News Releases
		24 June 2008 -- California Sea Otters: Population Recovery Continues at Slower Rate 3 December 2007 -- Conference Will Address Integrating Riparian Habitat Conservation and Flood Management in California 30 November 2007 -- USGS Expert Analyzes Recent Fires at San Diego Senate Hearing 7 November 2007 -- USGS Cameras Capture Dramatic Wildfire-Wildlife Images Note: The photographs/captions for the above news release can also be found on the WERC website at USGS Cameras Capture Dramatic Wildfire-Wildlife Images 6 August 2007 -- Tree Deaths in California’s Sierra Nevada Increase as Temperatures Rise 18 July 2007 -- Study Pinpoints How Humans and Urban Sprawl Influence California Fire Regimes 16 July 2007 -- USGS Botanists Help Identify a New Orchid, the Yosemite Bog-Orchid 31 May 2007 -- California Sea Otters – 2007 Survey Count Reaches New High 29 May 2007 -- Research Finds That Breakdown Products of Widely Used Pesticides are Acutely Lethal to Amphibians 17 January 2007 -- Desert Tortoises Draw Researchers and Managers to Las Vegas 17 January 2007 -- USGS Studies Document a Changing Mojave Desert 6 September 2006 -- Satellites Help Scientists Track Migratory Birds: GPS the Latest Tool in Fight Against Avian Influenza 6 September 2006 -- USGS Scientist Receives California Waterfowl Association's "Dennis G. Raveling Award" 10 August 2006 -- USGS Report Finds Too Few Studies Assess the Success of Desert Tortoise Recovery Actions 2 August 2006 -- Cat Parasite May Affect Cultural Traits in Human Populations 10 July 2006 -- Parasites, the Thread of Food Webs? 27 June 2006 -- California Sea Otters -- 2006 Survey Numbers Dip But Overall Population Trend Remains Up 26 June 2006 -- USGS Scientist to Discuss Ecological Role of Predatory Mammals at Biology Conference 6 February 2006 -- Are Artificial Night Lights Among Threats to Declining Reptiles? 27 September 2005 -- They’re Back! Rare California Frogs Turn up Again in City Creek 22 August 2005 -- A Delicate Balance: Salt Ponds, Wetland Restoration and Wildlife in San Francisco Bay 4 August 2005 -- Steven Schwarzbach Appointed Director of USGS Western Ecological Research Center 5 July 2005 -- California Sea Otters – 2005 Survey Numbers Dip But Overall Population Trend Remains Up 30 June 2005 -- Finding the Needle in a Big Haystack: Locating Surf Scoter Nests in the Northern Boreal Forest 26 April 2005 -- "Live Fast, Die Young" Also Applies to Forests 5 April 2005 -- USGS Scientist Receives the George Melendez Wright Award for Excellence 1 September 2004 -- Precipice of Survival: The Southern Sea Otter 1 August 2004 -- New System Developed to Assess Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes and Prioritize Them for Control 16 June 2004 -- California Sea Otter Numbers Climb for Second Consecutive Year 26 May 2004 -- Scientists Focus Research on Understanding Causes of Changes in Western Mountains 13 April 2004 -- USGS-Cornell Study Marks Increased Trends in Infectious Disease Occurrences in Our Oceans 30 October 2003 -- USGS Research Indicates Fire Suppression and Fuel Buildup are Not Responsible for Shrubland Fires in Southern California 29 September 2003 -- Scientists Estimate Risk of Raven Predation on Desert Tortoises in the Western Mojave Desert 25 September 2003 -- Snowy Plover “Nursery” Success Earns Resource Stewardship Award 22 September 2003 -- Collapsing Populations of Marine Mammals: the North Pacific’s Whaling Legacy? 