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The Endangered Species Problem
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In Southern California, a novel approach to saving entire habitats and ecosystems is being attempted by a variety of governmental agencies and NGOs. The effort is called the Multiple Species Conservation Plan (MSCP), and if successful, will serve as a model throughout the United States to provide large, viable, interconnected tracts of habitat that will prevent species from being pushed toward extinction, and consequently ending up on various endangered species lists. The ESRC has recently played a small role in this process, by lending its expertise to the County of San Diego to review a report on one of the species of directed concern to the plan, the Grasshopper Sparrow. Our assistance will aid the county to better plan to preserve this species' habitat in the few locations in San Diego County where it still occurs. |
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