Fish and Wildlife Service Extends Deadline on Public Review of Draft Recovery Plan For Two SF Plants

Public Meetings Planned for Presidio in April

SACRAMENTO, California - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended the deadline until May 6, 2002 for comments on its December 2001 draft recovery plan for two species of rare California native plants found only on the northern San Francisco peninsula

In addition, the Service will hold two additional public workshops in San Francisco on April 2 and April 3. Both meetings will run from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and take place in the Ventana Room of the Golden Gate Club, located on the Presidio at 135 Fisher Loop.

The plan features two federally endangered plants, San Francisco lessingia, an annual herb in the aster family, and Raven