What's New? Pesticide inventory completed for Gualala River watershed
	Gualala River photo credit: PT Nunn, 2003

Healthy ecosystems provide benefits to our environment such as clean water and rich biodiversity. The Critical Habitat Project will improve the recovery and overall health of California's rare and endangered species and their habitats while promoting a viable agricultural sector.

The Project will achieve its goals by working collaboratively with agencies and organizations to identify geographic areas where habitat for rare and threatened species and expanding farming regions overlap. In identified areas, we will inventory the use of toxic synthetic chemicals to accurately assess the risk to species and their habitat, offer landowners less toxic alternatives, and develop materials including informational handouts and data maps for the general public.

• Identify habitat areas for rare, endangered and threatened species
• Develop and map regional pesticide use inventories
• Conduct ecological risk assessments for potential risk to species
• Offer landowners less toxic alternatives
• Partner with organizations and agencies to share and disseminate materials
• Mobilize local, state, and federal action to recover vital ecosystems
• Monitor pesticide use and evaluate program effectiveness by conducting follow-up inventories and assessments in areas exceeding protective thresholds
• Make all information available to the public

• New Considerations for Evaluating Pesticide Impacts to Endangered/Threatened Species   (.pdf)
  Report to the Environmental Protection Agency, prepared by CETOS in partnership with Californians for Alternatives to Toxics (CATs).

• Pesticide inventory completed for Gualala River watershed

• Seattle federal court orders EPA to set up buffer zones in effort to protect salmon on West Coast

• Critical Habitat Project Focuses on the Effects of Chemicals to California Salmon Populations

• Smith River Flood Plain Pesticide Aquatic Ecological Exposure Assessment
  Prepared by CETOS in partnership with the Smith River Project,
  June, 2002.

• Environmentalists & Endangered Species
  In protecting endangered species from the impacts of pesticides, scaling back registration of new pesticides and reviewing the status of high-risk products to prove the absence of reproductive harms to the species is necessary. By Dr. Lappé.

• The Fabled Flower
  Concerns regarding pesticide use in the cut flower industry. By Britt Bailey

• The Rivers Brew
  US Geological Survey publishes latest study showing pollutants in many of our nation's rivers. By Britt Bailey

• NOAA Fisheries: Pacific Salmon
  Endangered Species Act status reviews and listing information for Pacific Salmon

• Navarro-by-the-Sea Center
  Conducting riparian and estuarine research on the northern California coast

• Pesticide Factsheets
  • Glyphosate (Roundup®)  (.pdf)
  • Imazapyr  (.pdf)
  • Mancozeb  (.pdf)

§ 316 UCSA 1532 (5)(A) Critical Habitat …the specific areas within the geographical area occupied by a listed endangered or threatened species on which are found those physical or biological features essential to the conservation of the species and which may require special management considerations or protection.