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APPEND 1`X C Desert Fishes Council "Tedicated to the TheSeAvation o t uArnehica'g Tl eseht gighes" P.O. Box 276 Death Valley, CA 92328 February 7, 1979 RESOLUTION 78-3 RELATIVE TO THE TRANSPLANTATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS WHEREAS many animals and plants are listed as endangered and threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act, and WHEREAS transplantation within historic ranges may be a feasible and desirable management option designed to preserve these species, and WHEREAS acceptance of such transplantation by states, organizations, and individuals needs to be widened; now therefore be it RESOLVED that the Desert Fishes Council, an organization numbering in excess of 300 persons and comprising a nationwide and international representation of federal, state, and university scientists and resource specialists, members of conservation organizations, and individuals concerned with long-term environmental values, meeting at its Tenth Annual Symposium in Las Cruces, New Mexico on November 17, 1978, does hereby recommend that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explore the legal basis for, and the possible rapid.,implementation of, a policy to declare such transplanted populations as experimental and as unlisted under the Act, and to exempt such populations from inclusions under designations of critical habitat, unless and until such transplants may be demonstrated to be essential to prevent extinction of such taxa, except that prohibitions and penalties against unauthorized possession, taking, and related actions shall still apply, and be ?t ,further RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution.be forwarded to the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to the Governors of the 50 states, and to the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior. PASSED WITHOUT DISSENTING VOTE Feter T: G. Sanchez Chairman