Drought and development are decimating the San Joaquin kit fox. But the imperiled, pint-size predator has found a surprising sanctuary: Bakersfield, the honky-tonk California oil patch famous for being the hometown of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
This fast-growing city’s irrigated golf links, school campuses, and roadside greenways are providing an unlikely urban redoubt for the cat-size foxes—one that may save the species from extinction.
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Exposing the Big Game 
Is he cute or what? 🙂 But read the attached editorial by a rancher/farmer who declares certain creatures have ‘no ecological value’ and we shouldn’t waste money on trying to save them! Another one who wants to let creatures go extinct. He says the condor has no ecological value – ever hear of scavenging carrion, sir? *facepalm* It’s sad that ignorant humans rule the world.
http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/opinion/hot-topics/x400519512/How-far-should-we-go-to-save-some-of-Californias-creatures
Dumb, dumber, dumbest–that’s us. You can add mean, meaner, meanest also. The human species should be ashamed, but we haven’t got the sense or decency for that. I just hope the foxes do well. They deserve their place on this earth too.