitat Conservation Plan (NCCP/HCP).

Resisting pressure from landowners, the County Board of Supervisors refused to abandon a progressive General Plan, but disappointingly also directed staff to compromise the plan by adding dozens of last minute map changes and by revising policies that would have protected plan integrity over time.

At the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary, invasive weeds are giving way to resurgent coastal sage scrub.

EHL was quoted on Congressional efforts to gut the Endangered Species Act.

Osprey

One would think large hawks immune to attack by lesser birds.