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How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades fire safety project to save an endangered shrub
NY Post ^ | Jan. 14, 2025, | Alex Oliveira

Posted on 01/14/2025 7:39:32 AM PST by Mr. Mojo

California’s eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub.

It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in California that is coming under scrutiny following the devastating outbreak of the Palisades Fire — the most devastating blaze in Los Angeles history, which has consumed the very same area.

In 2019, the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) began replacing nearly 100-year-old power line poles cutting through Topanga State Park, when the project was halted within days by conservationists outraged that federally endangered Braunton’s milkvetch plants had been trampled during the process.

The goal of the project was to improve fire safety for the Pacific Palisades area by replacing the wooden poles with steel, widening fire-access lanes in the area, and installing wind- and fire-resistant power lines — all after the area was identified as having an “elevated fire risk,” according to the LA Times.

“This project will help ensure power reliability and safety, while helping reduce wildfire threats,” the LADWP said at the time. “These wooden poles were installed between 1933 and 1955 and are now past their useful service life.”

But, after an amateur botanist hiking through the park during the work saw the harm done to some of the park’s Braunton’s milkvetch — a flowering shrub with only a few thousand specimens remaining in the wild — and complained, the project was completely halted, Courthouse News Service reported.

Instead of fire-hardening the park, the city — which the state said had undertaken the work without proper permitting — ended up paying $2 million in fines and was ordered by the California Coastal Commission to reverse the whole project and replant the rare herb.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brauntonsmilkvetch; california; caltastrophe; criminalnegligence; derelictionofduty; environmentalwhackos; envirowackos; fire; milkvetch; misconduct; negligence; nlz; palisades; prevention; shrub; wildfire
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1 posted on 01/14/2025 7:39:32 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

We both posted this within a minute of each other
What are the odds


2 posted on 01/14/2025 7:47:30 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Mr. Mojo

You gotta be $hitting me....


3 posted on 01/14/2025 7:48:22 AM PST by wetgundog
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So, is the endangered shrub safe?

It’s just like in Michigan, where the office of Michigan AG Dana “Nazi” Nessel forced a dam owner to keep the water levels too high, to “save the mussels”.

When the dam blew, and drained out, all the mussels died.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 7:50:19 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Mr. Mojo

eco-nazis


5 posted on 01/14/2025 7:50:32 AM PST by joshua c
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To: Mr. Mojo
Getting rid of the entire program that protects frogs, owls, snail darters etc...

AND stop introducing wolves and other predators into "ancient" hang outs. Critters move around...if they didn't, we wouldn't find species thousands of miles apart....even crossing oceans.

The program should be diminished to "nothing".

6 posted on 01/14/2025 7:51:10 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Mr. Mojo

BTTT


7 posted on 01/14/2025 7:52:40 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Mr. Mojo

No more milkvetch for you!


8 posted on 01/14/2025 7:52:45 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (You might be in the wrong place if you miss the sarcasm.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Another common name for milkvetch (genus Astragalus) is locoweed.

How fitting.

9 posted on 01/14/2025 7:53:05 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I forget where I read it, but it seems like X number of species go extinct every year on their own. It’s part of the cycle of nature.

How arrogant we are that we think we can (and should) save every species everywhere. Just because.


10 posted on 01/14/2025 7:53:19 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: wetgundog

I think we just found part of the “climate change”.

Insane humans created a climate of stupidity.


11 posted on 01/14/2025 7:53:48 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

And the shrub is now extinct due to the fire...


12 posted on 01/14/2025 7:55:55 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Leaning Right

It’s interesting that all these Environmental lunatics preach evolution but con tactics, they clearly don’t believe it.


13 posted on 01/14/2025 7:56:48 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Question to my fellow CA voters: Had enough yet? Answer: Almost certainly
No


14 posted on 01/14/2025 7:57:37 AM PST by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

All the shoutouts to the firefighters during last night’s Rams game was vomit-inducing, totally ignoring what caused the fires, and making the Rats look like the good guys.


15 posted on 01/14/2025 7:58:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Wow, this is in Dave Barry “You can’t make this stuff up” land.

“Braunton’s milkvetch — a flowering shrub with only a few thousand specimens remaining in the wild”

And now there are none.

Palisaders should visit the “amateur botanist” to discuss Braunton’s milkvetch.


16 posted on 01/14/2025 7:58:44 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: kiryandil

Hopefully the fire extincted it real good.


17 posted on 01/14/2025 7:58:53 AM PST by _longranger81
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To: wetgundog

You gotta be $hitting me....

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Oh come on .., endangered mice could also be impacted

:)

There’s an endangered shrub living at the bottom of the sea…(which is rising from climate change)…..
There’s an endangered mouse living in the endangered shrubs at the bottom of the sea (which is rising from climate change)…..

…there’s an endangered fly living on the endangered mouse living in the endangered shrubs at the bottom of the sea (which is rising from climate change)…..

There’s a …….


18 posted on 01/14/2025 8:01:03 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Hey, CA! Just plant some of THIS weed and you’ll be all set. Exact same ‘family’ of weed as your Braunton’s Milkvetch. I’ll dig you some out of my pasture next Spring. ;)

Vicia sativa (Common Vetch)

“Vicia sativa, known as the common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae. It is now naturalised throughout the world occurring on every continent, except Antarctica and the Arctic.”


19 posted on 01/14/2025 8:01:04 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

And yet, it’s all worth it if it saves one milkvetch.

(Eco-commie filter off).


20 posted on 01/14/2025 8:03:58 AM PST by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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