REVISED RECOVERY PLAN ADDENDUM for the THICK-BILLED PARROT: INTRODUCTION to COMMENT/RESPONSE MATRIX the Draft Thick-Billed Parro
REVISED RECOVERY PLAN ADDENDUM FOR THE THICK-BILLED PARROT: INTRODUCTION TO COMMENT/RESPONSE MATRIX The draft Thick-billed Parrot Recovery Plan Addendum (Recovery Plan; USDI FWS 2012) was completed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Region 2 (Southwest Region) and the Arizona Game and Fish Department in June, 2012. On June 19, 2012, the FWS announced in the Federal Register the availability for comment of the draft Thick-billed Parrot Recovery Plan Addendum. The 60-day comment period closed on August 20, 2012. The USFWS received comments (via letter, email, discussion) from 23 government agencies, a Native American Tribe, conservation organizations, universities, professional biologists and ecologists, and individuals who did not identify a particular affiliation. Of these 23 received comments, 8 represented comments from 13 individuals from Mexican government agencies, universities, a conservation organization, and a restoration ecologist. The USFWS and Arizona Game and Fish Department reviewed and provide responses to these comments in the accompanying Comment/Response Matrix. The USFWS requested peer reviews from 19 government agencies and/or independent scientific reviewers with expertise in biology, conservation, and ecology of parrots or old-growth conifer habitat. Of these 19 peer reviewer requests, 13 were from Mexico. We received 6 peer review comment letters from 3 government offices, 2 universities, and 1 conservation organization in Mexico, representing 10 peer reviewers. We received 7 peer review comments from 3 conservation organizations, 1 university, and 2 unaffiliated parrot and old-growth conifer habitat experts in the U.S. The remaining 10 review comments from the U.S. and Mexico were from conservation organizations, a Mexican restoration ecologist, and individuals who did not identify an affiliation.
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