Citizen Staff Writer
IN BRIEF
Environmental groups will offer their views Tuesday on a county plan to protect more local species than are on the federal endangered species list.
The Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, which represents 35 local, state and national environmental groups, will present the county’s Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan at an open house.
The plan is a final part of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, which aims to protect swaths of environmentally sensitive desert from development. The multispecies part would protect 36 species. There are about 19 county species on the endangered list.
Tuesday’s open house is 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Randolph Golf Course Clubhouse. The county asks that public comments on the plan be submitted by March 2, though another public comment period will follow later this year when the county completes an environmental impact statement on the multi-species plan.
B. POOLE
bpoole@tucsoncitizen.com
Environmental groups will offer views Tuesday on county’s habitat conservation plan