How will the Fish and Wildlife Service integrate the other ESA-listed species into subbasin plans?
For those plants and animals with approved recovery plans, we can provide subbasin planners with the recovery goals and objectives along with the specific measures necessary to achieve recovery. This will enable subbasin planners and various stakeholders to recognize the measures that will lead to recovery and to include them subbasin plans. By identifying the measures necessary to recover listed species, subbasin plans can begin to identify various measures that may have overlapping beneficial purposes. For example, improving stream flows may be necessary to recover a listed fish (e.g., bull trout) but these actions may also have considerable benefit for a variety of other fish and wildlife resources in a watershed. In addition, we can provide subbasin planners with critical habitat designations for those species where critical habitat has been identified. The purpose of critical habitat under the ESA is to identify specific geographic areas that are essential to the conservation of t
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- Will the Fish and Wildlife Service require subbasin plans to have specific measures for the protection and recovery of listed species, or any other species of fish or wildlife?
- How will the Fish and Wildlife Service integrate the other ESA-listed species into subbasin plans?
- How will the Fish and Wildlife Service integrate the bull trout recovery plan with subbasin plans?
