Notice of Availability of a Draft Recovery Plan for the Vernal Pools of Southern California for Review and Comment

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces the availability for public review of a draft recovery plan for Vernal Pools of Southern California. This plan addresses the endangered Eryngium aristulatum var. parishii (San Diego button celery), Orcuttia californica (California Orcutt grass), Pogogyne abramsii (San Diego mesa mint), Pogogyne nudiuscula (Otay mesa mint), San Diego fairy shrimp (Branchinecta sandiegonensis) and Riverside fairy shrimp (Streptocephalus wootonii), and the proposed threatened Navarretia fossalis (spreading navarretia). These five plant species and two shrimp species collectively occur on scattered and limited habitat on Federal and private lands remaining on the coastal terraces of Goleta and Isla Vista in Santa Barbara County, California to the Simi Hills of eastern Ventura County and the Santa Clarita region of Los Angeles County, east through Orange and western Riverside Counties, and the more extensive vernal pool complexes of San Diego County. The Service solicits review and comment from the public on this draft plan.