Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; Review of native species that are candidates or proposed for listing as endangered or threatened; Annual notice of findings on resubmitted petitions; Annual description of progress on listing actions

Author:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

Title:

Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; Review of native species that are candidates or proposed for listing as endangered or threatened; Annual notice of findings on resubmitted petitions; Annual description of progress on listing actions

Periodical:

Federal register

Year:

2006

Volume:

71

Pages:

53756-53835

Subject:

Endangered species Endangered plants Wekiu bug

Summary:

In this Candidate Notice of Review (CNOR), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), presents an updated list of plant and animal species native to the United States that are regarded as candidates or have been proposed for addition to the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. Identification of candidate species can assist environmental planning efforts by providing advance notice of potential listings, allowing landowners and resource managers to alleviate threats and thereby possibly remove the need to list species as endangered or threatened. Listing a candidate species and providing early notice could result in more options for species management and recovery by prompting candidate conservation measures to alleviate threats to the species. The CNOR summarizes the status and threats that is evaluated by the Service in order to determine that species qualify as candidates and assigns a listing priority number to each species, or removes species from candidate status. Additional material that the Service relies on is available in the Species Assessment and Listing Priority Assignment Forms (species assessment forms, previously called candidate forms) for each candidate species. Overall, this CNOR recognizes 7 new candidates, changes the listing priority number for 24 candidates, and removes 10 species from candidate status. Combined with other decisions for individual species that were published separately from this CNOR, the new number of species that are candidates for listing is 279. The Service requested additional status information that may be available for the 279 candidate species identified in this CNOR. They will consider this information in preparing listing documents and future revisions to the notice of review, as it will help in monitoring changes in the status of candidate species and in management for conserving them. The Service also requests information on additional species that should be considered including as candidates as they prepare future updates of this notice. This document also includes the Service's findings on resubmitted petitions and describes their progress in revising the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants during the period May 2, 2005 through August 23, 2006.

URL:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2006-09-12/pdf/06-7375.pdf

Date:

September 12, 2006

Collection:

Monographs