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Is this land in designated critical habitat?

Critical habitat is designated per species, by rule, and an answer has to name both: which species, and whether the designation is final or proposed. ParcelOps checks the point against the federal designation layers and returns the species and the rule behind each hit. The designation constrains federal actions and federal permits. It is not by itself a prohibition on private land use, and its practical weight on a project depends entirely on whether the project has a federal permit, funding, or approval attached to it.

A point against final and proposed designation polygons, named by species.

Where this answer comes from.

Each of these has its own page naming the office that publishes it, how often it updates, and what it cannot answer. Rebuilt from the ParcelOps source directory on September 9, 2026.

Where this stops.

The part a search result will not tell you, and the part worth reading before this answer goes into a decision.

  • Listed species living on a property without a designated boundary over it do not appear here at all, and take prohibitions can still apply to them.
  • State listed species and state habitat rules are separate records held by separate agencies, and this answer does not reach them.
  • Whether consultation is required is a question about the project and its federal nexus, not a question the map can answer.

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    The published earthquake catalog around a coordinate, with magnitude, depth, and date. Why a quiet catalog is a statement about the instrument record, not about hazard.

The lanes this question belongs to.

A lane page lists every source that kind of work reads, not only the ones behind this question, and states where the whole lane stops.

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