Critical Habitat Designated for Five Carbonate Plants From the San Bernardino Mountains

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published today a final rule designating critical habitat for five federally listed plants on approximately 13,180 acres of land in the San Bernardino Mountains. The designation will take effect on January 23, 2003.

The five plants are the federally endangered 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