What does CH stand for?

Critical Habitat

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced its proposal to designate approximately 200,541 square miles as critical habitat for the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Alaska Energy & Environmental Policy Update - October 29, 2009

Federal law prohibits agencies from taking actions that may adversely affect critical habitat and interfere with polar bear recovery.

Feds designate polar bear habitat in Alaska

The United States on Thursday announced plans to designate more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears, a key step towards increasing protection for the threatened species.

US to give threatened polar bears vast 'critical habitat'

Fish & Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed reducing the critical habitat for the threatened marbled murrelet by more than 254,000 acres in Oregon, Washington and Northern California, including nearly 63,000 acres in Lane and Douglas counties.

Federal proposal would trim murrelet land

This story contains a sidelong misrepresentation of the Critical Habitat provisions of the ESA.

From the editor

Critical Habitat Critical habitat, as defined in the ESA, is a regulatory term for a specific area that contains physical and biological factors that are essential for the conservation of a listed species.

Rulemaking actions

Fish and Wildlife Service's final designation last week of 11,695 acres in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties as critical habitat for the toad is dramatically lower than an earlier 182,360-acre plan struck down by the courts.

DOWN TO 11,695 ACRES TOADS' HABITAT SHARPLY REDUCE

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to draw the required critical habitat boundaries.

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