Notice of Availability of a Draft Recovery Plan for the Bighorn Sheep in the Peninsular Ranges for Review and Comment

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces the availability for public review of a draft recovery plan for the bighorn sheep in the Peninsular Ranges of southern California. The Peninsular bighorn sheep represents a distinct vertebrate population that is restricted to east facing, lower elevation slopes typically below 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) of the Peninsular Ranges in the Sonoran Desert life zone. The population addressed in this recovery plan extends from the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountain ranges in Riverside County south through numerous smaller mountain ranges in Imperial and San Diego Counties to the United States and Mexico international border. The Service solicits review and comment from local, State, and Federal agencies, and the public on this draft recovery plan.