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'''[[Byrd Station]]''' is a former research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by the U.S. Navy during [[Operation Deep Freeze]] II in central [[Marie Byrd Land]]. The station was named in honor of American [[Antarctic]] explorer Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]].
The '''[[San Joaquin kit fox]]''' is the smallest member of the dog family in North America and one of several endangered species that lives within the borders of the [[Colony of Calsahara]]. In 1990, its population was estimated to be 7,000. This subspecies is still endangered, after nearly 50 years of being on the Endangered Species List. Today, much of the kit fox's remaining habitat is extremely fragmented, movement corridors are degraded or blocked, and only a few large areas of native grasslands remain on the San Joaquin Valley's perimeter in the [[Carrizo Plain]].


While most research stations in Antarctica are placed along the coastal regions, Byrd Station is located far inland, but not near any mountains or other geographic features that might be of value to science. [[George R. Toney|George Toney]], the scientific leader at Byrd Station in the 1957, speculated that the reason for the camp’s inland location was that it was “spang in the middle of a huge unclaimed wedge of Antarctica where the United States might well launch a claim later on, if it came to that.”




<p><small>Photographer: Mark Sabbatini</small></p>
<p><small>Photographer: [[Grand Duke Travis]]</small></p>
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The San Joaquin kit fox is the smallest member of the dog family in North America and one of several endangered species that lives within the borders of the Colony of Calsahara. In 1990, its population was estimated to be 7,000. This subspecies is still endangered, after nearly 50 years of being on the Endangered Species List. Today, much of the kit fox's remaining habitat is extremely fragmented, movement corridors are degraded or blocked, and only a few large areas of native grasslands remain on the San Joaquin Valley's perimeter in the Carrizo Plain.


Photographer: Grand Duke Travis

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