Tahoe yellow cress spared from endangered list
Tahoe yellow cress only grows in the basin. Photo/USFS
By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal
A tiny plant that grows only along the shoreline of Lake Tahoe does not need federal protection after years of successful efforts to prevent its extinction, officials announced Wednesday.
It appears the Tahoe yellow cress now has a promising future and does not need to be listed as an endangered or threatened species, officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
Fifteen years of work by a coalition of land managers, conservationists and private property owners has “truly exemplified” the most basic function of the Endangered Species Act – cooperation toward conservation of sensitive ecosystems and the plants and animals that depend upon them to survive, said Ted Koch, supervisor of U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Reno office.
Glad to hear the Tahoe yellow cress is holding its own.
Years ago there were areas fenced off to protoect it down by Kiva and a small section off of Baldwin beach.
Glad to see it’s still growing.
Grow yellow crerss, grow! OLS
All this hype about a weed yet the only known population of western pearlshell mussel in the tahoe basin and Sierra Nevadas is being decimated by a restoration project on the upper truckee river and no one cares.
How to waste big money, a perfect case study.
The fenced areas all croaked. What a joke.