BLM California News.bytes Issue 585

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News.bytes

A publication of Bureau of Land Management in California

Issue 585 - June 27, 2013


THIS WEEK IN NEWS.BYTES:
- America's Great Outdoors
- On our Facebook pages
- On our other social media pages
- Not for educators only: Wildlife trivia question of the week
- Renewable energy
- Environmental items
- Fire news
- Headlines and highlights: Assorted topics from your public lands in California
- National and Department of the Interior items
- Selected upcoming events
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SUMMER in AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS!

The Department of the Interior is launching a summer photo project
called "Summer in America's Great Outdoors," where we're asking folks
to submit their favorite photos from their visits to America's public
lands. Let's show everyone the diverse range of activities one can do
on America's public lands!
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AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS

"Enjoy The Silence: The Inaudible Wonders Of The Carrizo Plain"
(KCET - The Back Forty, 06/14/13)
The Carrizo Plain National Monument in Central California is best
known as a springtime wildflower paradise, with fields and hillsides
blanketed in an array of colors. But for most of the year, the
250,000-acre valley, located halfway between Bakersfield and San Luis
Obispo, sports an arid, golden brown look. Here on the Carrizo Plain,
buffered by mountains and distance, the great urban lion has been
hushed. My nostalgia for noise was suddenly supplanted by my savor for
silence.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,4o11,826z,283f,37zd

RELATED: "Carrizo Plain National Monument" (Bakersfield Field Office)
The Carrizo Plain, 100 airline miles (160 km) north of Los Angeles,
California is an area by-passed by time. Soda Lake, its centerpiece,
is a glistening bed of white salt, set within a vast open grassland,
rimmed by mountains.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,54x2,lfgr,283f,37zd

"Summer Evenings In the Desert"
(KCET - The Back Forty, 06/14/13)
Even when the day is hot, at 3,500 feet sundown brings pretty rapid
cooling. The day's stored heat radiates up into the sky. The breeze
raises the hairs on my neck. 95 degrees seems sweet after a
triple-digit day, and the mid-80s sweeter still, and the slanting,
coloring light draws me deeper into the desert.One can walk off into
the sunset only so far. Eventually the sun sets all the way and you
have to turn around and walk back. The shadow of San Gorgonio fills
the Morongo Basin the way Clark Mountain's filled the Ivanpah Valley,
and the far slopes of the Sheepholes stay brightly lit enough to
silhouette the Joshua trees for the next half hour.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,2ha,2vqb,283f,37zd

RELATED: "San Gorgino Wilderness" (Palm Springs Field Office)
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,14te,ikz,283f,37zd


ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGES...

...Neil Hamada, Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area Manager, was
interviewed by Rob McMillan of ABC7. They discussed the BLM mission
and he was asked about the Recreation Area Management Plan.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,8dvd,d13k,283f,37zd


RELATED: ABC7 Interview
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ON OUR OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES...

...California's very own own Bob Wick took this amazing photo of the
supermoon setting over the Centennial Mountains WSA in SW Montana. A
sight to behold.
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NOT for EDUCATORS ONLY:


WILDLIFE TRIVIA QUESTION of the WEEK:

How does the common kingsnake subdue its prey?

(a.) with venom
(b.) by repeated biting
(c.) by constriction
(d.) by drowning it
(e.) by frightening it to death
(f.) by capturing its knight, bishop and queen

See answer near the end of this News.bytes.


RENEWABLE ENERGY

"Smilodon Brings Smiles" (News.bytes Extra)
Several weeks ago, a few fossilized bone fragments were unearthed in a
trench on the Desert Sunlight solar power project near Desert Center,
Calif. At first they were assumed to be of the extinct American Lion.
The bones were sent to the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los
Angeles where they identified them as part of an ice-age Smilodon.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,fliv,457a,283f,37zd

RELATED: "Desert Sunlight Solar Project" (Palm Springs Field Office)
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,7zml,c32w,283f,37zd

"Calico Solar Plans Withdrawn" (The Press-Enterprise, 06/24/13)
The developer of a controversial plan to cover as much of six square
miles of public land with solar panels east of Barstow has abandoned
the endeavor, citing changed market conditions.The K Road Calico Solar
Project had been proposed in an ecologically sensitive area north of
Interstate 40, between Ludlow and Newberry Springs.The land, about 37
miles east of Barstow, would have been covered with photovoltaic
panels, generating - at full capacity - electricity for 250,000 homes.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,2jpg,9hru,283f,37zd

