Comment Periods Extended for Draft Recovery Plan and Proposed Critical Habitat for Bull Trout

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today extended the public comment periods for its draft recovery plan for three distinct population segments of bull trout in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana and its proposed critical habitat designation for two of those populations.

The deadline for submitting comments on the draft recovery plan is now March 29, 2003, instead of February 27, 2003. The new deadline for submitting comments on the proposed critical habitat designation is May 12, 2003. The previous deadline was January 28, 2003. Notices of the extensions were published in today