< Endangered Habitats League Newsletter
Spring 2011 Vol 21 No 2
The Endangered Habitats League is dedicated to the protection of the diverse ecosystems of Southern California and to sensitive and sustainable land use for the benefit of all the region's inhabitants. The EHL Newsletter is published quarterly to chronicle our plans, activities, and successes.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service abandons Orange County wildlife

Welshing on its promise, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has abandoned its commitment to bring federally owned land on the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station into the Central-Coastal Natural Community Conservation Plan/Habitat Conservation Plan (NCCP/HCP).
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San Diego Supervisors move forward but weaken General Plan


Resisting pressure from landowners, the County Board of Supervisors refused to abandon a progressive General Plan, but disappointingly also directed staff to compromise the plan by adding dozens of last minute map changes and by revising policies that would have protected plan integrity over time.
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Habitat Restoration at Starr Ranch

At the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary, invasive weeds are giving way to resurgent coastal sage scrub.
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EHL in the News

EHL was quoted on Congressional efforts to gut the Endangered Species Act.
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Beasts and Botany by Jess Morton
Osprey

One would think large hawks immune to attack by lesser birds.
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