RELATED: "K Road Calico Solar Project" (Barstow Field Office)
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,6y3i,hogw,283f,37zd


ENVIRONMENTAL ITEMS

"$84-million Removal of a Dam on Carmel River Set to Begin"
(Los Angeles Times, 06/23/13)
The Carmel river is overpumped. Flood plain has been lost to
development, and the silted-up San Clemente is vulnerable to collapse
in an earthquake, threatening 1,500 downstream structures. But next
month, in what officials say is the state's largest-ever dam removal,
work will begin on a three-year project to dismantle the 106-foot-tall
concrete dam and reroute half a mile of the river. The dam property
includes 928 acres of chaparral and oak woodlands that American Water
will donate to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management - the federal
government's largest landowner - when the demolition is complete.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,g6cf,ji1n,283f,37zd

"Marijuana Crops in California Threaten Forests and Wildlife"
(The New York Times, 06/20/13)
It took the death of a small, rare member of the weasel family to
focus the attention of Northern California's marijuana growers on the
impact that their huge and expanding activities were having on the
environment. Brad Job's territory as a federal Bureau of Land
Management officer includes public lands favored, he said, by Mexican
drug cartels whose environmental practices are the most destructive.
"The watershed was already lying on the ground bleeding," Mr. Job
said. "The people who divert water in the summer are kicking it in the
stomach."
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,905a,1pki,283f,37zd

"Wyden: Price Tag Too High on Klamath Basin Deals"
(The San Francisco Chronicle, 06/20/13)
Drought has again brought the water struggles of the high-desert
Klamath Basin to national attention. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, chairman of
the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, held a hearing aimed at
reducing the cost of an agreement to restore tribal fisheries and
guarantee water for irrigators, and to resolve issues that remain
divisive in the basin."We can figure this out," Wyden told
representatives of the array of interest groups in the region of
Southern Oregon and Northern California that suffers recurrent
drought.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,hiqf,13q6,283f,37zd

RELATED: "Klamath Basin" (Arcata Field Office)
The counties of Interior Northern California and South-Central Oregon
offer unmatched outdoor adventure and recreation in an area three
times the size of
Massachusetts.http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,2sne,88m3,283f,37zd

"BLM Seeking Public Comments on Prosper Ridge Prairie Environmental
Assessment" (BLM, 06/21/13)
An environmental assessment analyzing effects of several alternatives
for restoring coastal prairies in the King Range National Conservation
Area has been released by the Bureau of Land Management for public
review and comment.The BLM is proposing to reduce the number
encroaching Douglas-fir trees and other woody plants to restore about
800 acres to a coastal prairie dominated by grasses.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,79p,m8wl,283f,37zd


FIRE NEWS

"Back Country Horsemen Help With Fire Recovery in Wilderness"
(News.bytes Extra)
Members of the Back Country Horsemen of California lent their
expertise and horsepower - literally - when the BLM's Surprise Field
Office was faced with a daunting task of replacing miles of
wildfire-damaged fences in the High Rock and Little High Wilderness
Areas of Northwest Nevada.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,f56m,6dgx,283f,37zd

"Honoring Luke Sheehy" (News.bytes Extra)
Members of the firefighting community joined friends and family
members of fallen firefighter Luke Sheehy at Redding's Civic
Auditorium Sunday, June 23, to remember and honor the Forest Service
smokejumper who died June 10 while fighting a fire in the Warner
Wilderness of the Modoc National Forest in northeast California.The
BLM sends its deepest condolences to Luke's family and friends, and to
the firefighting community.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,bhfr,1l3r,283f,37zd

"BLM Issues Fire Prevention Orders for California Desert District"
(BLM, 06/21/13)
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released Fire Prevention
Orders that address year-round and seasonal fire restrictions. The
Fire Prevention Orders assist with wildland fire prevention efforts
throughout public lands within the California Desert Conservation Area
(CDCA) as well as public lands outside the CDCA in Los Angeles, San
Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego Counties.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,9p95,lqld,283f,37zd

"BLM Bishop Field Office & Inyo National Forest Announce Fire Restrictions"
(BLM, 06/24/13)
Effective Friday, June 28, the Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field
Office and the Inyo National Forest are implementing fire
restrictions.The restrictions are in effect on all BLM public lands
managed by the Bishop Field Office and all Inyo National Forest lands,
including wilderness areas."Ongoing drought conditions, well below
average rain and snowfall this past winter and warmer than average
temperatures have led to very dry conditions for this time of year,"
said Inyo National Forest Supervisor Ed Armenta. "We are experiencing
very high fire danger and continued hot and dry weather patterns here
in the eastern Sierra."
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,2s1l,kiqx,283f,37zd


