North Bay Business Journal

  • Nearly 5,000 more acres proposed for salamander habitat

    June 20th, 2011

    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service today said it will be considering 4,945 acres more acres to be included in potential “critical habitat” for the California tiger salamander in central Sonoma County, now possibly totaling 55,800 acres from Cotati to Windsor.

  • Regulators make nearly one-third cut proposed salamander habitat

    January 14th, 2011

    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service today released a revised proposal for the amount of central Sonoma County deemed critical habitat for the protected California tiger salamander, reducing the 74,223-acres area proposed in 2005 and 2009 by 31 percent.

  • Species find sends quarry back for study

    August 2nd, 2010

    SONOMA COUNTY — A proposed rock quarry that proponents say could fill a vital need for gravel for local projects has faced numerous environmental hurdles, chief among them the environmental impact review process after the land off Roblar Road was found to be housing an endangered species.

  • Tiger salamander gets state ‘threatened’ status

    March 5th, 2010

    CALIFORNIA — The California Fish and Game Commission voted 3-2 to designate the California tiger salamander as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act.

  • Huge protected salamander habitat resurrected

    August 17th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – Following a settlement in May with the Airzona-based Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is re-proposing a huge swath of 74,223 acres of the Santa Rosa Plain as critical habitat for the California tiger salamander, opening a 60-day public comment period.

  • Regulators settle salamander-protection suit

    May 5th, 2009

    SONOMA COUNTY — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity reached a settlement that will reopen consideration of 74,223 acres of central Sonoma County as “critical habitat” for the California tiger salamander, potentially turning back the clock on a several-year local effort to avoid such a result.

  • Guest contributor: Species issues tested in the vineyards

    October 20th, 2008

    The Northern California wine industry has become a key laboratory for significant nationwide trends in endangered-species regulation. The prominent national and California species issues that have developed recently — the continuing decline of many endangered species, the incremental impacts of global climate change and the evolving endangered species regulatory framework — are beginning to have dramatic effects on wine growers and the wine industry in general.

  • Group aims to revive salamander strategy

    July 21st, 2008

    SANTA ROSA — A novel private-public effort to restore California tiger salamander and other protected species in a large area of central Sonoma County and allow for some construction may be coming out of hibernation less than a month after the seven-year effort was nearly dead for lack of public funds and uncertainty about the regulatory outcome.

  • Brad Bollinger: Loss of salamander plan could damage the economy

    June 30th, 2008

    The apparent collapse last week of a seven-year effort driven by business and public leaders to protect the endangered tiger salamander without bringing the economy to a halt shows that if obstructionists and bureaucrats can stall long enough, they somehow win.

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