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On January 14, 1992, two captive-bred California condors and two Andean condors were released into the Sespe Condor Sanctuary, overlooking the Sespe Creek, near Fillmore, California. This was done by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex , the lead office for the California Condor Recovery Program.
The Sespe Wilderness Area protects a portion of its watershed and channel. The Sespe Creek watershed is known for the 53,000-acre (210 km 2) Sespe Condor Sanctuary. Established in 1947, it is where the critically endangered species California condor (Gymnogyps californicus) has been re-introduced.
Sespe Creek (Chumash: S'eqp'e', "Kneecap" [4]) is a stream, some 61 miles (98 km) long, [5] in Ventura County, southern California, in the Western United States. [6] The creek starts at Potrero Seco in the eastern Sierra Madre Mountains, and is formed by more than thirty tributary streams of the Sierra Madre and Topatopa Mountains, before it empties into the Santa Clara River in Fillmore.
The Los Padres Condor Range and River Protection Act was first introduced to Congress as H.R. 4747 (100th U.S. Congress) by Representative Robert J. Lagomarsino in 1988.. This first version of the legislation sought only to establish the Sespe and Matilija Wilderness Areas in addition to expanding the San Rafael Wilderne
Monstrous deep sea angler fish have washed up on the shores of a park in California Bizarre jet-black ‘monster’ fish washes up on California shore Skip to main content
Many threatened and endangered species live within the forest. Among them is the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), for whom the United States Forest Service manages the Sespe Condor Sanctuary and the Sisquoc Condor Sanctuary. [7] Also present is the California mountain kingsnake, a California species of
Fewer than 80,000 Central Valley fall-run Chinook salmon returned to spawn in 2022, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. That marked a nearly 40% decline from the previous ...
California's Fish and Game Commission voted to consider listing white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in North America, as a threatened species.