After six years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued their plan to keep the Western Snowy Plover from extinction. (You can sometimes see these small birds on the shoreline of our beaches; running back and forth, following the edge of ocean waves. Try looking in Pacific Beach in the Winter, when dogs are not running loose.) Unfortunately, like the Least Tern, the Western Snowy Plover also nests in beach areas that are under pressures from beach users (two and four legs) and from development.
Early assessments of the proposed plan indicates that plan depends too much on volunteers, lacks adequate funding, and might worsen the situation by relaxing federal controls.
