Distribution of River Otters in California
Author : Joseph Grinnell
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Mammals
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Grinnell
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Mammals
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Grinnell
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1914
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Grinnell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1914
Category :
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Author : Donald Blair Siniff
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Mammal populations
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Author : Richard A. Boolootian
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Marine mammal populations
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Author : Michael L. Bonnell
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Mammal populations
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Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
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Author : Chris Maser
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Mammals
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Author : Michael David Samuel
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Glenn R. VanBlaricom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642728456
The impetus for this volume comes from two sources. The first is scientific: by virtue of a preference for certain large benthic invertebrates as food, sea otters have interesting and significant effects on the structure and dynamics of nearshore communities in the North Pacific. The second is political: be cause of the precarious status of the sea otter population in coastal California, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced, in June 1984, a proposal to establish a new population of sea otters at San Nicolas Island, off southern California. The proposal is based on the premise that risks of catastrophic losses of sea otters, due to large oil spills, are greatly reduced by distributing the population among two geographically separate locations. The federal laws of the U.S. require that USFWS publish an Environmental Impact Statement (ElS) regarding the proposed translocation of sea otters to San Nicolas Island. The EIS is intended to be an assessment of likely bio logical, social, and economic effects of the proposal. In final form, the EIS has an important role in the decision of federal management authority (in this case, the Secretary of the Interior of the U.S.) to accept or reject the proposal.