Walker Ridge Potential Wilderness
Managing agency: Bureau of Land Management, Ukiah District.
Location: North of Highway 20, Colusa and Lake counties.
Size: Approximately 7,000 acres.
Description: The area shelters the second-largest
wintering bald eagle (a state-listed endangered species) population in California
as well as habitat for Swainson’s hawk (a state-listed threatened species),
and peregrine falcon (a state-listed endangered species). The area is seriously
threatened by road construction associated with a proposed wind energy development,
and the BLM had recently agreed to conduct a wilderness inventory for the region
as part of the environmental impact statement for the development. Now, due
to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's revocation
of the BLM's wilderness handbook, this necessary and perfectly logical analysis is
prohibited.
For additional information, please contact info@calwild.org
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Just three miles off of Interstate 80, 
