Rare Snail Unique to Kern County, California Threatened by Golden Queen Mine
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–January 31, 2014. The Center for Biological Diversity filed an emergency petitionwith the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the Mohave shoulderband snail, a tiny resident of Kern County. The snail is found on three mountain peaks southeast of Bakersfield and nowhere else on Earth, and a mine now under construction, the Golden Queen open-pit…
