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Critical habitat designated for two Bay Area tidal plants

Suisun thistle and soft bird’s-beak grow largely in Suisun Marsh

News Release

April 12 , 2007

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Al Donner, 916-414-6566 or al_donner@fws.gov

Summary

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published today a final rule designating 2,621 acres in Solano, Contra Costa and Napa counties, California, as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the Suisun thistle and the soft bird's-beak, two endangered plants found only in the tidal wetlands of Suisun and San Pablo bays.

Read the full Suisun plant critical habitat news release (PDF)

Critical habitat map (PDF)

Questions & answers (PDF)

Suisun thistle species account

Soft bird's-beak species account

Soft bird's-beak page for kids

soft birds-beak, Valary Bloom, FWS

Soft Bird's-Beak
by Brenda Grewell

Federal Register
72:18517
TEXT | PDF (1361 kb)
April 12, 2007

           

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