Massive Bear’s beloved eagle couple Jackie and Shadow may very well be getting dozens of latest neighbors, ruffling the feathers of advocates who say it is going to disturb the endangered raptors.
On Tuesday, San Bernardino County supervisors unanimously voted to approve Moon Camp, a gated 50-home growth with a marina on the north shore of Massive Bear Lake.
The positioning is lower than a mile from Jackie and Shadow’s nest, and could be seen from the 24-hour stay cam that broadcasts the bald eagles’ each transfer to legions of devoted followers, in keeping with nonprofit Associates of Massive Bear Valley, which operates the livestream.
Nestled close to the group of Fawnskin, the roughly 62-acre challenge space represents a chief food-finding spot for the internet-famous eagles, mentioned Sandy Steers, government director for Associates of Massive Bear Valley.
“With all that noise and all those people down there, right on the lake, the eagles aren’t going to use that for foraging habitat,” she mentioned.
Not solely eagles will undergo, she mentioned. The world is house to San Bernardino flying squirrels and ash-gray Indian paintbrush, a federally protected plant discovered solely within the San Bernardino Mountains. Some worry the event would hinder evacuation within the occasion of a wildfire.
San Bernardino County officers summarily rejected the claims.
“The proposed project has been carefully evaluated through extensive environmental review to ensure that it does not negatively impact the environment and local wildlife, including the bald eagles,” in keeping with an announcement supplied by the county.
Steers has vowed to attempt to cease Moon Camp from transferring ahead, and is exploring the opportunity of making an attempt to purchase the land — with an area land belief — and preserve it.
It’s the newest chapter in a protracted story. Steer’s nonprofit fashioned 25 years in the past to battle this similar challenge, and so they have partnered with different teams to sue previously.
Massive Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow welcomed two hatchlings in March. A 24-hour webcam screens the nest 145 toes up in a Jeffrey pine overlooking Massive Bear Lake.
(Associates of Massive Bear Valley)
As people tussle over the land, the eagles proceed to do their factor.
The morning the housing challenge was permitted, Shadow’s beating wings may very well be heard earlier than he flew by a tree dubbed Lookout Snag. Jackie, whom he’s nested with for the previous seven years, adopted shut behind. She landed to the correct of him on a department.
“They were so beautiful as they sat together, facing one another and singing out what seemed to be just pure happiness and joy in this special morning spot!” Associates of Massive Bear Valley wrote in a Fb put up.
