Join local beekeeper Drew Kaiser from Kaiserson Bee Company for a discussion about bees, what you can do to help them, and what it takes if you want to keep bees yourself. He’ll bring along some .
In Our Backyard No. 6: Life in the desert demands resilience, especially when lightning strikes Listen 36 min MORE America s most powerful wind farm 1.5 gigawatts in size, enough to generate electricity for a city of millions is on the edge of the Mojave at the foot of the Tehachapi Pass, site of one of the earliest and still largest collections of windmills in the world. Altogether, there are more than 5,000 turbines in the area, and the newest and largest are nearly 500 feet to the tip of the blade. Photo by Steve Boland/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The California desert is a precious asset, famous for soaring mountains and majestic valleys. But it’s hardly a wasteland. “There’s been human activity for thousands of years,” says Mike Gauthier, Superintendent of the Mojave National Preserve.
Tortoise Movers Sue Florida Commission for $500K for Moving Too Fast to Revoke License May 14, 2021
Two men who relocate gopher tortoises are suing Florida’s wildlife commission, saying they should be awarded at least $500,000 in damages because the agency violated due process by prematurely revoking their company’s license for less than three weeks.
The lawsuit names the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and one of its employees, Claire Sunquist Blunden. It was filed in Leon County Circuit Court by Kaiser Consulting Group LLC, Drew Kaiser and John Wilson, The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.
Gopher tortoises are listed as threatened and must be relocated prior to land development. The state accused Kaiser and Wilson of failing to report dead tortoises, overstocking pens for the tortoises and not maintaining a pen that was in disrepair.