Fairy shrimp and vernal pool critical habitat. Now we talk about fairy shrimp. We're talking about sea monkeys, literally, back in the comic books, at least when I was a kid. These have survived unevolved since 300 million years ago, when the entire surface land area of the globe was one continent, Pangaea. I don't believe that we could, absent the earth of fairy shrimp species if we tried. But nonetheless, in California, 10% of the land area of California, including great swaths of private farmland, are designated fairy shrimp critical habitat. (03:33–03:44)
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