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Homebuilders petition California to drop protections for threatened hawk
A homebuilders association is petitioning California to remove protections for the Swainson's hawk under the state's Endangered Species Act. The hawk nests in Solano County and the Central Valley before migrating, and this would be the first delisting in 17 years.
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