Notice of Availability of the Draft Recovery Plan for Fritillaria Gentneri (Gentner's fritillary) for Review and Comment

Resumen

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability for public review of the draft recovery plan for Fritillaria gentneri (Gentner's fritillary). Gentner's fritillary is restricted to southwestern Oregon, where it is known from scattered localities in the Rogue and Illinois River drainages in Jackson and Josephine Counties. The species is highly localized within a 48- kilometer (30-mile) radius of the Jacksonville Cemetery in Jacksonville, Oregon (the Jacksonville Cemetery harbors one of the largest known Fritillaria gentneri populations and serves as a convenient center reference point for the species' range). The majority of known individuals (about 73 percent) occur within an 11-kilometer (7-mile) radius of the Jacksonville Cemetery. Fritillaria gentneri has a distribution characterized by several distinct clusters of occurrences, as well as two outlying occurrences in the northeast and southeast corners of its range. We solicit review and comment from the public on this draft recovery plan.