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GAO-03-211R 1 (2002-10-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapds0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 October 31, 2002 The Honorable Max Baucus The Honorable Lincoln D. Chafee United States Senate Subject: Transboundary Species: Potential Impact to Species The United States/Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement expired in March 2001. As part of the preparation process for renegotiating the agreement, the United States Trade Representative requested public comment on softwood lumber trade issues between the United States and Canada and on Canadian softwood lumbering practices. The comments received included allegations that Canadian lumbering and forestry practices were affecting animal species with U.S./Canadian ranges (transboundary species) that are listed as threatened or endangered in the United States. To consider these comments as well as provide useful information to the U.S. Trade Representative in the renegotiations, the Department of the Interior, with the Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) assistance, prepared a conservation status report on selected species that may be affected by the new agreement. The status report presented summaries of information on eight transboundary species and reached preliminary conclusions of potential impact to four species. You asked us to review the information and the process that Interior used to develop the January 2001 status report as well as provide you with updated information concerning several specific transboundary species. Accordingly, this report describes the (1) supporting information that FWS used and the process it followed when compiling its information for the Department of the Interior's January 2001 conservation status report on selected threatened or endangered species with U.S./Canadian ranges; and (2) existing U.S. and Canadian efforts aimed at protecting, monitoring, and facilitating the eventual recovery of four transboundary species-the bull trout, grizzly bear, marbled murrelet, and woodland caribou-listed as threatened or endangered in the United States. On October 4, 2002, we briefed your offices on the results of our work. This report transmits the materials used during that briefing. Results in Brief In compiling the information for the Department of the Interior's 2001 conservation status report for the U.S. Trade Representative, the Fish and Wildlife Service relied chiefly on previously published material and internal agency documents, such as GAO-03-211R Impact on Transboundary Species

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