Pomona Valley Audubon - Southern California

Conservation - California Gnatcatcher Preserve

 

Three public hearing have been scheduled to discuss the proposed habitat.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed habitat areas for the coastal California Gnatcatcher in hillside areas of the Inland Empire (shaded areas on map). The habitat proposal is expected to pass by September 30.

Listed as threatened in 1993, the California Gnatcatcher was once a common cactus scrub bird of our area but has since become quite scarce due to habitat loss. A judge two years ago required that the Fish and Wildlife Service designate land as gnatcatcher habitat in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and San Deigo counties.

Critics of the habitat plan protest that the bird is already protected and that this would change the focus from the bird's conservation to the habitat. Advocates appreciate the additional protection to the coastal sage and its other wild living things. more soon

Contact your conservation Chairman, Woody Morf at (909) 861-7762 or slm@exo.com for ways you can help or with problems that you see in our local area.

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