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new facts, techniques, and objec- 
tives. Individual tasks assigned to 
specific agencies by the team be- 
come a budgetary mechanism for 
planning the funding of a recovery 
effort. 
Teams work under some con- 
traints. They make recommenda- 
tions rather than ‘‘direct’’ what 
should be done. They are not per- 
mitted to address socio-economic 
or political restraints which are not 
within their purview of expertise. 
They do not engage in the actual 
process of acquiring land for habi- 
tat nor do they discuss the eco- 
nomic impacts of their recommen- 
dations with business people or 
other persons in an affected locale. 
All of the teams have been 
formed for the duration of carrying 
out their recovery plans. Once the 
prime objectives have been met, 
they will be disbanded. However, 
over the long term, the Service is 
considering forming regional teams 
which would oversee prime habitat 
areas or ecosystems to assure that 
former endangered or threatened 
Species are able to maintain viable 
populations and are not subjected 
again to adverse environmental 
factors. 
—Endangered Species Program 
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 
FALCON RECOVERY 
EFFORTS ENTER SECOND 
YEAR 
Twenty-eight American pere- 
grine falcons (Falco peregrinus) 
raised in captivity at Cornell Uni- 
versity’s Ornithology: Laboratory 
have been released in Colorado 
and five eastern states over the past 
several weeks. 
The experimental project under 
the direction of Dr. Tom Cade is 
designed to release upwards of 100 
to 200 of these birds a year, until 
they have reoccupied their vacant 
niche in the raptor world. 
The peregrine falcon was extir- 
pated east of the Mississippi River 
in the early 1960’s. Some believe 
the bird is no longer to be found 
nesting from the east slope of the 
Rockies to the Atlantic. It is this 
uncertainty which prompted Dr. 
Cade and others to begin a stock- 
ing program in Colorado. A breed- 
