Second year in a row on Gavin Newsom's watch:
'California’s water management decisions have played a significant role in the species’ decline over the years — cutting off the fish from spawning grounds and decreasing the cold water the salmon need.'

Curious if there’s another way to supply solar power to 100,000 homes in San Diego other than using desert tortoise habitat 250 miles away in Nevada? Any ideas?

The number of dairy cow herds where #H5N1 #birdflu infection has been detected has increased to 20, in 6 states. It was 17 yesterday.
Breakdown is: Texas, 9; NM, 4; Kansas, 3; Mich, 2; Idaho & Ohio, 1 each.
aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

With his much-read essay on NPR, Uri Berliner has added to the episodic data on partisan leanings of mainstream U.S. newsrooms. In NPR's D.C. HQ a few years ago, he found 87 Dem journos and 0 Republican journos. thefp.com/p/npr-editor-h…

Went to Indianapolis for the total eclipse. Exceeded every expectation. Breathtaking.

EcoHealth president Peter Daszak to testify before Congress on May 1. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

Bird Flu Spreads to Cattle, Raising Fears on Farms wsj.com/finance/commod…

A few FOIA documents that I received from USGS today re: DEFUSE, etc: documentcloud.org/documents/2452…

Solar projects could be developed on one million acres across all western public lands, an area one-and-a-half times the size of Rhode Island.

A person in Texas has been diagnosed with a rare case of bird flu, marking the second known human infection ever in the United States, officials announced Monday. trib.al/4tNGlFv

“Objectivity is not ‘on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand journalism,’ said Baron. But the perception that it is has prompted some in and outside the profession to argue that ‘moral clarity’ should replace objectivity as journalists’ goal.”
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

American Nightmares: Wang Huning and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Dark Visions of the Future – The Scholar's Stage by ⁦T. Greer⁩ scholars-stage.org/american-night…

She really was one of a kind

Biden admin updates endangered species protections, reversing some Trump rollbacks but leaving others in place

via Zack Budryk

thehill.com/policy/energy-…

Global outdoor leadership and skills organization, NOLS, headquartered in the
small mountain town of Lander, plans to eliminate 60 positions and close
three campuses. wyofile.com/lander-based-o…

Unglamorous, often ignored, and deadly for fish populations, killer culverts lurk beneath roads and railways worldwide. I had the pleasure of editing this Ben Goldfarb story for Hakai Magazine about what the US is doing so solve its culvert crisis: hakaimagazine.com/features/light…

A Houthi court in Yemen sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23 in an unfair mass trial based on dubious charges of “sodomy.” Death sentences can include crucifixion and stoning. The other 23 men were imprisoned for periods of up to 10 years. hrw.org/news/2024/03/2…