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<div><b>From:</b> "Milan, Carlos - FS" <<a href="mailto:carlosjmilan@fs.fed.us">carlosjmilan@fs.fed.us</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> June 22, 2016 at 1:55:32 PM AST<br>
<b>To:</b> "Lange, William -FS" <<a href="mailto:wlange@fs.fed.us">wlange@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Barbour, Jamie -FS" <<a href="mailto:jbarbour01@fs.fed.us">jbarbour01@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Brissette, John -FS" <<a href="mailto:jbrissette@fs.fed.us">jbrissette@fs.fed.us</a>>,
"Engert, Jan -FS" <<a href="mailto:jengert@fs.fed.us">jengert@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Gonzalez, Grizelle -FS" <<a href="mailto:ggonzalez@fs.fed.us">ggonzalez@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Gross, Terry -FS" <<a href="mailto:tgross@fs.fed.us">tgross@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Hardy, Colin
-FS" <<a href="mailto:chardy01@fs.fed.us">chardy01@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Hayes, Jane L -FS" <<a href="mailto:jlhayes@fs.fed.us">jlhayes@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Hayes, Jennifer -FS" <<a href="mailto:jenniferhayes@fs.fed.us">jenniferhayes@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Klepzig, Kier
-FS" <<a href="mailto:kklepzig@fs.fed.us">kklepzig@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Miner, Cynthia L -FS" <<a href="mailto:clminer@fs.fed.us">clminer@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Schmidt, Thomas -FS" <<a href="mailto:tschmidt@fs.fed.us">tschmidt@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Schwalbach, Monica -FS"
<<a href="mailto:mschwalbach@fs.fed.us">mschwalbach@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Stine, Peter A -FS" <<a href="mailto:pstine@fs.fed.us">pstine@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Tran, Hao -FS" <<a href="mailto:htran@fs.fed.us">htran@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Wegner, Theodore H -FS" <<a href="mailto:twegner@fs.fed.us">twegner@fs.fed.us</a>>,
"Buford, Marilyn -FS" <<a href="mailto:mbuford@fs.fed.us">mbuford@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Cairns, Cassandra F -FS" <<a href="mailto:cfcairns@fs.fed.us">cfcairns@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Chase, Julie E -FS" <<a href="mailto:jechase@fs.fed.us">jechase@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Farley,
Christopher J -FS" <<a href="mailto:cfarley@fs.fed.us">cfarley@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Heath, Linda - FS" <<a href="mailto:lheath@fs.fed.us">lheath@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Jefferson, Cheryl -FS" <<a href="mailto:cjefferson@fs.fed.us">cjefferson@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Langner,
Linda -FS" <<a href="mailto:llangner@fs.fed.us">llangner@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Larry, Elizabeth B -FS" <<a href="mailto:eblarry@fs.fed.us">eblarry@fs.fed.us</a>>, "McDonald, Barbara -FS" <<a href="mailto:bmcdonald@fs.fed.us">bmcdonald@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Parrotta,
John -FS" <<a href="mailto:jparrotta@fs.fed.us">jparrotta@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Reddan, Joe -FS" <<a href="mailto:jreddan@fs.fed.us">jreddan@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Reinhardt, Elizabeth -FS" <<a href="mailto:ereinhardt@fs.fed.us">ereinhardt@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Smith, Katherine
L -FS" <<a href="mailto:klsmith@fs.fed.us">klsmith@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Tomosy, Monica S -FS" <<a href="mailto:mstomosy@fs.fed.us">mstomosy@fs.fed.us</a>>, "Van Horne, Beatrice -FS" <<a href="mailto:bvhorne@fs.fed.us">bvhorne@fs.fed.us</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> FS-pdl wo r&d kmc all <<a href="mailto:pdl_wo_r&d_kmc_all@ms.fs.fed.us">pdl_wo_r&d_kmc_all@ms.fs.fed.us</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>FW: From Greenwire -- ENDANGERED SPECIES: Feds list Puerto Rican warbler as threatened</b><br>
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<b>To:</b> Milan, Carlos - FS <<a href="mailto:carlosjmilan@fs.fed.us">carlosjmilan@fs.fed.us</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> From Greenwire -- ENDANGERED SPECIES: Feds list Puerto Rican warbler as threatened<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Fish and Wildlife Service is adding a tiny Puerto Rican bird at risk from clearcut coffee plantations to the threatened species list, the agency announced today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Coffee plantations that are carved out of the island's mountainous forests instead of planted in their shade are one of the main threats to the elfin-woods warbler, the agency said. Other threats
include residential development, ranching, fires, hurricanes and climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The threatened listing allowed the agency to issue a special rule allowing certain types of agriculture and forestry work that could temporarily harm the 5-inch, black and white bird, which was first
discovered in the dwarf trees of El Yunque National Forest in the 1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">These exempted practices include planting native shade and coffee trees, using fertilizers within shade-grown coffee plantations and other sustainable agricultural approaches that will be advantageous
for the species in the long term.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">FWS also proposed limiting federal development of 27,125 acres of forest in three units for the warbler. Only 15 percent of that critical habitat is on private lands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Actions that benefit this bird and its habitat, such as shade-grown coffee plantations, will have additional benefits to other native wildlife including other endangered species in the area," said
Edwin Muñiz, the agency's Caribbean ecological services field office supervisor. "We greatly appreciate all the help from landowners and governmental land managers working cooperatively towards that goal."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The warbler will be formally added to the threatened species list next month, the agency said in the
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/06/22/2016-14540/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-threatened-species-status-for-the-elfin-woods-warbler"><b><span style="color:#990000">Federal
Register</span></b></a></span></em>. FWS will accept comments on its critical habitat proposal until Aug. 22 and plans to issue a final decision next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Since 2014, FWS has been collaborating with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources and the U.S. Forest Service to proactively conserve the warbler and restore suitable
habitat in El Yunque and the Maricao Commonwealth Forest. Under a candidate conservation agreement, the agencies agreed to use best management practices to avoid any potential threat to suitable and occupied elfin-woods warbler habitat and populations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The agencies are also working to reforest crucial areas and enhance habitat within degraded portions of their forests. FWS hopes public outreach and education programs will also encourage private
landowners living near these forests to conserve and restore warbler habitat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The listing was celebrated by the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group that petitioned FWS to protect the warbler under the Endangered Species Act in 2004. The bird had been a candidate
for listing for many years before then.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"With the help of the Endangered Species Act, the elfin-woods warbler will recover, like other Puerto Rican birds before it," said Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director at the center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The agency was forced to decide on the status of the warbler under the ESA as a result of a 2011 settlement agreement between conservationists and FWS that expedited the review of nearly 760 species.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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