NMFS initiated a five-year status review under the ESA for for the Arabian Sea, Cape Verde Islands/Northwest Africa, Central America, Mexico, and Western North Pacific distinct population segments of the humpback whale, and requested submission of any new scientific and commercial data that has become available since the last review of the species.

FWS initiated a five-year status review under the ESA for the Mexican wolf, and requested submission of any new scientific and commercial data that has become available since the last review of the species.

FWS initiated five-year status reviews under the ESA for 27 species in the Mountain-Prairie region, and requested submission of any new scientific and commercial data that has become available since the last review of the species.

FWS announced its 12-month finding on a petition to list Joshua trees as endangered or threatened species under the ESA, finding that listing was unwarranted. 

FWS determined threatened species status for the longsolid and round hickorynut freshwater mussels under the ESA; designated approximately 1,115 river miles in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama as critical habitat for the longsolid and approximately 921 river miles in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as critical habitat for the round hickorynut; and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of both species.

FWS initiated five-year status reviews under the ESA for two northeastern species, and requests the submission of scientific and commercial data that has become available since the last review of the species.

FWS determined threatened species status for the Upper Coosa River distinct population segment of the frecklebelly madtom under the ESA, finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the species, and designated approximately 134 river miles in Georgia and Tennessee as critical habitat.

FWS listed prostrate milkweed as endangered under the ESA, and designated approximately 661 acres in Starr and Zapata Counties, Texas, as critical habitat for the species.

FWS proposed to list the Coastal-Southern California distinct population segment (DPS) of the California spotted owl as endangered and the Sierra Nevada DPS of the California spotted owl as threatened under the ESA, and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act for the Sierra Nevada DPS that provides for the conservation of the species.

FWS proposed to establish a nonessential experimental population of the gray wolf in Colorado under ESA §10(j).