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Peer Review of Scientific Information
Ensuring the Quality and
Credibility of Information
In order to improve the quality
and credibility of the scientific information we use to make regulatory
decisions, the Fish and Wildlife Service has implemented a formal "peer
review" process for influential scientific documents.
While we have always consulted
experts to ensure that our decisions are based on sound science, through
this peer review process we follow the guidelines for Federal agencies
spelled out in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
"Final Information
Quality Bulletin for Peer Review" (PDF, 263KB) released December 16, 2004.
Part of the peer review process
is to provide information on the Web about how each peer review is to be
conducted, as described in this checklist.
Link
to the Service's National Peer Review website.
Peer Review Agenda
We have identified the following
documents as meeting the OMB criteria of peer review for influential
scientific information. Click on a title to get more information about
that document and the peer review process we have set up for it. This
list will be updated as necessary.
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Posting
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Draft
Document Title |
| May 15, 2008 |
Proposed Removal of the Plant Maguire Daisy (Erigeron maguirei) From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants; draft Post-Delisting Monitoring |
| November 21, 2007 |
Revised Proposed Rule to Amend the Listing for the Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) to Specify Over What Portion of Its Range the Subspecies is Threatened |
| July 10, 2007 |
Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain Population (NRM) of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and Removing this Distinct Population Segment from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife |
| July 10, 2007 |
Proposed Revision of Special Regulation for the Central Idaho and Yellowstone Area Nonessential Experimental Populations of Gray Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains |
| May 31, 2007 |
Five Year Review of
the Dudley Bluffs bladderpod (Lesquerella congesta) and the Dudley
Bluffs twinpod (Physaria obcordata) |
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February 12, 2007 |
Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain Population (NRM) of Gray Wolf as
a Distinct Population Segment and Removing this Distinct Population
Segment from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. |
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February 8, 2007 |
Five Year Review of the Kanab
Ambersnail (Oxyloma kanabensis) |
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February 8, 2007 |
Five Year Review of Woundfin
(Plagopterus argentissimus) and Virgin River chub (Gila seminuda) |
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January 9, 2007 |
Greenback Cutthroat Trout (Onchorhynchus
clarki stomias) 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation |
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December 12, 2006 |
Kendall Warm Springs Dace
(Rhinichthys osculus thermalis) 5-Year Review; Summary and Evaluation |
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November 2, 2006 |
Range-wide status of Colorado River cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus
clarki pleuriticus) |
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September 22, 2006 |
Ute ladies’-tresses orchid (Spiranthes diluvialis) 12-month
status review and 5-Year Review |
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September 9, 2006 |
Pallid Sturgeon 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation |
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July 13, 2006 |
Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) 5-Year Review:
Summary and Evaluation |
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June 22, 2006 |
Proposed rule “Proposed establishment of a nonessential experimental
population status and reintroduction of black-footed ferrets in eastern
Wyoming” |
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June 1, 2006 |
Determination Regarding the Listing Status of the Preble’s Meadow
Jumping Mouse (Preble’s) (Zapus hudsonius preblei) |
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April 21, 2006 |
Recovery Plan for Astragalus holmgreniorum (Holmgren Milk-vetch)
and Astragalus ampullarioides (Shivwits Milk-vetch) |
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April 20, 2006 |
Proposed rule “Proposed
Threatened Status for the Plant Penstemon grahamii (Graham’s
beardtongue) with Critical Habitat” |
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April 19, 2006 |
Proposed Designation of Critical
Habitat for Astragalus ampullarioides (Shivwits milk vetch) and
Astragalus holmgreniorum (Holmgren milk vetch) under the Endangered
Species Act |
| March 21, 2006 |
Gunnison Sage-Grouse
Listing Determination |
| March 7, 2006 |
Proposed rule “Designating the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population
of grizzly bears as a Distinct Population Segment (DPS); Removing the
Yellowstone DPS of grizzly bears from the federal list of endangered and
threatened wildlife” |
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