EARLY INPUT SOUGHT ON SOUTHWESTERN WILLOW FLYCATCHER CRITICAL HABITAT PROPOSAL

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is seeking public participation in identifying issues and determining the appropriate scope of environmental analysis, including alternatives, in the anticipated designation of critical habitat for the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher, a neotropical, migratory bird. By developing a critical habitat proposal, the Service intends to protect vital flycatcher breeding habitat from federal activities.

Staff will be visiting eight communities in the seven-state U.S. range of the flycatcher to gather information and identify sources of other information that can contribute to its eventual critical habitat proposal