Joel Pratt from the Extinction Countdown blog brings up an astonishing fact. More than four decades after DDT was banned, California condors in the Ventana/Big Sur area still struggle (with an unfortunate lack of success) to produce viable eggs. Pratt writes: The Ventana Wildlife Society (VWS), which manages the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) reintroduction programContinue reading “California condors (in Big Sur) still at risk from DDT”
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Just another sunset…
…along CA's Highway 1: I've left some posts for you to chew on while I'm gone, but I'm trusting the world to keep turning when I'm off in the Ventana Wilderness…'til Tuesday.
Fire in the Hills
Strange but true: the best coverage I’ve seen of the firest in Goleta and Big Sur has been coming not from the San Francisco Chronicle, not from the Los Angeles Times (although they got some good quotes yesterday), and certainly not from the Associated Press, which has been snore-inducing, but from a reporter from TheContinue reading “Fire in the Hills”
Kit Stolz 