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Article: U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE DESIGNATES CRITICAL HABITAT FOR LOUISIANA BLACK BEAR
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- March 24, 2009
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WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued the following press release:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today published a final rule to designate approximately 1,195,821 acres of land in 15 Louisiana Parishes as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the threatened Louisiana black bear.
Areas designated as critical habitat for the Louisiana black bear include bottomland and upland hardwood forests and adjacent vegetated areas having a diversity of plant species and age-classes of sufficient area, quality and configuration to meet the home range needs of reproductive female Louisiana black bears throughout the ...