The southernmost of California's Channel Islands are home to several threatened species — and a Navy bombing range.
A U.S. Marine Corps Ah-1Z SuperCobra flies over the western shore of San Clemente Island in 2019. The western marine terraces of the island are a major habitat for the San Clemente Island Bell's Sparrow.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced one bird and four plant species — unique to the island, would be de-listed from protected status under the Endangered Species Act — a milestone the service is touting as the start of a year-long celebration of the law's 50th anniversary.The San Clemente Island Bell's Sparrow, a small brown bird with a fluffy white breast, is being removed from protected status.
"On this island alone there are 17 plant species that are found nowhere else in the world," says Brian Munson, the botany program manager at Naval Base Coronado."When a seed or something from the mainland comes out here, it encounters new conditions. And it'll evolve into something new, and that's what's happened numbers of times on this island.
The Endangered Species Act — signed into law in 1973 — established regulations the Navy had to follow to manage the island's natural resources. Several island plant and animal species were listed as endangered in the 1970s, forcing the Navy to not only mitigate its impact on those surviving species but work to recover them as well.
Melissa Booker, a Navy wildlife biologist overseeing recovery on the island, says the impact of military activity on the island can and has been mitigated — even in the areas receiving fire from warships.
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