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THIS WEEK IN NEWS.BYTES:
- America's Great Outdoors
- On our Facebook page
- Not for educators only: Wildlife trivia question of the week
- Wild horses and burros
- Wildfires and prevention
- Renewable energy
- Headlines and highlights: Assorted topics from your public lands in California
- Selected upcoming events
- National and Department of the Interior items
- More wildlife stories from your public lands (and elsewhere)

This issue of BLM California News.bytes is online at:
www.blm.gov/ca/news/newsbytes/2013/565.html


AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS

"Alabama Hills Volunteer work day planned" (BLM, 1/25/13)
Saturday, Feb. 2 - The Alabama Hills Stewardship Group and the BLM
Bishop Field Office will sponsor a volunteer work day in the Alabama
Hills from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. "Work will focus on maintaining and
extending previous restoration work in the Alabama Hills," said Dave
Kirk, Alabama Hills steward in the Bishop Field Office. "Volunteers
will restore impacted areas by vertical mulching and will pick up
litter."
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2013/january/alabamahills.html

"Dog hike" (BLM El Centro Field Office)
Sat., Feb. 23: Bring your well-behaved best friend and join a BLM Park
Ranger for an easy hike in Fossil Canyon, near Ocotillo, CA.
Fossilized shells embedded in canyon walls beg the question...how did
they get here? Join the fun and find out! Hike is free, but
participation is by reservation - limit 10 dogs or 20 hikers.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/doghikes.html

"Marathoners delight in BLM's Sacramento River Rail Trail" (News.bytes Extra)
The shimmering Sacramento River provided a beautiful backdrop for
participants in the Redding Marathon, where competitors used sections
of the BLM's Sacramento Rail Trail system for the grueling race. The
Jan. 20 event attracted 201 marathon runners, 99 relay teams and
participants in various shorter races.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2013/redding_marathon_sacramento_river_trail.html

"Improvements 'taking root' in Sacramento River Bend area" (News.bytes Extra)
Years of work by BLM specialists in various disciplines are paying off
with benefits to people and wildlife at the Sacramento River Bend
Outstanding Natural Area near the northern California communities of
Redding and Red Bluff. Natural features and developed recreation sites
are attracting increasing numbers of wildlife, hosting growing
populations of aquatic life and providing more recreation
opportunities for residents and visitors to the region along the
Tehama-Shasta county border.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2013/565xtra_sacriver_wetlands_plus.html

"Public access to Trinity River improves with BLM acquisition"
(News.bytes Extra)
Public access to the Trinity River, including a Wild and Scenic reach
managed by the BLM Redding Field Office, has improved with public
acquisition of a riverside parcel. The field office used about
$412,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to acquire the six
acres near the community of Lewiston. The area is popular for swimming
and fishing.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2013/565xtra_trinity_river_better_access.html

RELATED: "BLM has openings for volunteer campground hosts" (BLM, 1/29/13)
Opportunities to live and work in beautiful northern California
outdoor settings are being offered by the BLM, in volunteer host
positions in Trinity County. Along the Trinity River, the BLM needs
campground hosts at Douglas City, Steelbridge, and Junction City
campgrounds for a season that runs from May through November.
Volunteer hosts live on site in their own campers or camp trailers.
The BLM provides varying levels of services such as water, septic,
phone and power connections, depending on the site. There is no
salary, but the BLM provides allowances to cover living expenses.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2013/january/trinity_campground_hosts.html

"Mojave Maxine Emergence Contest" (The Living Desert)
It's that time of year when the desert tortoise Mojave Maxine,
sleeping in her underground burrow at The Living Desert, begins to
stir in anticipation of desert springtime and fresh flowers to eat.
This also means it's time for Southern California students to enter
the annual Mojave Maxine emergence contest and guess when she will
emerge! The east coast has Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day to let
them know when they can expect spring. The Living Desert has Mojave
Maxine to signify that warmer weather is on the way!
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,c32n,ly,283f,37zd

"Rob on the Road: Cosumnes River Preserve" (KVIE Sacramento, 1/24/13)
"Few things are more awe inspiring than nature and the Cosumnes River
Preserve in Galt will take your breath away. Explore the preserve with
Rob for the annual sandhill crane migration, where thousands of birds
flock from Alaska!"
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,k0d,e5km,283f,37zd

