Pika may be listed as at-risk species
By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee
The American pika, a tiny rabbit-like resident of the Sierra Nevada, will get another shot at the state Endangered Species Act.
On Thursday, the state Fish and Game Commission ordered a review of the pika’s status in response to a San Francisco Superior Court ruling that found the Department of Fish and Game failed to consider new information in a review completed last fall.
This came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, which first petitioned the state to protect the pika in 2007.
Read the whole story. The wack jobs blame the supposed population reduction on climate change (code for global warming, which doesn’t sell anymore).