Wildfire threatens sensitive California condor population.

Federal biologists were concerned Friday that a wildfire that has already consumed 143,000 acres was marching toward a California condor nest where a turkey-sized fledgling was close to taking its first flight.

“There are limited opportunities to protect that nest, which is in a cave on a hillside,” said Kirk Gilligan, deputy project leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hopper Mountain California Condor Recovery Program. “But, if necessary, aerial water drops could cool things down.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fire-condors-20171208-story.html

Posted on December 9, 2017 07:05 AM by biohexx1