# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; New 12-month Finding for a Petition to List the Florida Black Bear
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Notice of new 12-month petition finding. · Published 1998-12-08 · 63 FR 67613
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-32547
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **State:** FL
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 67613
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 1998-12-08
## Abstract

The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces a new 12- month finding for a petition to list the Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. After a review of all available scientific and commercial information, the Service finds that listing of the Florida black bear is not warranted at this time. This finding supersedes the previous 12- month finding that found listing of the Florida black bear to be warranted but precluded by higher priority listing actions. Furthermore, because the definition of a candidate species, one for which the Service has on file sufficient information on biological vulnerability and threats to support issuance of a proposed rule, no longer applies to the Florida black bear, we remove this species from the candidate species list.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/12/08/98-32547/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-new-12-month-finding-for-a-petition-to-list-the)
---
*AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*