Regional Conservation Investment Strategy Recommendations Sent
MBCA Joins Trailer Bill Concerns
MBCA Comments on Golden Currant Solar Project
Raven Abatement on Desert Military Bases
In November a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment was published by the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center and other agencies, proposing actions to manage widespread raven problems in California desert military locations. In response, Ed LaRue of the Desert Tortoise Council sent a comment letter that approves of the raven abatement project so far as it’s necessary to protect desert tortoise, but also recommends a number of changes.
MBCA Joins Request for Wildlife Crossings on Rail Corridor
EBlast December 1, 2020

- Joshua Tree Candidacy for Threatened Status
- Desert Tortoise Candidacy for Endangered Status
- Countywide Plan / Repeal of Community Plans
- Stagecoach Solar
- XPressWest Wildlife Crossings
- Stinknet Invasive Plant!
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Wildlife Crossings Needed for High Speed Rail Project
Desert Tortoise Becomes Candidate for Endangered Status in California
The California Fish and Game Commission has temporarily designated the desert tortoise as endangered, a step beyond its current status as threatened. Similar to the action reported in our most recent News Update about the status of the western Joshua tree, a year-long review period will precede a permanent designation. Read more in this LA Times article.
MBCA Joins Coalition Requesting I-15 Wildlife Crossings
EBlast August 3, 2020

- Desert Wise Living Landscape Desert Tour 2020 goes virtual!
- Petition to list yucca brevifolia as a threatened species
- Opposition to Eagle Crest pumped storage project
- Reject nomination of William Pendley to head BLM
- Daggett Solar Energy project update
- Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease in the Morongo Basin
- Complete the 2020 Census
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