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Endangered Species Bulletin

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1997

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Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Proposed Rule To List The Topeka Shiner As Endangered Oct 1997

Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Proposed Rule To List The Topeka Shiner As Endangered

Endangered Species Bulletin

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposes to list the Topeka shiner (Notropis Topeka) as an endangered species under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). The Topeka shiner is a small fish presently known from small tributary streams in the Kansas and Neosho river basins in Kansas; the Missouri, Grand, Lamine, Chariton, and Des Moines river basins in Missouri; the North Raccoon River basin in Iowa; the James and Vermillion river watersheds in South Dakota; and, the Rock River watershed in Minnesota. The Topeka shiner is …


Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Final Rule To Designate The Whooping Cranes Of The Rocky Mountains As Experimental Nonessential And To Remove Whooping Crane Critical Habitat Designations From Four Locations Jul 1997

Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Final Rule To Designate The Whooping Cranes Of The Rocky Mountains As Experimental Nonessential And To Remove Whooping Crane Critical Habitat Designations From Four Locations

Endangered Species Bulletin

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) determines that it will designate the whooping crane (Grus Americana) population of the Rocky Mountains as an experimental nonessential population and will remove whooping crane critical habitat designations from four National Wildlife Refuges; Bosque del Apache in New Mexico, Monte Vista and Alamosa in Colorado, and Grays Lake in Idaho. The private lands involved are holdings inside refuge boundaries and a 1-mile buffer around Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The Service will use this population, and captive-reared sandhill cranes and whooping cranes, in experiments to evaluate methods for introducing whooping cranes …