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NOT
FOR EDUCATORS ONLY: The Desert Tortoise - Do's and Don'ts
 Like
other reptiles, the desert tortoise is cold-blooded. To survive in the
desert, the tortoise estivates (remains underground in its burrow) during
the hottest times of the day during the summer and hibernates (sleeps
underground in its burrow) during the cold of winter. Tortoises come out
in the spring to eat grasses and wildflowers and drink water from the
spring rains (although they obtain most of their water from the plants
they eat). Also in spring, they socialize and look for mates. At other
times of the year, they are less active above ground.
http://www.ca.blm.gov/ridgecrest/tortoise.html
BOOKSTORE FEATURE: TOPO! San Francisco
Bay Area on CD ROM
Interactive Maps on CD-ROM for Windows 3.1, 95 & NT. This version
covers San Francisco Bay, Wine Country, and Big Sur areas. http://store.ca.blm.gov/webc/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=225
HEADLINES AND HIGHLIGHTS
"CRITICS RAISING CONCERNS
ABOUT CADIZ WATER PROJECT" (Los Angeles Times, 05/19/2002)
Metropolitan Water District agreement with Cadiz, Inc. to supply Los Angeles
area with stored and existing water from beneath the Mojave Desert: critics
question financial part of the agreement.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000035236may19.story
"TRAILS SYSTEM IN POWAY BECOMING A REALITY" (North County
Times, 05/19/2002)
Others cities now call City of Poway in southern California to learn how
they developed their trail system -- used by hikers, equestrians, mountain
bikers and others -- serves as a model for other areas. Poway got a "jump
start" on the trails two decades ago, when BLM turned over 1,850
acres, on condition the city built trails on the land.
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020519/62211.html
"FEDS MAY PROTECT HUGE NAPA WILDERNESS" (Napa Valley
register, 05/19/2002)
"Bill authored by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, would give [more
than 10,000 acres of] federally owned land around Lake Berryessa additional
protection from motorized vehicles, roads and development." Includes
BLM-managed lands. Related to wilderness bill proposed by Sen. Barbara
Boxer.
http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=C015D29D-A92B-4070-B7D2-33EBFE6337B7
Related: "RCRC TACKLES SOME INYO ISSUES" (Inyo Register,
05/19/2002)
Sen. Barbara Boxer's wilderness bill among top agenda items at Regional
Council of Rural Counties monthly meeting -- and will be at June meeting,
also. Five rural counties reported to oppose it.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4197913&BRD=2270&PAG=461&dept_id=468891&rfi=6
"LIZARD KEY PLAYER IN QUECHAN CREATION STORY" (Imperial
Valley Press, 05/20/2002)
One of the voices in debate over uses of BLM California's management of
Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation area: Tribal singer tells of importance
of lizards to his people, and need to protect them in the dunes.
http://ivpressonline.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/May/20-1506-news01.txt
"BLM NAMES NEW MEMBERS
OF MANAGEMENT TEAM" (BLM National news release, 5/23/02)
Moves include Elaine Marquis-Brong, former Deputy State Director for Support
Services in the California State Office selected state director of BLM
Oregon, and Elena Daly, former field office manager in California selected
Assistant Director for the National Landscape Conservation System.
http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/releases/pages/2002/pr020523_management.htm
"LOCAL BUREAU OF LAND
MANAGEMENT VOLUNTEERS AMONG NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS" (BLM California
news release, 05/17/2002)
Pete Fish of the BLM Ridgecrest, California Field Office, and Leon Lesicka,
of the El Centro, California Field Office, are among the nine national
volunteer award winners. Rose Foster, Volunteer Coordinator for the BLM
Barstow, California Field Office, was one of three BLM employees selected
for recognition for outstanding leadership in the BLM Volunteer program.
http://www.ca.blm.gov/news/2002/05/nr/CDDnews53_volunteer_awards_localized.html
Related: "VOLUNTEER PROGRAM"
(BLM California Web page)
Information on BLM California's volunteer program.
http://www.ca.blm.gov/caso/volunteers.html
SELECTED UPCOMING EVENTS
5/23/2002 - Ridgecrest Steering Committee
BLM Ridgecrest Field Office
6/01/2002 - Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
Advisory Committee Meeting
Palm Desert
http://www.ca.blm.gov/news/2002/03/nr/SRSJMNMnews01_MAC_meeting_sched.html
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Native
to southern Europe. Invades various soil types on waste areas, roadsides,
pastures and dry rangelands. Toxic to horses as it causes "chewing
disease." Once a plant invades a site it may sit without increasing
for several years. It becomes genetically adapted to that site and then
the population explodes; it spreads rapidly.