With the park closed due to the coronavirus, rare snowy plovers began to nest there. Park rangers are accused of destroying the nests.
More than 390 people, many of them archaeologists and Native American leaders, have signed a petition demanding that the Navy suspend its plans to relocate artifacts from San Nicolas Island to a former icehouse at the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, Calif.
The rangers were careful to avoid disturbing nests with “a female appearing eggy in the area,” according to Ronnie Glick, senior environmental scientist at the state Oceano Dunes District.But environmentalists complained that State Parks did not have required federal permits to interfere with the nesting activities of endangered species including the plovers and California least terns.A western snowy plover.
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