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THIS WEEK IN NEWS.BYTES:
- Wild Horse and Burro Program
- America's Great Outdoors
- On BLM Social Media Pages
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Wildlife Trivia Question of the Week
- Upcoming Events
- Headlines and Highlights: Assorted topics from your public lands in California
- National and Department of the Interior items
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WILD HORSE AND BURRO PROGRAM
 Youth Engaged in the Wild
Horse and Burro Program
(BLM Extra)
The Ridgecrest Regional Wild Horse and Burro Corrals partnered with the Kern County Fair to create the Kern County Youth Wild Horse and Burro Project. More than 5,000 people visited the wild horses and burros at the fairgrounds. Nine youth trainers, and their parents, chose to participate
in the project. The wild horses and burros not selected for the project were adopted into good homes.
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2013/597_extra_-_youth.html
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AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS
 Be Still the Night -- Tumco
Revisited
(BLM Extra)
Eleven hikers joined a BLM El Centro Field Office park ranger on a September night hike to the Tumco Historic Mining Town. Tumco is a 19th century gold mining ghost town located in the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, just east of the Imperial Sand Dunes.
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2013/597_extra_-_be_still.html
 International ACE Team Eradication Effort in Alpaugh!
(BLM Extra)
While the title for this article sounds like an international spy team has descended upon the community of Alpaugh, the purpose for their visit was no less impressive for healthy ecosystems than your favorite superhuman spy thriller! BLM hosted an international work crew from the American
Conservation Experience.
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2013/597_extra_-_international.html
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WILDLIFE TRIVIA QUESTION of the WEEK
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Which is one of the greatest threats to Desert Tortoises in captivity?
(a.) They stop breeding in captivity
(b.) They suffer from malnutrition because they refuse to eat their natural diets
(c.) They develop upper respiratory infections
(d.) They develop poor circulation
(e.) They can injure themselves jumping up on the table trying to get dinner scraps
See answer - and more informaiton - near the end of this News.bytes. |
HEADLINES and HIGHLIGHTS
Conservation Tag Would Help Napa, Lake Berryessa
(Napa Valley Register, 10/19/13)
Many might argue that the last thing Lake Berryessa needs is another layer of government laid onto its open wounds. Three federal government agencies -- the Bureua of Reclamation, the BLM and the National Forest Service -- manage different segments of the nearly 100-mile stretch of land. By
pulling together the Berryessa Snow Mountain area as a conservation area, it forces those three agencies to...
http://www.ca.blm.gov/gfld
BLM Proposes Changes To King Range
(New Channel 3, 10/24/13)
The BLM is proposing changes that will effect access to the King Range Conservation Area. The plan looks to limit access, establish an access fee and increase their campsite fee.
http://kiem-tv.com/video/blm-proposes-changes-king-range
BLM Fire Restrictions Lifted in Several Northern California Areas
(BLM News Releases)
Even though fire dangers have decreased, we still ask that people be careful with fire any time they are outdoors.
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom.html
 2 Desert Solar Plants May Harm Thousands of Tortoises
(KCET, 10/21/13)
A federal agency estimates that more than 2,000 desert tortoises may currently occupy the sites of a pair of large planned desert solar projects that would straddle the California/Nevada state line, but says developing the projects won't harm the species.
http://www.ca.blm.gov/dfld
RELATED: Planning For a Clean Energy Future
(BLM Website)
The BLM is partnering with its fellow REAT agencies to develop a Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan for California.
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/energy.html
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NATIONAL, OTHER STATE AND DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR ITEMS
 This Week at Interior October 18, 2013
(DOI YouTube)
This week: Secretary Jewell welcomes back Department of the Interior employees...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hji3OOJ5hBw
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WILDLIFE TRIVIA answer and related websites
Which is one of the greatest threats to Desert Tortoises in captivity?
(c.) They develop upper respiratory infections
SOURCE: "Desert tortoise - Gopherus agassizii"
(BLM California Wildlife Database)
Although the desert tortoise population remained healthy for three million years, it is now experiencing a serious decline. One cause for this decline is an upper respiratory disease. This disease is usually found in captive pet tortoises, but some pet owners have released their sick
tortoises into the wild. As a result, some wild tortoises have contracted and spread the disease.
http://www.blm.gov/ca/forms/wildlife/details.php?metode=serial_number&search=2568
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