Service Releases Draft Analysis of Economic Impact of Proposed Critical Habitat for Five Carbonate Plants From the San Bernardino Mountains

Public Comment accepted until October 21, 2002

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today released a draft analysis showing the economic impacts of designating approximately 13,180 acres of land as critical habitat for five endangered plants found only in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California.

The five plants are the Cushenbury milk-vetch (Astragalus albens), Cushenbury buckwheat (Eriogonum ovalifolium var. vineum), San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod (Lesqueralla kingii ssp. bernardina), and Cushenbury oxytheca (Oxytheca parishii var. goodmaniana), and the federally threatened Parish