Large-flowered Fiddleneck (Amsinckia grandiflora)
CDFW photo by Susan Cochrane
Additions Part Of Comprehensive Effort To Ensure All Endangered Species Act Recovery Plans Contain Quantifiable Recovery Goals
July 18, 2019 - As part of an agency-wide effort to advance the recovery of our nation’s most imperiled species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has made publicly available draft revisions for 29 Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery plans that provide a recovery roadmap for 42 federally protected species. This is the second batch of revised recovery plans, and is part of the Department of the Interior’s Agency Priority Performance Goals, which call for all ESA recovery plans to include quantitative criteria on what constitutes recovery by September 2019.
Recovery plans are non-regulatory guidance documents that identify, organize and prioritize recovery actions, set measurable recovery objectives, and include time and cost estimates. In total, the Service will revise up to 182 recovery plans covering some 305 species.
The Service’s success in preventing extinctions and recovering species is due to ESA-inspired partnerships with diverse stakeholders, such as state, federal, and tribal wildlife agencies, industry, conservation groups and citizens. Each species for which recovery criteria are being revised in this effort has undergone or is currently undergoing a status review that considers the best scientific and commercial data that have become available since the species’ listing or most recent status review. This information includes: (1) the biology of the species, (2) habitat conditions, (3) conservation measures that have benefitted the species, (4) threat status and trends in relation to the five listing factors, and (5) other information, data, or corrections.
As such, these revisions reflect scientific and informational updates, which have been gained from years of collaborative work with our partners. Revisions benefit endangered and threatened species, our partners, and the public by sharing the best available information about what is really needed to achieve recovery.
Under guidance established in 2010, partial revisions, such as amendments, allow the Service to update recovery plans with the latest science and information without having to revise the entire plan, which can be a time- and resource-intensive undertaking.
The document appears today in the Federal Register Reading Room here: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection. There will be a 30-day comment period on the proposed revisions, ending on July 29, 2019.
We are requesting submission of any information that may help achieve (1) the necessary understanding of species’ biology, threats and recovery needs; (2) identification of implementation issues and concerns; and (3) facilitation of more effective implementation, associated with these draft revisions that update recovery criteria for these 42 species.
The plan revisions cover the following species:
Table 1. List of Animals in Batch 2
| Common Name | Range | Recovery Plan | Hyperlink to Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
|
HI | Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Passerines Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Guam rail | Guam | Native Forest Birds of Guam and Rota of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Mariana gray swiftlet | Guam, Northern Mariana Islands | Mariana Islands Population of the Vanikoro Swiftlet (Aerodramus vanikorensis bartschi( | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Rota bridled white-eye | Guam, Northern Mariana Islands | Recovery Plan for the Nosa Luta or Rota Bridled White-Eye (Zosterops rotensis) | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Mariana common moorhen | Northern Mariana Islands | Recovery Plan for the Mariana Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus guami) | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Interrupted rocksnail | AL, GA | Recovery Plan for Georgia Pigtoe Mussel (Pleurobema hanleyianum) Interrupted rocksnail (Leptoxis foreman) and Rough hornsnail (Pleurocera foremani) | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
|
CA | Recovery Plan for the San Bruno Elfin and Mission Blue Butterflies | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Valley elderberry longhorn beetle | CA | Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Light-footed clapper rail | CA | Light-footed Clapper Rail Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Delhi Sands flower-loving fly | CA | Recovery Plan for the Delhi Sands Flower-Loving Fly | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| St. Croix ground lizard | U.S. Virgin Islands | Recovery Plan for the St. Croix Ground Lizard, (Ameiva polops) | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
Table 2. List of Plants in Batch 2
| Common Name | Range | Recovery Plan | Hyperlink to Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
|---|---|---|---|
| American chaffseed | AL, FL, GA, LA, MA, NJ, NC, SC | American Chaffseed (Schwalbea americana) Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Palo de ramon | Puerto Rico | Banara vanderbiltiiRecovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Vahl’s boxwood | Puerto Rico | Vahl’s Boxwood (Buxus vahlii) Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Cordia bellonis (no common name) | Puerto Rico | Recovery Plan for Cordia bellonis | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
|
Puerto Rico | Ilex cookii and Cyathea dryopteroides Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
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Puerto Rico | Recovery Plan for Mitracarpus maxwelliae,Mitracarpus polycladus and Eugenia woodburyana | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Beautiful Goetzea | Puerto Rico | Beautiful Goetzea Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Higo chumbo | Puerto Rico | Recovery Plan for Higo Chumbo (Harrisia portoricensis) | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Leptocereus grantianus (No common name) | Puerto Rico | Leptocereus grantianusRecovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Erubia | Puerto Rico | Solanum drymophilumRecovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Bariaco | Puerto Rico | Bariaco (Trichilia triacantha) Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Calyptranthes thomasiana(no common name) | U.S. Virgin Islands | Recovery Plan for the Calyptranthes thomasiana | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| San Mateo thornmint | CA | Recovery Plan for Serpentine | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
|
CA | Soil Species of the San Francisco Bay Area | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Large-flowered fiddleneck | CA | Large-Flowered Fiddleneck (Amsinckia grandiflora) Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Presidio manzanita | CA | Recovery Plan for Coastal Plants of the Northern San Francisco Peninsula | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Sonoma spineflower | CA | Recovery Plan for Seven Coastal Plants and the Myrtle’s Silverspot Butterfly | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
|
CA | Recovery Plan for Gabbro Soil Plants of the Central Sierra Nevada Foothills | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
| Steamboat buckwheat | NV | Steamboat Buckwheat Recovery Plan | Proposed Recovery Plan Amendment |
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. For more information about our work and the people who make it happen, visit www.fws.gov/Sacramento. Connect with us via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
