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Show Tennis Oil Assist Ed:nc3FGd Spscics The first phase of a priority undertaking to restore endangered endan-gered animals in the United States to a healthy balance in the wild has been announced with the naming of 31 teams of wildlife experts by Keith M. Schreinter, Associate Directorof the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. EACH TEAM will be responsible re-sponsible for developing a recovery plan designed to the specific needs of one animal or of several animals occupying occupy-ing a common ecosystem. The 31 teams are the first of an anticipated total of 50 to 60 recovery teams that the Fish and Wildlife Service will form and set to work between now and July 1, 1975. Each team will comprise three to six wildlife experts drawn from private, academic and government organizations. THE SPECIES announced include animals that are in critical condition in the wild and animals with which a reasonable degree of success is likely or which have been the subject of considerable field research programs for some time. All 31 teams will draw up specific plans denoting specific actions needed, ob-jectivies, ob-jectivies, and time frames for accomplishment of the actions ac-tions taken to restore the individual in-dividual species. These plans will be reviewed regularly and changed as tasks are completed complet-ed and the animals' situations change. |