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Peer Review

Peer Review - Ensuring Credibility of Information

To improve the quality and objectivity of the scientific information we use to make decisions, the Fish and Wildlife Service have implement a structured “peer review� process for influential scientific information and highly influential scientific assessments, per OMB's bulletin on peer review. These is an additional policy covering peer review of Endangered Species Act activities. See the Service's National Peer Review website for additional information.

 

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.

 

Date
Title of Document for Peer Review
2/1/2013 Proposed Listing of the North American Wolverine on Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. View the Wolverine webpage.
*Peer Review open until May 4, 2013
1/11/2013 Proposed Rule to list the Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) as Endangered and Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat
9/10/2012 Final Rule Removal of the Gray Wolf in Wyoming from the Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Status and Removal of the Experimental Population Status
8/10/2012 Final Rule Designation of Critical Habitat for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa skyrocket), Penstemon debilis (Parachute beardtongue), and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque phacelia)
10/1/2011 Proposed Removal of the Gray Wolf in Wyoming from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
8/1/2011 Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa skyrocket), Penstemon debilis (Parachute beardtongue) and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque phacelia)
5/1/211 Proposed Rule Revising the Special Rule for the Utah Prairie Dog

 

View 2010 and older peer review documents.
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