The National Marine Fisheries Service
has scheduled ten workshops to take public comment on its proposals to
designate critical habitat for protected salmon and steelhead and to change
the listing status of Umpqua River cutthroat trout.
NMFS is proposing to designate certain
areas as critical habitat in the belief that special management of these
areas would have an impact on the health and restoration of endangered
species. It is proposing critical habitat for Oregon coast coho, and …