>   SKIPPER GETS EMERGENCY LISTING: The Carson
> wandering skipper, a small
>   tawny-orange butterfly with two small populations
> in Nevada and
>   California" has been granted emergency ESA
> protection says the USFWS
>   11/29. Only two populations remain after a third
> near Carson City was
>   "eliminated" when a highway bypass destroyed its
> habitat. The two
>   remaining populations face "immediate extinction
> threats" from grazing,
>   urbanization and water diversions which lower
> water tables essential to
>   maintaining its larval food source, salt grass."
>
>  SOUND FAMILIAR? We are facing a similar situation
at Rock Island Sand Prairie Preserve

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