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Public Affairs Specialist
Address
PO Box 1306
Albuquerque, NM 87102
United States
Areas of expertise
Ecological Services
Arizona Ecological Services
In The News
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking comments on the draft recovery plan for the Chupadera springsnail, an endangered freshwater snail currently found in one isolated location in Socorro County, New Mexico. The recovery plan鈥檚 goal is to recover the species so that it no longer needs...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved the recovery plan for the Arizona eryngo, a flowering plant that occurs in desert wetlands of Arizona and Mexico. The recovery plan establishes downlisting and delisting criteria for the Arizona eryngo, which was listed as endangered in 2022. The...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comments on a draft recovery plan for the peppered chub, an endangered fish native to prairie rivers in the Southwest. The overall goal of the recovery plan is to support multiple self-sustaining peppered chub populations into the foreseeable...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved a 50-year Conservation Benefit Agreement (CBA) with Freeport Minerals Corporation, which will protect habitat and conserve four listed species in upper Eagle Creek, located within Greenlee and Graham counties in southeastern Arizona. The voluntary...
Lloyd鈥檚 mariposa cactus shows signs of full recovery after a rigorous five-year status review, part of the process mandated by the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service鈥檚 review recommends to the Secretary of the Interior removal of the cactus from federal protections under the...
Following a comprehensive review of the most current scientific and commercial information, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined the Edwards Aquifer diving beetle does not warrant listing as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The species status...