Endangered Species Bulletin articles from July 2006

Endangered Species Bulletin archives from July 2006

Defense and conservation: compatible missions.
July 1, 2006... The Department of Defense (DoD) manages approximately 29 million acres (12 million hectares) of land throughout the nation. Access limits due to security considerations and the need for safety buffer zones have shielded these lands from...

Wildlife conservation and the U.S. Army.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Conservation of natural resources on the Army's 15 million acres (6 million hectares) has long been part of its heritage. In the 1870s, the Army sent cavalry troops to what are now Yosemite National Park and other...

Desert tortoises get help from the Marines.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) have crawled the Mojave Desert since California's southern interior was covered with green ponds and wetlands. Millions of years have altered the landscape dramatically, turning...

Eggert's sunflower prospers at Arnold AFB.
July 1, 2006... For more than seven years, the Eggert's sunflower (Helianthus eggertii) was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In 2005, however, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed this plant from the list, recognizing that it no...

In defense of coral reefs.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Coral reefs are the world's most biologically diverse marine ecosystems. They consist of a vast assemblage of plants, animals, and microbes, many of which are still scientifically unknown. Reef ecosystems provide...

Army's Hawaiian Plant propagation aids recovery.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Army Garrison Hawaii has eight training areas on the islands of O'ahu and Hawai'i (the "Big Island"). Within the boundaries of these areas, there are more than 100 endangered species, including birds, several...

Cooperative manatee research in Puerto Rico.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) inhabits the coastal waters of eastern Mexico, and Central America, northern South America, and the Greater Antilles. Puerto Rico may be its only stronghold in the...

Army National Guard discovers a tough little shrimp.(Jay Weaver and Dana Quinney discover the Branchinecta raptor)
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Idaho National Guard biologists Jay Weaver and Dana Quinney recently made a memorable discovery: a new species of giant predatory fairy shrimp. This crustacean lives in the waters of two desert playas (temporary...

Partners save the Sonoran pronghorn.(United States Air Force, Marine Corps, and Fish and Wildlife Service)
July 1, 2006... The endangered Sonoran pronghorn (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis) of Arizona and Mexico is among one of the Department of Defense's most eye-catching tenants. This graceful holder of the North American land speed record can run at speeds up...

Fort Riley's prairie partnership.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] As Lewis and Clark made their way up the Missouri River in 1804, they traversed the northeastern corner of Kansas and came upon something unexpected: the end of the deciduous forest and the beginning of the vast...

What's the rush at Warren Grove Gunnery Range?
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A large population of the Knieskern's beaked-rush (Rhynchospora knieskernii), a threatened plant, was discovered recently at the Air National Guard's Warren Grove Gunnery Range in New Jersey. Until the discovery,...

Woodpeckers find a home at Fort Bragg.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall occupy over 160,000 acres (65,000 hectares) of North Carolina. Both are located within an area known as the Sandhills Region, and they cover parts of six counties. These reservations,...

North Carolina plant is (re)discovered!(coastal goldenrod)
July 1, 2006... An extremely rare species of flowering plant with bright yellow bloom clusters has found a niche at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in coastal North Carolina. The showy coastal goldenrod (Solidago villosicarpa) apparently prefers habitat...

Of tanks and birds.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The limestone bedrock trembles as Abrams tanks rumble by seeking their targets. Overhead, an Apache attack helicopter provides surveillance. In the distance, the din of machine gun fire and artillery is heard. In...

Managing habitat for owls at Fort Huachuca.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Birdwatchers know southeast Arizona as one of the premier birding destinations in the United States. The diversity of habitats on or adjacent to Fort Huachuca--from San Pedro River riparian forests to montane...

DoD develops sound monitoring efforts.(Department of Defense)
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ever wonder what the Department of Defense uses its high-tech surveillance equipment for? Most would answer, "To gather intelligence on a particular target." And this would be true, especially if the surveillance...

Conservation tools workshops in Georgia.(Conference news)
July 1, 2006... How do you enlist the support of private landowners around military installations to promote good habitat conservation practices? This is the question a group of natural resource professionals decided to tackle in the last few months of 2005....

Compatible land use partnerships.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There was a time when many military installations were considered remote. They had few neighbors, generated few complaints, experienced few environmental restrictions, and conducted their business relatively...

Defense's TES document repository.(Department of Defense, threatened and endangered species )
July 1, 2006... Imagine a single source for scientifically relevant, but otherwise unavailable, information on threatened and endangered species (TES). Now, imagine having that source right at your fingertips. Finally, imagine this source is free and open to...

Listing actions.
July 1, 2006... Proposed and final listing rules were published from January 1 to June 1, 2006, for the following species: Proposed Rules Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Saying that gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan have recovered from the...

The conservation of pollinating species.(PARTNERS FOR POLLINATORS)
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pollinating animals are critically important to the maintenance of virtually all terrestrial ecosystems, yet the population status of most pollinating species often goes unnoticed. Butterflies, moths, bats, birds,...

Forging partnerships for habitat restoration.(PARTNERS FOR FISH AND WILDLIFE)
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The majority of our Nation's fish and wildlife resources are found on privately owned lands. Because the habitat needs of most endangered and threatened species cannot be met solely on public lands, voluntary...

Box score.(Table)
July 1, 2006... BOX SCORE Listings and Recovery Plans as of July 1, 2006 ENDANGERED THREATENED GROUP U.S. FOREIGN U.S. FOREIGN MAMMALS 68 256 13 20...