RELATED: "Bird festival brings flock of photographers, nature lovers
to Galt" (Sacramento Bee, 1/27/13)
The Galt Winter Bird Festival, "a day of informational sessions and
tours of the Cosumnes River Preserve, drew hundreds of participants.
The 46,000-acre preserve is home to about 100,000 birds, according to
naturalists who count birds there every two weeks. About 17,000 snow
geese were spotted during the last count. The population fluctuates
greatly, however, depending on the season."
www.sacbee.com/2013/01/27/5143676/bird-festival-brings-flock-of.html

RELATED: "Cosumnes River Preserve" (BLM Mother Lode Field Office)
www.sacbee.com/2013/01/27/5143676/bird-festival-brings-flock-of.html

"16th Annual Dunes Clean-up a success!" (News.bytes Extra)
Almost 1,000 volunteers participated in the 16th Annual Clean-up at
the Imperial Sand Dunes on Saturday, Jan. 19. The event, held over the
Martin Luther King weekend, is popular among dune enthusiasts, many of
whom plan their visit to the dunes around the long weekend, just so
they'll be able to take part.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2013/565xtra_isdra_cleanup_2013.html


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NOT for EDUCATORS ONLY:
ringtail
WILDLIFE TRIVIA QUESTION of the WEEK:
Miners once kept ringtail around their camps, to:
(a.) kill mice.
(b.) ward off snakes.
(c.) call out an alarm when someone approached their claim.
(d.) sleep at the foot of their sleeping bags, to prevent frostbite.
(e.) perform tricks, for cheap entertainment on long winter nights.
(f.) imagine how many views they could get with cute ringtail videos,
if only YouTube would hurry up and be invented.
See answer - and more wildlife stories - near the end of this News.bytes.


RENEWABLE ENERGY

"Solar plant can deliver after dark" (Palm Springs Desert Sun, 1/31/13)
SolarReserve's Rice project is expensive for a solar project, but the
"150-megawatt solar thermal plant comes with a molten salt storage
system that can stockpile power generated by the sun for up to 8-10
hours. Rice could be the first solar project with this kind of storage
capacity in the state, bringing it closer to traditional power plants
that provide baseline power, on call any time, or a natural gas peaker
plant, used to back up more intermittent solar or wind power." A
"nosedive in solar panel prices" drove early solar themal projects out
of business, "but solar thermal seems to be making a comeback in the
east county with three projects either in construction or in the
pipeline."
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,9j9i,4nf6,283f,37zd

"Geothermal competitive sale results" (BLM Nevada, 1/30/13)
BLM Nevada generated $28,982 during its competitive geothermal lease
sale held in Reno on Jan. 29, selling five parcels, two in Churchill
County, two in Humboldt County and one in Pershing County, that
comprised 7,056 acres.
www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/info/newsroom/2013/january/state_office__geothermal.html


WILD HORSES AND BURROS

"Reward offered in burro death " (Riverside Press-Enterprise, 1/29/13)
"The federal government is offering a $1,000 reward for information
leading to the arrest of whoever killed and butchered a wild burro on
public land in northeast San Bernardino County. A biologist found the
carcass earlier this month in the Ivanpah Valley, near the site of a
solar energy project under construction next to Interstate 15 a few
miles from Primm, Nevada. The animal appeared to have been cut up at
the site for its meat..."
www.pe.com/local-news/topics/topics-environment-headlines/20130129-mojave-desert-reward-offered-in-burro-death.ece

"Wild donkeys trained to compete at Stock Show" (Fort Worth, Texas
Star-Telegram, 1/26/13)
"Donkeys, or 'burros' in Spanish, have a reputation for being
stubborn. But at least one horseman at the Stock Show feels that the
rugged beasts of burden are really just more thoughtful than other
equines. 'They don't think like horses,' said Ken Schwab, one of six
competitors in Saturday's Wild Burro Bonanza, a first-time event that
is similar to the Mustang Magic competitions that have been part of
the Stock Show in recent years. 'They're not flighty. They think
things through.' Both events, which are presented by the Mustang
Heritage Foundation based in Georgetown, use wild stock gathered by
the Bureau of Land Management."
www.star-telegram.com/2013/01/26/4577783/wild-donkeys-trained-to-compete.html

