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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What are the odds
You gotta be $hitting me....
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.
eco-nazis
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".
BTTT
No more milkvetch for you!
How fitting.
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.
I think we just found part of the “climate change”.
Insane humans created a climate of stupidity.
And the shrub is now extinct due to the fire...
It’s interesting that all these Environmental lunatics preach evolution but con tactics, they clearly don’t believe it.
Question to my fellow CA voters: Had enough yet? Answer: Almost certainly
No
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.
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.
Hopefully the fire extincted it real good.
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 …….
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.”
And yet, it’s all worth it if it saves one milkvetch.
(Eco-commie filter off).
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