Environment

Grants Given To San Diego County Habit Preservation Programs

By Ed Joyce / Reporter

Published April 12, 2010 at 1:33 PM PDT

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says San Diego County programs to protect and conserve habitat of threatened and endangered species will receive more than $12 million in grants.

The money is part of $66 million in grants from a federal program that funds the purchase of habitat for endangered and threatened species with approved recovery plans.

The City of Carlsbad Habitat Management Plan and San Diego County's Multiple Species Conservation Program are each getting $6 million.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service described the projects in a news release.

The Carlsbad project will buy 150-400 acres of habitat for the coastal California gnatcatcher. The purchases will also benefit other species including the California least tern as well as numerous plants.

The San Diego County Multiple Species Conservation Program project would result in the acquisition of 250-600 acres of land.

The acquisitions will benefit 31 listed and unlisted species, including the San Diego fairy shrimp, arroyo toad, coastal California gnatcatcher, southwestern willow flycatcher, and bald eagle.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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