The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect more than a half-million acres of critical habitat across the West for the yellow-billed cuckoo, a songbird that lives along rivers and streams. The bird was proposed for Endangered Species Act protection in October 2013 as part of a 2011 agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity to speed protection decisions for 757 imperiled species nationwide. Today’s proposal would protect 546,335 acres of streamside habitat in nine western states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
"This is an important victory not just for yellow-billed cuckoos but for rivers and streams across the West," said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center, which first petitioned for the cuckoo’s protection in 1998.
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Once upon a time when a big power plant retired, it was replaced by one as big or bigger. But not anymore. Energy efficiency is increasingly reducing the need for more power. And when it is needed, distributed generation may be enough.
That's how utilities increasingly view the market, according to this year's Strategic Directions: U.S. Electric Industry report issued August 12 by Black & Veatch.
The report is based on a survey of 576 utility leaders from May 7 to May 27.
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Túnez ofrece otro mundo con paisajes fantásticos y misteriosos. ¿SabÃa usted que cuatro de las pelÃculas de Star Wars fueron parcialmente filmadas en la zona sur del paÃs? (Túnez tuvo un papel estelar como el planeta Tatooine). Ahora, añadido a las montañas del Atlas y al desierto del Sahara, la pequeña república tiene otra atracción turÃstica: un nuevo lago.
Descubierto por pastores apenas el mes pasado...
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