The article brings up the National Defense Authorization Act. Mainly in Southern California, there are 13 different species in each landscape. California shows that they want to take part in helping out the environment to lessen the endangerments of animals in the public lands that are provided. With more than 1.3 billion acres of land, the state plans on impacting the communities with safety. It is said that it will be protecting the 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters that scientists say are needed to stem the climate and extinction crises.

I consider this article important because it talks about specific places to take more consideration in environmental science. Trump, as we know,  doesn’t care as much for public land so it is not always brought up. The public land is for the whole environment and California shows help by bringing these specific places up into media.