Conservationists criticize California's costly efforts to help endangered steelhead
Monday, April 26, 2010 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Conservation, Species, conservation, steelhead
Say what?
In hopes of luring the endangered steelhead trout into the Santa Monica Mountains, California's transportation agency is planning to spend $935,000 to pave over part of a popular beach with cement and boulders to build a freeway of sorts for fish.
The problem, even some conservationists say, is that there is little evidence construction efforts since the 1980s have done anything except absorb taxpayer dollars.
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