2021 Centennial Herd Area wild burro gather
Purpose of Gather:
The Centennial Herd Area Burro Gather is necessary to address resource impacts and reduce the risk of burro-vehicle collisions and is consistent with the provisions of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. In addition, the gather is consistent with the California Desert Conservation Area Plan Decision as amended to remove wild burros due to the challenges they are imposing on the military installation Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake and the unfeasibility of maintaining a wild burro population on BLM lands when removals would be conducted in adjacent jurisdictions.
5 On April 5, 2021 the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site (TRACRS) at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms released a group of 98 juvenile desert tortoises into the wild. The tortoises were protected and raised in the TRACRS facility and were monitored as part of the MCAGCC translocation program.
In 2006, MCAGCC Twentynine Palms began the headstart program to rehabilitate the desert tortoise , a threatened species that lives in and around the base. The goal is to bolster the natural population, which has declined 50-90% in the Mojave Desert due to a wide range of threats, including ravens, coyotes, habitation degradation, disease, road mortalities and invasive plants.
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When Timothy VanderPloeg went to school in Ramona, he remembers being fascinated by news accounts of the space shuttle launches and classroom discussions about moon missions.
And when he was asked to choose between chemistry or physics at Ramona High, he selected physics and never looked back.
“I was interested in engineering in general,” said VanderPloeg, 27, who graduated from Ramona High in 2011. “I always wanted to be able to apply that to space.”
In 2016 he got his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Cal State Fresno and then worked five years as a civilian engineer at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in Ridgecrest.
WWII B-29 Superfortress offers tours, flights in Monroe
AvFlight Monroe at the Monroe Regional Airport is hosting the History Restored Tour, now through Thursday.
The tour features the B-29 Superfortress, known as Doc. Doc, one of 1,644 B-29s built in Wichita, Kansas during World War II, served in various non-combat roles. In 1951,
The plane got its name when it served as a radar calibration aircraft with the 4713th Radar Evaluation Squadron at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. That squadron was also known as the Seven Dwarfs, each named after the characters from the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, one of which is Doc.
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