"BLM strengthens wild horse and burro policies to ensure humane
treatment of animals, more transparency" (BLM national office, 2/1/13)
"These changes are part of our ongoing commitment to ensure the humane
treatment of animals that are gathered from our public rangelands,"
Acting BLM Director Mike Pool said. "In addition, increasing public
transparency is a cornerstone of this Administration's approach to our
work. These new policies represent significant and substantial
improvements, and we anticipate additional steps in the future to
continue to strengthen this program." The new policies, informed by
input from stakeholders, will guide wild-horse-and-burro gathers and
related activities. These gathers are conducted on federally managed
Western rangelands where herd management areas are overpopulated.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,a0z7,iil7,283f,37zd

"Burro versus vehicle" (Havasu News, 1/29/13)
"A driver and his passenger were shaken up but unharmed early Monday
after striking and killing a wild burro on State Route 95 about one
mile north of the London Bridge Road intersection north of Lake Havasu
City." A fire chief at the scene said, "The driver was pretty
distraught that the burro had died. The vehicle was disabled and the
driver worried about oncoming traffic." Fencing and burro removals are
planned, to try to reduce vehicle-burro collisions in the area.
www.havasunews.com/news/burro-versus-vehicle/article_f7c54a88-69d1-11e2-9b6c-0019bb2963f4.html


WILDFIRES AND PREVENTION

"Where there's smoke … there's fast-acting firefighters" (Inyo
Register, 1/28/13)
"In a show of force, nearly 100 local, state and federal firefighters
responded to a blaze southeast of Bishop this weekend to ensure high
winds didn't drive the fire into local communities ... In addition to
Calfire, the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and local
volunteer fire departments from Olancha to Mammoth Lakes responded to
ensure the blaze did not spread."
www.inyoregister.com/node/4363


HEADLINES and HIGHLIGHTS

"Acting on tip, federal officials recover stolen petroglyph panels"
(Los Angeles Times, 1/31/13)
"Federal investigators acting on a tip have recovered five petroglyph
panels that thieves cut from an eastern Sierra site sacred to Native
Americans ... The location of the petroglyphs, stolen last fall, was
disclosed in an anonymous letter to authorities. By failing to sign
the letter, its author walked away from a $9,000 reward — a sign that
the tip may have come from the thieves themselves. Experts had said
the petroglyphs would fetch little money from collectors and would be
difficult to fence because of widespread publicity about the theft."
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0201-petroglyphs-20130201,0,1406110.story

"BLM seeks nominations to Central California Resource Advisory
Council" (BLM, 1/29/13)
The Bureau of Land Management in is seeking public nominations for six
open positions on its Central California District Resource Advisory
Council, which advises the BLM on public land issues. The BLM will
consider the nominations until March 1. The Central California RAC
advises BLM officials for the Hollister, Mother Lode, Bakersfield and
Bishop field offices.
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2013/january/cencalracnominations.html

"Petition started to stop expansion of Marine base into OHV area"
(Victorville Daily Press, 1/18/13)
"A petition has been started to keep the expansion of the Twentynine
Palms Marine Base away from the popular off-highway vehicle area known
as Johnson Valley. The petition, which was created on Tuesday, has
until Feb. 14 to collect 25,000 signatures in order to receive a
response from the Obama Administration."
www.vvdailypress.com/news/stop-38620-johnson-valley.html

RELATED: "Off-roaders petition White House as Hammer time nears"
(Lucerne Valley Leader, 1/23/13)
"The website that promotes the annual King of the Hammers race is
spearheading the latest effort to halt the U.S. Marine Corps'
expansion into the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area ...
promoting an online petition to the White House concerning the planned
expansion of the Twentynine Palms Marine Base into Johnson Valley. The
petition needs 25,000 signatures by Feb. 14."
www.lucernevalleyleader.com/node/848

JOBS
"Current job openings - BLM California" (USAJOBS website)
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,8qwy,1ci0,283f,37zd


NATIONAL, OTHER STATE AND DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR ITEMS

"BLM and Forest Service announce 2013 grazing fee" (BLM, 1/31/13)
The Federal grazing fee for 2013 will be $1.35 per animal unit month
(AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management
and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the U.S. Forest
Service. The 2013 fee is the same as last year's. An AUM or HM --
treated as equivalent measures for fee purposes -- is the occupancy
and use of public lands by one cow and her calf, one horse, or five
sheep or goats for a month. The newly calculated grazing fee,
determined by a congressional formula and effective on March 1,
applies to nearly 18,000 grazing permits and leases administered by
the BLM and more than 8,000 permits administered by the Forest
Service.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,keez,ifhe,283f,37zd

