Ways to Help At-Risk Salamanders Discussed
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Santa Maria Public Airport District board met this week with representatives from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to discuss establishing a program to help endangered California tiger salamanders flourish.
Airport officials are trying to devise a plan that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service representatives will accept as mitigation measures that will allow a proposed research park and golf course to move forward. The airport project stalled two years ago after discovery of the salamanders on airport property.
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