… Assembly Bill 697 by Lori Wilson, a Democrat from the Fairfield area, would allow state highway officials to potentially harm three protected bird species and endangered mice as workers add new lanes to a stretch of Highway 37 to wine country. … The 21-mile highway connects Interstate 80 in Vallejo in Solano County to Highway 101 in Novato in Marin County along the north San Pablo Bay. It cuts though some of the state’s last remaining salt marshes, which are threatened by sea level rise. … Wilson’s measure would, during construction, waive certain protections under the California Endangered Species Act for the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, as well as for three protected birds: the California clapper rail, the California black rail and the white-tailed kite. 

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