Endangered Species Bulletin articles from March 2006

Endangered Species Bulletin archives from March 2006

Overcoming challenges to species recovery.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In 1973, when the Endangered Species Act (ESA) became law, the endangered and threatened species list numbered only 77 species, none of which were invertebrates or plants, and iconic species such as the bald eagle...

Multispecies recovery planning: benefits and challenges.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus) passes warily under the boardwalk while a salt marsh harvest mouse (Rallus longirostris obsoletus) clings to a clump of pickleweed just a few feet away. A...

Reversing a textbook tragedy.(oil spill in Clinch River)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A recent sunny morning along the Clinch River was the setting for a homecoming years in the making. Local children, media, Fish and Wildlife Service staff, and conservation officials from Virginia Tech University and...

The public role in conserving species.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Conservation biology is a field that requires the melding of biological and social sciences. This is particularly true when considering the conservation of organisms in areas with high human populations. Although...

Whooping crane population reaches record high.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A record 218 endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) arrived at their Texas wintering grounds (Aransas National Wildlife Refuge) in 2004-05. This is likely the highest number of whoopers wintering in Texas in the...

Endangered Laysan ducks thrive at Midway.
March 1, 2006... Island waterfowl are globally threatened. Hawaii has lost at least six of its nine unique waterfowl species since humans colonized the islands, and the remaining three are endangered. Fortunately, an "insurance policy" set up by the U.S....

Bull trout "flip" over Cabinet Gorge Dam.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since 1952, Cabinet Gorge Dam on the Clark Fork River has blocked fish from migrating from Lake Pend Oreille, the largest lake in Idaho, into most of western Montana. Among those fish were hundreds, perhaps...

Ferrets test freedom at Vermejo Park Ranch.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Clouds darkened the evening sky as three trucks skidded down the rain-slick ranch road toward a prairie dog town in northern New Mexico. Among the passengers were Mike McCollum, Southwest Regional Coordinator for the...

The return of the clams.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] A small group of biologists makes its way down the steep, rain-slicked river bank, taking care not to expose their bare legs to the prolific patches of briars and stinging nettle growing there. Finding a path to a...

First, acquire knowledge.(wildlife conservation)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Before a recovery plan for an endangered or threatened species can be written and carried out, knowledge of the species' life history is needed. If critical information is missing, recovery efforts can be thwarted....

Habitat is key for a diminutive deer.(Odocoileus virginianus clavium)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The diminutive Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium), like most other mammals of the Florida Keys, is endemic to these island habitats, at least at the subspecies level. The Keys, and these mammals, were isolated...

Captive propagation and the Key Largo Woodrat.
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Key Largo woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli), the southernmost subspecies of the eastern woodrat, is only known to occur in the hardwood hammock vegetation of northern Key Largo, Florida. Although habitat has...

Aleutian Canada goose: recovered and still going strong.(FOCUS ON REFUGES)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Aleutian Canada goose nests entirely on islands of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. When non-native predators including the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) and red fox (Vulpes vulpes) were introduced to...

Box score.(Table)
March 1, 2006... BOX SCORE Listings and Recovery Plans as of March 1, 2006 ENDANGERED THREATENED GROUP U.S. FOREIGN U.S. FOREIGN MAMMALS 68 254 11 20...