Endangered Species Bulletin articles from September 1999

Endangered Species Bulletin archives from September 1999

The Candidate Conservation Program.
September 1, 1999... What Exactly is a Candidate? This question has been posed to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service frequently in the past several years, due mostly to confusion about our agency's 1996 decision to discontinue maintaining the list of "category...

Community-based Stewardship in Nevada.
September 1, 1999... The Great Basin population of the Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris), a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act, occurs in eastern Oregon, southern Idaho, and northern and central Nevada. At present, candidate conservation...

Making Room for the Amargosa Toad.
September 1, 1999... When a university biologist studying the Amargosa toad (Bufo nelsoni) concluded in 1994 that only 32 adult toads remained in the Oasis Valley of southern Nevada, a petition to list this amphibian as an endangered species soon followed. During...

Candidate Conservation in the Southwest.
September 1, 1999... Tough our candidate conservation program, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) works with interested parties to conserve and restore candidates for listing even before the need for legal protection, often making it unnecessary to list these...

Fish Management at the Pueblo of Zuni.
September 1, 1999... The 600,000-acre (240,000-hectare) Zuni Reservation encompasses a landscape of broad mesas, tall sandstone buttes, and open valleys on the western slope of the Continental Divide. Straddling the States of Arizona and New Mexico, this semi-arid...

Least Chub Candidate Conservation.
September 1, 1999... The least chub (Iotichthys phlegethontis) is a small minnow endemic to the Bonneville Basin of Utah. Historically, it was widely distributed in freshwater ponds, swamps, springs, and tributaries around the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, and Sevier...

Fish Conservation on Roaring Springs Ranch.
September 1, 1999... The numerous streams flowing from Steens Mountain of southeastern Oregon into the surrounding valleys provide habitat for threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi); other species petitioned for listing, such as the...

A Success Story in the Making.
September 1, 1999... In 1977, Dr. Clait Braun of the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) noticed that sage grouse (Centrocercus sp.)wings collected in the Gunnison Basin of southwestern Colorado were smaller than sage grouse wings collected in northern Colorado....

Conserving the Utah Bonneville Cutthroat Trout.
September 1, 1999... The Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki utah), one of 14 recognized subspecies of cutthroat trout native to the western United States, is endemic to rivers, streams, and lakes of the Bonneville Basin of Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and...

Saving Southeastern Aquatic Species.
September 1, 1999... The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Tennessee Aquarium, located in Chattanooga, will strengthen their conservation partnership soon with the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). An MOU is an agreement that promotes...

One Continent for All.
September 1, 1999... Every spring, millions of birds wing their way from Mexico and the United States to settle on nests in the forests, plains, tundras, and coasts of Canada. Bats and butterflies follow similar air routes back to the greening north. Whales, seals,...

Region 1.
September 1, 1999... Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) staff coordinated with the Sierra National Forest, Madera County, and the California Highway Patrol to protect a pair of adult bald eagles and their nestling on Bass Lake in...

Region 3.
September 1, 1999... Gray Wolf The recovery of gray wolves in the western Great Lakes States continues with an increase in wolf numbers and range in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. A gray wolf population of 2,445 was estimated in Minnesota following a 1997-98...

Region 4.
September 1, 1999... Sea Turtles During August 1999, the FWS and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) joined forces to help save sea turtles. Sandy MacPherson (FWS National Sea Turtle Coordinator) and Barbara Schroeder (NMFS National Sea Turtle Coordinator)...

Region 5.
September 1, 1999... Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) A new nesting pair of peregrine falcons on North Fork Mountain in Pendleton County, West Virginia, is the first breeding record for this bird in the State since 1992. Both of the adults are banded, but no...

Listing Actions.
September 1, 1999... During June and July of 1999, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published the following proposed and final Endangered Species Act (ESA) rules in the Federal Register: Proposed Rules Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Habitat loss,...

BOX SCORE.
September 1, 1999... Listings and Recovery Plans as of October 31,1999 ENDANGERED THREATENED GROUP U.S. FOREIGN U.S. FOREIGN ?? MAMMALS 61 248 8 16...