HEADLINES and HIGHLIGHTS

"Palm Springs BLM Educates Local Communities with Jr. Ranger Program's
OHV Safety Message" (News.bytes Extra)
A Junior Ranger grant from the State of California Department of Parks
and Recreation Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division funding
has provided for off-highway vehicle (OHV) - related education and
safety activities within the BLM Palm Springs- South Coast Field
Office. The Junior Ranger program brings together safety messages from
Tread Lightly! and the National OHV Conservation Council to create a
safe, positive OHV-recreation environment.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,12pf,1ozb,283f,37zd

"BLM and Partners Dedicate New Trail Bridge at Clear Creek"
(News.bytes Extra) Hikers and bicyclists in the Redding Field Office's
Clear Creek Greenway now have a safe and scenic way to cross between
two trail networks, thanks to a partnership involving federal, state
and local agencies and a private organization. A June 20 ribbon
cutting celebration marked the opening of a new footbridge connecting
the Piety Hill Trails with more than 12 miles of routes in the Clear
Creek Greenway.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,l2u3,776i,283f,37zd

"Cultural Site Protection Expanded" (News.bytes Extra)
A new network of volunteers has emerged in Southern California after
weekend training in cultural site preservation. At the Palm Springs
South Coast Field Office, the California Archaeological Site
Stewardship Program (CASSP) workshop brought together people committed
to protecting regional cultural heritage sites.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,gkwr,69gl,283f,37zd

"Oil Pipeline Could Take Basin Route" (Hi-Desert Star, 06/19/13)
Questar Southern Trails is considering whether to build a pipeline
that would transport crude oil through parts of the Morongo Basin.The
other route coincides with a Bureau of Land Management utility
corridor south of here near Interstate 10. The company is conducting
aerial surveys along the BLM utility corridor. About 1,050 land owners
in the region between Essex and Whitewater were sent notices of the
proposed oil pipeline project, requesting permission to enter private
property for surveying purposes.The surveying work is not invasive,
according to Questar.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,m5rh,gdgk,283f,37zd


NATIONAL and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ITEMS

"Interior Releases First-Ever Comprehensive National Assessment of
Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage Potential" (DOI, 06/26/13)
The United States has the potential to store a mean of 3,000 metric
gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in geologic basins throughout the
country, according to the first-ever detailed national geologic carbon
sequestration assessment released today by the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS). The assessment comes on the heels of a national plan to combat
climate change announced by President Obama.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,hbw6,a95c,283f,37zd

"30 US Reps Seek Reforms for BLM's Horse Budget"
(San Francisco Chronicle, 06/20/13)
Thirty U.S. representatives urged new U.S. Interior Secretary Sally
Jewell to make a priority out of reforming the government's wild horse
management program and its spiraling budget that they say has created
an "untenable situation" for both the mustangs and taxpayers. The
majority of the co-signers were from states in the East and South, but
several joined from states that are home to some of the estimated
37,000 free-roaming wild horses and burros on federal land in the
West, including Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo.,
five representatives from California and three from Oregon.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,l6f7,2w9e,283f,37zd


SELECTED UPCOMING EVENTS

July 13 - "Upcoming Wild Horse and Burro Adoption" (News.bytes Extra)
The Bureau of Land Management brings its Wild Horse and Burro Adoption
Program to Taylor Made Farms, 560 Church Ave., San Martin, CA, on
Saturday, July 13.The BLM will offer 30 horses, mostly yearlings, and
10 burros for public adoption. Anyone interested can preview the
animals when they arrive at about 3 p.m. on Friday, July 12.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,jhqr,4y36,283f,37zd

RELATED: "BLM Adoption in San Martin Includes Wild Horses, Burros and
Halter-Gentled Mustangs" (BLM, 06/26/13)
In addition to the wild horses from the Litchfield Corrals, the
adoption will include four mustang geldings halter gentled by Karen
Topping"s riding group at Taylor Made Farms. One of the project horses
is a yearling and the others are two year olds. Those horses also will
be available for preview from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, July 12.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1jfev,3xn3,ga2h,iorb,283f,37zd


WILDLIFE TRIVIA ANSWER

(c.) by constriction

SOURCE: "Common Kingsnake" (BLM California Wildlife Database)
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