Lois Grunwald 805.644.1766 ext. 332; mobile: 805.794.1152 Tom
Buckley 505.248.6455; mobile: 505.449.8672 Gulf
Coast/Caribbean/Puerto Rico: Tom MacKenzie 404.679.7291 The U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service is requesting public comment on the
draft post-delisting monitoring plan of the brown pelican. The
agency first proposed removing the remaining protected
populations of brown pelicans from the list of threatened and
endangered species in February 2008. If the brown pelican is
removed from protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA),
it will be monitored for a decade, from 2010 to 2020, under a
draft post-delisting monitoring plan released today. "We are
looking for public input on the draft monitoring plan so we can
ensure that the best methods will be used to track the pelican
population should the species be removed from ESA protection,"
said Ren Lohoefener, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service’s Pacific Southwest Region. The brown pelican in
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and northward along the A