Western Joshua Tree Protection Act gets updated website, annual report
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife sent out their annual report on the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act. The Act lists the species as threatened and was signed into California Legislature in July of last year. The Department of Fish and WIldlife reports that their hazard management permit program - which authorizes the removal of dead trees or the trimming of living ones that neeed it - has issued 137 of those permits to date. The fees collected from impacting the Western…