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Bull Trout Revised Critical Habitat

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Apr 5, 2010· FWS-R1-ES-2009-0085-0371

I have attached the comments below in a PDF file. Thank you for this opportunity to comment on Revised Designation of Critical Habitat for Bull Trout in the Coterminous United States. Defenders is a national non-profit conservation organization with more than 450,000 members and supporters nationwide, and over 30,000 in the states included in the critical habitat area, who greatly value the wildlife found in our country's rivers and streams. We are a science-based advocacy organization focused on conserving and restoring native species and the habitat upon which they depend, and have been involved in such efforts since the organization's establishment in 1947. Defenders supports the designation of critical habitat across the entire range of bull trout. We are greatly encouraged that the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has decided to increase the geographic extent of habitat protection for bull trout beyond the 2005 plan to include many more miles of rivers and streams, and many more acres of lakes that are vital to the recovery of bull trout. To survive, the bull trout requires extremely clean, cold water—a commodity in increasingly short supply. Bull trout also require well connected stream systems that allow for migration between lake and riverine habitats and smaller tributary streams. For these reason they act as an environmental 'canary,' signaling small environmental changes in the waters they inhabit. Because of range-wide declines in distribution and abundance the bull trout was listed as threatened under the ESA in 1998 throughout its U.S. range, which includes Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Washington and historically California.

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