[CPEO-MEF] Snowy Plover

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: The Snowy Plover is currently an impediment to military training
on the beaches of San Diego County, California. - LS]


Proposal would reduce plover habitat 

By JEFF BARNARD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
December 18, 2004

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- The federal government proposed yesterday to
protect smaller but more numerous sections of West Coast beaches as
habitat for the Western snowy plover, saying it hoped to reduce
conflicts between the tiny shore bird and people playing in the sand.

The new critical-habitat proposal is the result of a federal court order
won by Coos County commissioners on the ground that the original
proposal did not include a proper economic-impact statement. 

The new proposal comes as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is
considering petitions to lift Endangered Species Act protection for the bird.

...

The reductions came from eliminating military land where habitat
protections are in place, fine-tuning mapping and a better understanding
of the habitat needs of the plover, the agency said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/204321_snowyplover18.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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