Endangered Species Bulletin articles from May 2000

Endangered Species Bulletin archives from May 2000

Restoring Our Wildlife Legacy.
May 1, 2000... Recovery of endangered species involves many scientific and societal challenges. The continued success of our recovery program in meeting these challenges will require research, innovation, partnership, sufficient resources, and time. ...

Wind In Their Wings: The Condor Recovery Program.
May 1, 2000... The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) once soared over much of the North American continent. Its range extended from British Columbia, Canada, down the Pacific coast to central Mexico, across the southern United States, and up the...

Return to the Wild.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Since its inception in the 1970s, the California Condor Recovery Program has faced repeated challenges, controversies, and setbacks, but it remains focused on one goal: reestablishing healthy, self-sustaining populations of California condors...

Fire on the Mountain.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... In the spring of 1816, pioneering botanist Thomas Nuttall made an arduous 3,900-foot (1,190-meter) climb up to the rim of a deep gorge in North Carolina. From the rocky, windswept ridge, he could see for miles in all directions as the horizon...

Whooping Crane Recovery Update.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... In 1941, a group of just 15 whooping cranes took wing across the Central Flyway, a migratory route that stretches from the prairie provinces of Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. It was the same migratory route their ancestors had followed for...

Ferrets Home on the Range.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The reintroduction of black-footed ferrets to the wild began in the Shirley Basin, Wyoming, in 1991. Additional reintroductions have taken place at the Conata Basin/Badlands area of South Dakota in 1994; Charles M. Russell National Wildlife...

Ferret Restoration on Fort Belknap Reservation.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The Fort Belknap Indian Community has been an active participant in black-footed ferret recovery efforts since 1997, when 23 ferrets were first reintroduced on the Fort Belknap Reservation. With more than 13,000 acres (5,260 hectares) of active...

Wild Goose Chase Helps Save Wild Goose.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Through 25-foot swells, the small boat crept along on its 200-mile journey. Below decks in the engine room, John Martin fought back waves of nausea brought on by diesel fumes and the heaving sea. His job: to keep four dozen endangered goose...

Reintroducing Hawaii's Silverswords.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Of the many endangered plant species in the Hawaiian Islands, silverswords have the highest profile due to their radiant beauty and the severity of the threats confronting them. The large-scale reintroduction of greenhouse-grown seedlings is...

Bringing Mussels Back in the Southeast.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The world's greatest diversity of freshwater mussels occurs in the continental United States. Early American naturalists marveled at this fauna's beauty and diversity. T.A. Conrad wrote in a paper presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of...

A Road Trip for Recovery.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... It's slow going down a rocky back road to the Pecos River. Stiff springs on the four-wheel drive jostle me around the cab. The corrugated road bisects low hills rounded off by incessant winds. Only stiff, scrubby creosotes that stand unyielding...

Stakeholders Assist Species Recovery in the Southwest.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Restoring our nation's rare plant and animal resources to a secure status is a task much too large for any single agency. To assist us in this effort, the Fish and Wildlife Service has adopted a policy of involving stakeholders--local...

Multi Species Recovery Plans.
May 1, 2000... After stabilizing species that are headed for extinction, the ultimate goal of the Endangered Species Act is to recover endangered and threatened plants and animals to a secure status. Once a species is listed under the Act, a recovery plan is...

Hatcheries Promote Fish Recovery.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The FWS Fisheries Program comprises a nationwide network of National Fish Hatcheries, Fish Technology Centers, Fish Health Centers, and Fishery Resources Offices. Together, these facilities provide a wealth of expertise in fish restoration and...

Texas Wild-rice Finds Refuge at Hatchery.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... While some folks fretted over a Y2K meltdown last New Year's Eve, biologists at the San Marcos National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center contended with a real crisis: the accidental drawdown of the San Marcos River in central Texas. The...

LISTING ACTIONS.(new endangered species)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... During February and March 2000, the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published the following Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing actions in the Federal Register. The full text of each proposed and final...

ON THE WEB.(wildlife conservation sites)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The Fish and Wildlife Service's recovery program home page has more information on many of the issues discussed in this edition of the Bulletin. To enter the website, go to http://endangered.fws.gov and click on "Recovery." Through this site,...

Region 1.(plant extinction)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Fish and Wildlife Service regional endangered species staffers have reported the following news: Non-native Plant Control The 22nd annual "Lupine Bash" took place recently at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife...

Region 4.(stork populations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) The Service, in cooperation with several other state, federal, and private interests, hopes to conduct surveys during the upcoming nesting season, beginning in October, to determine the current status of this...

Region 5.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Bog Turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii) The Service's New Jersey Field Office participated in a series of meetings with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and the Township of Hardyston in Sussex County regarding a proposed...

Washington, D.C., Office.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Earth Day 2000 The 30th anniversary of Earth Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm on the Mall in Washington, D.C. On April 22, several hundred thousand conservation-minded people joined Vice President Gore to learn about the current issues...

BOX SCORE.
May 1, 2000... Listings and Recovery Plans as of June 30, 2000 ENDANGERED THREATENED GROUP U.S. FOREIGN U.S. FOREIGN MAMMALS 63 251 9 16 BIRDS 77 176...