Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Establishment of a Nonessential Experimental Population of California Condors in Northern Arizona

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, plans to reintroduce California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) into northern Arizona/southern Utah and to designate these birds as a nonessential experimental population under the Endangered Species Act. This reintroduction will achieve a primary recovery goal for this endangered species, the establishment of a second non-captive population, spatially disjunct from the non-captive population in southern California. This California condor reintroduction does not conflict with existing or anticipated Federal or State agency actions or current and future land, water, or air uses on public or private lands.