NMFS proposed to designate and authorize the release of nonessential experimental populations of Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon and Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon in the McCloud and Upper Sacramento Rivers upstream of Shasta Dam, California, and established a limited set of take exceptions for the experimental populations under the ESA.

FWS initiated five-year status reviews under the ESA for 67 animal and plant species, and requested the submission of scientific and commercial data that has become available since the last review of the species.

FWS reclassified Furbish’s lousewort from endangered to threatened under the ESA and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the species.

The U.S. Geological Survey announced that it, in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada and Mexico’s La Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, will undertake a two-year regional assessment of biodiversity and climate change, culminating in the first-ever assessment report addressing these two challenges together for the United States, Canada, Mexico, U.S. territories, and Freely Associated States.

CEQ requested information on Columbia River salmon and other native fish restoration, as well as other relevant information to an ongoing mediation.

FWS designated approximately 78,009 acres in Idaho as critical habitat for slickspot peppergrass under the ESA.

NMFS initiated a five-year status review under the ESA for the Taiwanese humpback dolphin, and requested submission of any new scientific and commercial data that has become available since the species was listed in 2018.

FWS proposed regulations that would codify the process by which the Service establishes drain tile setbacks in wetland easement contracts pursuant to the National Wildlife Refuge Administration Act.

FWS determined threatened species status for the Big Creek crayfish and the St. Francis River crayfish under the ESA, designated approximately 1,069 river miles in Missouri as critical habitat for the Big Creek crayfish and 1,043 river miles in Missouri as critical habitat for the St. Francis River crayfish, and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act that provides measures that are necessary and advisable to provide for the conservation of both species.

FWS determined endangered species status for the South Llano springs moss under the ESA.