Federal Cuts End Year-Round Conservation on the Farallon Islands

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Federal Cuts End Year-Round Conservation on the Farallon Islands

For the first time since the 1800s, the Farallon Islands will no longer have a year-round human presence. Due to federal budget cuts that predate the current administration, as well as $10 million in needed repairs, biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science will now leave in September, returning only seasonally from mid-March to mid-September, according to the Chronicle.This change threatens decades of conservation efforts that helped spec…