CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME COMMISSION FINDS COMMON GROUND FOR WESTERN SPADEFOOT CONSERVATION, CLEAN-ENERGY CONSTRUCTION

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 19 -- The California Department of Fish and Wildlife issued the following press release:

Out of a collaboration between conservation advocates and the solar energy industry, the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) at its Aug. 12-13 meeting adopted regulations that allow qualifying solar projects to move forward while also protecting the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) candidate species western spadefoot frog.

Last week, commissioners found that listing western spadefoot as a CESA-protected species may be warranted, giving it CESA candidacy and protections, and initiating a one-year scientific study of the species. In the months leading up to the candidacy decision, the Center for Biological D...