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DOFAW Critical Habitat Explained

This site was developed by the Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) to provide information on the designation of critical habitat in Hawaii by the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). Each island section in this site displays a map of the USFWS proposed critical habitat areas, and the summary of the proposed action taken from the Federal Register. We have also included DOFAW’s response to the USFWS’s proposal as they are developed. Please feel free to email us with comments or suggestions on this site. To submit comments to the US Fish & Wildlife Service, please refer to each island section and follow the links at the end of the summary.

For the latest Critical Habitat Updates visit the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service website at: http://pacificislands.fws.gov/wesa/endspindex.html#Critical

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For a discussion of what critical habitat will mean for landowners in Hawaii please refer to the editorial A Critical Time for Hawaii and its Endangered Species by Michael G. Buck, Administrator, DLNR Division of Forestry & Wildlife.

The Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund successfully sued the US Fish & Wildlife Service and prompted the 9^th District Circuit Court to order the USFWS to designate critical habitat in Hawaii. The homepage for the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund is  found here http://www.earthjustice.org/

The US Fish & Wildlife Service endangered species web page is here http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html

For an excellent web site dedicated to Hawaii’s plants, check out this web site of University of Hawaii Professor Dr. Gerald (Gerry) Carr. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/default.htm

Halehaku, a website that is opposed to the eradication of wildlife
by cruel and inhuman methods, is found here http://www.halehaku.com/