Wildlife Sanctuary at Mt San Antonio College
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ISSUE 701 - NOVEMBER 19, 2015 |
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- BLM Southern California Youth Summit
- Youth
- Headlines and Highlights
- BLM and DOI Highlights
- Wildlife Question of the Week
- Upcoming Events
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BLM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA YOUTH SUMMIT |
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Last week, BLM California’s Desert District hosted the Southern California Youth Summit, Lead the Way Outdoors, at
Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, California. Hundreds of students, partner agencies and organizations participated in the day’s events including hands-on workshops, discussion circles and a higher education and career expo. (BLM Newsbytes)
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High school students from across Southern California kicked off the first annual Southern California Youth Summit: Lead
the Way Outdoors Mt. SAC Community College. The summit connected youth to America’s Great Outdoors and exposed young people to higher education and career opportunities in natural resources. (BLM Facebook)
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Highlights from the Southern California Youth Summit (BLM YouTube)
Related: Trail Workshop at
Youth Summit (BLM Facebook)
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Wrapped up a successful day at the CA Youth Summit: Lead the Way Outdoors. Thanks to all our students and partners for a
great day! (BLM Flickr)
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The Bureau of Land Management invites youth, partner organizations, government agencies, and others interested in helping youth to “Lead the Way Outdoors” to save the
dates for upcoming Youth Summits. For more information go Youth Summit. (BLM Website)
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YOUTH |
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A group of sixth graders from a Shasta County elementary school joined with staff from the BLM Redding Field Office
earlier this month for a habitat improvement project at the China Garden Picnic Area in the Clear Creek Greenway. The project was an opportunity for the children to apply the lessons they have been learning in their classroom and in their school’s greenhouse. (BLM Newsbytes)
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Fourth graders from Galt Joint Union Elementary School District toured the Cosumnes River Preserve to learn about nature and receive their “Every Kid in a Park” pass.
(BLM Facebook)
Related: Cosumnes River Preserve (BLM Website)
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Fourth graders and their families get free access to hundreds of parks, lands, and waters for an entire year. To learn more visit: Every Kid in a Park (DOI Website) |
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HEADLINES AND HIGHLIGHTS |
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Members of the Northern California District Resource Advisory Council made their first foray into the Bureau of Land Management’s planning process, when they met
Nov. 5 and 6 on California’s North Coast. RAC members became familiar with several issues on a day-long field tour. (BLM Newsbytes)
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Women in STEM
I am Elizabeth – a Contract Archaeologist for the BLM out of the Ridgecrest Field Office. I use
technology on a daily basis for my job, particularly a GPS unit. I not only use GPS units to locate cultural resources, but to record them for the posterity. We make maps that are used by other parties to locate these sites for various reasons. (BLM
Facebook)
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Six Bureau of Land Management mustangs trained at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center were adopted on Saturday in Rancho Murieta. Rio Cosumnes is one of six prison programs in the United
States where inmates train horses. Twenty-three horses have been adopted from the program in the last eight months. (BLM Newsbytes)
Related: California Wild Horse and Burro Adoption
Schedule
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Outside Online, 11/12/2015
The big news from Outerbike last month wasn’t the surprise debut of some flyweight carbon-fiber über-mountain bike. Sure, plenty of those things were crawling around the slickrock—the opportunity to test ride the latest models, after all, is what draws hundreds of
eager mountain bikers to this event in Moab each fall. (Read full story)
Related: Mountain Biking Opportunities on BLM California's Paradise Royale Trail System (BLM
Website)
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We were happy to see water flowing in Fort Ord National Monument’s Toro Creek! It has been a while! Hopefully this
is a sign of things to come. (BLM Facebook)
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The Department of the Interior and the State of California last week announced the final environmental review of the
Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. The DRECP is an innovative landscape-scale plan that provides protection and conservation for wildlife, recreation and cultural resources in the California desert while encouraging streamlined renewable energy development in the right
places. (BLM Tumblr)
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Epic, 11/12/2015
California’s coastal redwood forests are the stuff that myth and legend are made of, like a species of dinosaur that has somehow managed to persist into the modern age. At one time, redwood forests grew across the northern hemisphere, with the oldest-known fossil evidence dating back
some 200 million years to the Jurassic Period. Once, the ancient coastal redwood forests spanned some two million acres of California’s scenic and rugged coastline from Big Sur all the way to the Oregon border. (Read full story)
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Associated Press, 11/16/2015
Three national environmental organizations want to wade into a legal battle in Nevada over new federal regulations intended to protect the greater sage grouse. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du has scheduled a hearing in Reno Tuesday to consider whether to grant a temporary injunction sought by eight Nevada counties and others to block the rules. (Read full story)
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BLM AND DOI HIGHLIGHTS |
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This Week at Interior: fresh from the White House Tribal Nations Conference — we’re strengthening relations
with tribal leaders, empowering native youth with education grants, and unveiling a new one-stop website to improve access to government services.
(DOI
YouTube)
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New My Public Lands magazine out now! Read online: My Public Lands (BLM Website)
Get the full PDF : My Public
Lands The Colors of Fall PDF (BLM Website)
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November conservation lands 15 ends with the top 15 places to view wildlife on BLM’s National Conservation Lands.
Check out the full list on My Public Lands Tumblr.
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The Snake River, east of Idaho Falls, offers some of the best fishing and wildlife viewing in the state. Anglers
come from throughout the country to try for a trophy trout. They will float through the best example of a cottonwood riparian forest in the state, which provides habitat for a diversity of species. Pelicans, osprey and bald eagles are commonly seen along the river. Moose, deer and elk are also
common along the corridor. (BLM Tumblr)
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WILDLIFE QUESTION OF THE WEEK |
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What extreme conditions are pupfish able to withstand that would kill most other vertebrates?
(a) They can survive in water as hot as
116 degrees Fahrenheit;
(b) They can survive in water as cold as 32 degrees Fahrenheit;
(c) They can tolerate water with a salt content more than 4 times that of ocean water.
(d) All of the above
Keep reading for answer
below
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UPCOMING EVENTS |
Representatives from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Marine Corps will host a Resource Management Group meeting about changes in land use in the Johnson Valley
Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area on Nov. 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (BLM News
Release)
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November 23: Public Comments Due for Remediation at Rand Historic Mining Company Site
The Bureau of Land Management Ridgecrest
Field Office, has announced the availability of the proposed plan for remediating contamination for Operable Unit 1 (OU1) at the Rand Historic Mining Complex Site. The proposed plan was prepared by the BLM under
authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, and is the first step in the CERCLA remedy selection process. (BLM Website)
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Comments on a proposed Trinity River channel improvement project will be accepted in a public meeting set for Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Moose Lodge, 71
Lewiston Turnpike Rd. in Lewiston. (BLM News Release)
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WILDLIFE QUESTION OF THE WEEK ANSWER |
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What extreme conditions are pupfish able to withstand that would kill most other
vertebrates?
Answer: (d) All of the above — These amazing little creatures, only a few inches in length, can withstand all of these
conditions! The Salt Creek pupfish is one of the few that the public is allowed view. The Death Valley National Park has a boardwalk designated for just that purpose.
SOURCE: BLM
Wildlife Database
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