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Canebrake Ecological Reserve is a 6,700-acre (27 km 2) [2] nature reserve in the South Fork Valley of Kern County, 20 miles (32 km) east of Lake Isabella, California. It is located in the Southern Sierra Nevada region. Historian Wallace M. Morgan, in History of Kern County, California, wrote that the South Fork Valley was the first area settled ...
The 3,000-acre (12 km 2) [3] preserve provides habitat for rare and Audubon's endangered birds, one of which is the federally listed endangered southwestern willow flycatcher, [4] a subspecies of the willow flycatcher. The preserve is located within a designated Globally Important Bird Area, a program of the National Audubon Society with its ...
The southwestern willow flycatcher (E. t. extimus) is a federally endangered subspecies found in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. It was listed in 1995, when it was known to breed at only about 75 sites in riparian areas throughout the American southwest. The breeding population was estimated at between 300 ...
These efforts have helped protect a refuge for birds including willow flycatchers and yellow-billed cuckoos. As he pointed to several dead trees poking from the living cottonwoods, he said ...
Area. 820 acres (330 ha) The San Pedro River Preserve is a Nature Conservancy preserve in Dudleyville, Arizona . The Preserve comprises 820 acres (3.3 km 2) of deeded land along the San Pedro River acquired for the protection of southwestern willow flycatcher ( Empidonax traillii extimus) habitat. There are two miles of cottonwood/willow riparian.
Havasu National Wildlife Refuge is a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California. It preserves habitat for desert bighorn sheep, the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher, and other animals. The refuge protects 30 river miles - 300 miles (480 km) of shoreline - from Needles, California, to Lake Havasu ...
The West Wetlands Park is a public city park [1] in the northwest edge of Yuma, Arizona. It is located along the Colorado River within the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. [2][3] The park opened in December of 2002 [4] on 110 acres of city-owned land. [5][6] It was partially constructed by community volunteers. [7]
On May 27, 2011, a U.S. District judge ruled that Fort Huachaca's plan to pump 6,100 acre-feet (7,500,000 m 3) of groundwater without mitigation plans to replenish the San Pedro River flows failed to protect the endangered Southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) and the Huachuca water umbel so they could recover from their imperiled ...