I decided some time ago that my good old FFXIV would turn into my main blog so if you follow me here and want to keep seeing my posts on your dash (with some FFXIV stuff and posts about my OCs sometimes), come join me on @sundered-souls :3
I decided some time ago that my good old FFXIV would turn into my main blog so if you follow me here and want to keep seeing my posts on your dash (with some FFXIV stuff and posts about my OCs sometimes), come join me on @sundered-souls :3
If you've been following my blog for a while now, you may recall me posting about The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit and the devastating effect the 2020 Pearl Hill wildfire (along with past and no doubt future ones) had on this rare species. Now, there's an update:
Fires, made worse by climate change, along with shrinking and degraded habitat, disease, weeds—there always seems to be a new obstacle in the way of the rabbit’s recovery. “We often joke it’s like a bad movie,” says Gallie.
Still, even bad movies can have a happy ending. In summer 2021 the population of wild pygmy rabbits in Washington’s sagebrush sea was up to about 100, according to Gallie. That may not sound like many. But it’s a lot more than 16.
Those 100 rabbits represent two decades of intensive effort by biologists, research institutions, The Nature Conservancy, federal and state agencies, volunteers, landowners and private citizens. And ultimately, the species’ recovery is more about potential for growth than current numbers, says Hanson. That means preserving and restoring high-quality, protected habitat where newly released pygmy rabbits and their offspring can live and reproduce happily ever after, even as climate change exacerbates fires and drought.
After the 2015 fire, a new mobile enclosure and release area were placed on land owned by Peter Lancaster and the estate of Paul Schuster. In March 2021, Lancaster and Schuster’s estate donated a 282-acre parcel to TNC, specifically for Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit recovery. The acquisition expanded TNC’s Beezley Hills Preserve and offered new reintroduction habitat that had not been ruined by fire.
In spring 2021, Gallie was thrilled to see a population boom in this unburned portion of Beezley Hills. With new generations of wild-born pygmy rabbits breeding on their own, Gallie says the wild population is approaching a self-sustaining level. “We’re getting to the point where we can [eventually] remove ourselves from the equation,” he says. Though an indiscriminate tragedy like fire could change things at any time, Gallie is excited about this localized rabbit revival. “We now get to see the positive results of our activities for the last four years,” he says. “It was worth the wait.”
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