FWS designated approximately 98,366 acres in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties in California as critical habitat for the arroyo toad under the ESA.

FWS designated approximately 2,947 acres in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties in California as critical habitat for thread-leaved brodiaea under the ESA.

FWS will reintroduce whooping cranes as a nonessential experimental population into historic habitat in southwestern Louisiana to establish a nonmigratory flock.

FWS seeks public comment and information to prepare a draft National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on fish, wildlife, plants, habitats, and our natural resource heritage.

FWS announced a 12-month finding on a petition to list the Puerto Rican harlequin butterfly as endangered and to designate critical habitat under the ESA; the agency found that listing is warranted but precluded by higher priority actions.

FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list the spot-tailed earless lizard as endangered or threatened under the ESA and to designate critical habitat; the agency found that listing may be warranted and initiated a status review.

NOAA-Fisheries proposed to designate the Middle Columbia River steelhead as a nonessential experimental population under the ESA.

NOAA-Fisheries proposed to designate the Middle Columbia River steelhead as a nonessential experimental population under the ESA.

FWS-Fisheries proposed revisions to the regulations on textual descriptions of proposed and final critical habitat boundaries in the Federal Register, in response to Executive Order No. 13563 of January 18, 2011.

FWS announced withdrawal of a proposal to list the mountain plover as a threatened species under the ESA because threats to the species are not as significant as earlier believed.