15 July 2003 -- USGS Report Documents Alien Plants in Sequoia-Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks 18 June 2003 -- USGS Scientist is Recipient of Wilderness Science Award 06 June 2003 -- California Sea Otter Numbers are Up for the 2003 Census 12 March 2003 -- USGS Scientist to Receive Ed Ricketts Marine Science Award 06 February 2003 -- They’re Healthier: With Fewer Parasites, Invaders Gain Competitive Edge over Native Animals and Plants 13 November 2002 -- "Hurricane" Turtles of South Carolina’s Tidal Creeks 15 October 2002 -- Scientists Study the Long and Short of Pintail Duck Migration 24 July 2002 -- Radios Lead Researchers to Nests of Elusive Marbled Murrelets 01 July 2002 -- It’s a World Made for Parasites, or Is It? 11 June 2002 -- California Sea Otter Numbers Slide for Second Straight Year 24 April 2002 -- Native Americans Were First Land Managers of California’s Coastal Ranges 24 April 2002 -- Buffelgrass, an Invader Fueling Wildfires in the Sonoran Desert 13 December 2001 -- The Spirit of the Season Seen in the General Grant Sequoia, the Nation’s Living Christmas Tree 27 November 2001 -- Past Fire Regime Is Key to Managing Chaparral Fires in Southern California 07 November 2001 -- There’s Room for Shorebirds Too 09 October 2001 -- What Wildfire Research Tells Us About Fire Risk in California 03 October 2001 -- Weeding Things out in the Arid Southwest 29 August 2001 -- Predicting How a River Channel Redevelops After Disturbance 26 July 2001 -- Scientists Examine the Seas Our Ancestors Fished to Better Understand Today's Changing Oceans 12 June 2001 -- Fewer California Sea Otters Tallied in Spring 2001 Survey But Population Size Remains Roughly Stable 30 April 2001 -- Team Spawns Rare White Abalone: It's a Girl! It's a Boy! It's 6 Million Baby Mollusks! 21 March 2001 -- Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California on the Web 06 March 2001 -- Removal of Obsolete Forest Roads Can Reduce Erosion and Sediment That Impair Salmon-bearing Streams 22 December 2000 -- California Ravens Are a Breed Apart 07 December 2000 -- Annual Ceremony at General Grant Tree -- Sunday 07 December 2000 -- USGS Research Finds that Contaminants May Play an Important Role in California Amphibian Declines 06 December 2000 -- World's Largest Tree is Younger Than Once Thought 04 October 2000 -- Visit Three New USGS Websites During Earth Science Week 26 September 2000 -- Mercury from Gold Rush Found in Fish 09 June 2000 -- USGS Reports Increase of California Sea Otters in Recent Survey 02 May 2000 -- From Sea Turtles to Night Skies: Meeting to Showcase Collaborative Efforts in Safeguarding Desert Resources 21 April 2000 -- Come Fly with the Ducks at This New USGS Website 29 March 2000 -- Chytrid Fungus Implicated as Factor in Decline of Arizona Frogs 25 February 2000 -- California Southcoast Bioregion is Subject of Science Meeting 25 February 2000 -- Media Advisory: Planning for Biodiversity in Southern California 22 October 1999 -- New Study Underscores Fragility of Southern California Deserts 15 October 1999 -- On the Floor of the Sea: Biologists Search for Rare White Abalone 14 October 1999 -- Media Advisory: On the Floor of the Sea: Watch While Biologists Search for Rare White Abalone 29 September 1999 -- USGS Finds Elevated Levels of Organochlorine Pesticides in Aleutian Bald Eagles 21 September 1999 -- USGS Scientist Receives Award From National Park Service 17 September 1999 -- USGS Studies Wildfire Ecology in the Western United States 13 July 1999 -- USGS Scientist Awarded Prestigious Marine Conservation Fellowship 21 June 1999 -- USGS Reports Continued Decline of California Sea Otters 10 June 1999 -- USGS Study Casts Doubt on Role of Fire Suppression in Causing Catastrophic Shrubland Wildfires 26 March 1999 -- USGS Scientists Speak on Rare Plants and Invasive Species at Santa Barbara Symposium 22 February 1999 -- Mojave Desert Is Subject of Las Vegas Science Meeting 17 December 1998 -- USGS and Partners to Evaluate Impact of Habitat Restoration on Migratory Waterfowl in the Central Valley of California 15 October 1998 -- USGS finds sea otters at risk from killer whales in a changing ocean

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