Officials Seek to Keep Road Used by Fish Open
Supervisors promised to find ways to prevent permanent closing of Lompoc-Casmalia Road, the first in the nation to be declared a habitat for an endangered species of fish.
The road, which stretches from the main entrance of Vandenberg Air Force Base to the community of Casmalia, repeatedly floods where it crosses San Antonio Creek.
It was declared a habitat for the unarmored three-spine stickleback fish after 1995 floodwaters wiped out a bridge.
The Army Corps of Engineers said the least damaging way to protect the fish was to close the road. Gates were installed in 1998.
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