Notice of Availability of a Draft Recovery Plan for the Alabama Streak-sorus Fern for Review and Comment

Résumé

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces the availability for pubic review of a draft recovery plan for the Alabama streak-sorus fern (Thelypteris pilosa var. alabamensis). The fern is only known to occur along the Sipsey Fork, a tributary of the Black Warrior River, in Winston County, Alabama. Plants take root in crevices and on rough rock surfaces of Pottsville standstone on bluffs along the river. The majority of the extant sites are on U.S. Forest Service land (Bankhead National Forest), others are on private land. The Service solicits review and comment from the public on this draft plan.