Extreme off-road vehicle use, CBD argued, would have damaged the canyon’s waterfalls, trees that provide habitat for desert bighorn sheep, endangered birds and rare species.
California Ecology
Rancho Calera acquisition adds to Los Padres National Forest land along California’s Big Sur coast
The purchase creates a 10-mile open space corridor from the crest of the Santa Lucia Mountains to the ocean 15 miles south of Carmel.
California climate research signals water shortages, flooding risk
Scientists predicted that global warming is likely to change California river flows in ways that may result in both increased winter flood risk and summer water shortages — even within the same year.
‘Living with the Changing California Coast’ chronicles changes to famed coastline
The book takes a look at the famed 1,100-mile California coastline that has been battered by ongoing erosion, periodic storm damage and other natural forces, resulting in heightened regulatory and ecological scrutiny.
UCSC: Climate change threatens California’s oak woodlands
The regional model yields a climate scenario in which the future range for blue oak shrinks to 59 percent of its current range. For valley oak, the future range shrinks to 54 percent of its current range.
Eastern California shear zone puzzles seismologists
The Eastern California Shear Zone runs roughly parallel to the San Andreas Fault from the Gulf of California and is a wide area in western Nevada.
Mojave Desert areas sinking due to aquifer depletion
Land subsidence was linked to water-level declines of more than 100 feet between the 1950s and the 1990s.