1.   Whereas the endangered species listing is determined solely upon scientific data, economics play a role in Deciding critical habitat.

2.   And the officials think there is a way to do it without the legal rancor that has attended species listings.

3.   However, federal regulators, who Wednesday decided to have the endangered species listing published in the Federal Register, did not propose any new restrictions on fishing.

4.   Last year, a sixth-month moratorium on new endangered species listings passed as part of supplemental defense spending bill.

5.   The relaxation of requirements for endangered or threatened species listings.

6.   The state had the most new champions in the just-released Register of Big Trees, a species listing of the largest trees in the United States.

7.   The National Marine Fisheries Service joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last November in deciding to seek the endangered species listing.

8.   An endangered species listing would ban killing the shark and enable programs to be put in place to build up its numbers, he said.