"Parker Race temporary public land closure scheduled" (BLM Arizona, 1/25/13)
The 42nd annual running of the Parker 425 Desert Race will be this
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1-2. Designated spectator areas will allow
visitors enjoy the race. The race course and closure area description,
restriction, and map of the designated race course are available at
the BLM Lake Havasu Field Office.
www.blm.gov/az/st/en/info/newsroom/2013/january/parker-closure.html

"AZ man sentenced for stealing saguaros" (KPHO TV, Phoenix, AZ, 1/30/13)
"A Scottsdale man has been sentenced to pay restitution of $32,000 and
spend eight months of weekends in jail for stealing cacti from federal
land in 2010 ... Arizona Saguaros are protected by state and federal
law ... The investigation in this case was conducted by the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and Fish and
Wildlife Service."
www.kpho.com/story/20860369/az-man-sentenced-for-stealing-saguaros

"Fairbanks scientists stunned to find intact 40,000-year-old steppe
bison" (Alaska Dispatch, 1/25/13)
"As she scraped cold dirt from the remains of an extinct bison, Pam
Groves wrinkled her nose at a rotten-egg smell wafting from gristle
that still clung to the animal's bones ... In the type of discovery
they have dreamed about for years, Groves and Dan Mann, both
researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in summer 2012
found in the thawing bank of a northern river almost the entire
skeleton of a steppe bison that died during the last ice age. In
adventurous work sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management, Mann and
Groves have been boating down lonely northern rivers for 15 years
looking for scattered bones of ice age mammals..."
www.alaskadispatch.com/article/fairbanks-scientists-stunned-find-intact-40000-year-old-steppe-bison

"Helium rises to highest since 1965 in fallout from shale boom"
(Bloomberg, 1/30/13)
"Helium prices in the U.S., the world's biggest producer, are trading
at the highest level since at least 1995 as the shale boom exacerbates
a shortage of the gas used in everything from semiconductors to
medical equipment ... U.S. output is shrinking even as supplies of
natural gas, the source of most helium, rise an average of about 4
percent a year. That's because shale deposits, which made up almost a
third of U.S. output last year, yield almost none ... The market is
also being affected by uncertainty over the future of the Bureau of
Land Management's helium reserve near Amarillo, Texas, which supplies
about 30 percent of the world's annual supply." Helium plants are
planned in Qatar, Wyoming and Siberia.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-31/helium-rises-to-highest-since-1995-in-fallout-from-shale-boom.html


SELECTED UPCOMING EVENTS

Feb. 2 - Volunteer work day - Alabama Hills
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2013/january/alabamahills.html

Feb. 23 - Dog Hike - near Ocotillo
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/doghikes.html

Information on events at the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains
National Monument can be found at:
www.desertmountains.org/


WILDLIFE TRIVIA answer and related websites
(a.) kill mice.

SOURCE: "Ringtail - Bassariscus astutus" (BLM California wildlife database)
www.blm.gov/ca/forms/wildlife/details.php?metode=serial_number&search=2887

More wildlife news from your public lands (and elsewhere):

"California Desert Bighorn Sheep Tag Sells for $45,000" (California
Dept. of Fish and Game, 1/30/13)
A California Desert Bighorn Sheep tag sold for $45,000 at the 41st
Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nevada. The tag was sold
through the Safari Club International Foundation (SCI Foundation).
Each year the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)
authorizes the sale of a limited number of big game permits through
various conservation organizations to support wildlife programs in the
state. All proceeds from the sale will be used to fund conservation
efforts in California. The tag was sold to Jim Craig of Indiana to
hunt Zone 2, the Kelso Peak and Old Dad Mountains in San Bernardino
County.
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,6aje,62vr,283f,37zd

"Caves shut as agencies fight bat fungus" (KRQE, 1/31/13)
White nose syndrome "is a fungal disease spreading among hibernating
bats. 'The bats get that fungus on their muzzle and wings and
interfemoral membranes and it causes them to wake up in the middle of
the winter,' explained Jim Goodbar, Bureau of Land Management Carlsbad
Field Office senior cave and karst resource specialist. Goodbar said
the fungus causes the bats to fly around and search for food in the
winter, which in turn causes them to burn the stored fat they have to
survive. Part of protecting the bats means extending cave closures. Up
to 28 caves on BLM land in the state -- seven of them in Eddy County
and three at Carlsbad Caverns. It's a decision many cavers may not be
happy with."
http://www.elabs10.com/ct.html?ufl=1&rtr=on&s=x8pbwi,1coau,3xn3,bcy9,1678,283f,37zd

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