After fifty years fighting off budget cuts and development, a California state park is a shining example of wildlife protectionA little over fifty miles south of San Francisco, there is a place where threatened sea otters and elephant seals (pictured) have been saved from extinction.
It is a state reserve called Año Nuevo ("New Year"), created in 1958 by California as a refuge for elephant seals.
"Like so many of California’s state parks, it narrowly averted being closed during the ongoing state budget crisis...overburdened by development plans and surrounded by farms growing row-crops heavy on pesticide -- brussels sprouts mostly," writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the New York Times.
"The protections are by no means complete," Klinkenborg writes. "But it’s hard to imagine a more vivid demonstration of the value of coastal protection and the ways in which it can be done."
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- Adopt Megan, a female northern elephant seal pup was found starving on a beach in San Luis Obispo County
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