Status and Distribution. Life History and Habitat Requirements Threats and Limiting Factors Survival and Recovery Needs Conservation and Recovery Efforts to Date [Briefly summarize actions taken for the species both range wide and locally including agencies and cooperators involved.] DESCRIPTION OF THE COVERED LANDS Covered Lands [Include county and describe boundaries of the geographical area to be covered by the CCAA. Include a map noting the area to be covered by the CCAA. If there are areas that are not being enrolled in the CCAA that are within the geographical area boundaries described, explicitly indicate areas that are not included.]
Status and Distribution. Xxxxxxx’x lupine was listed as threatened, on January 25, 2000 (USFWS 2000). A critical habitat determination was proposed for the species on November 2, 2005 (USFWS 2005). Xxxxxxx’x lupine is a long-lived perennial species with a maximum reported age of 25 years. Individual plants are capable of spreading by rhizomes, producing clumps of plants exceeding 20 meters (m) (33 feet [ft]) in diameter. Xxxxxxx’x lupine occurs in 76 occurrences, totaling approximately 1,150 acres (465 ha) in size, scattered across six counties (Xxxxx County, Washington, and Yamhill, Polk, Benton, Lane, and Xxxxxxx Counties, Oregon) (USFWS 2005). Xxxxxxx’x lupine populations in Xxxxxxx County, Oregon, represent the furthest southern extent of the current range. These populations are highly disjunct and isolated from the Willamette Valley populations with approximately 54 miles (87 km) separating Oregon’s south Willamette Valley populations from the Xxxxxxx County populations. In Xxxxxxx County, Xxxxxxx’x lupine occurs at eight sites ranging in size from 0.21 to 3.55 acres. The primary habitat for Xxxxxxx’x lupine in Xxxxxxx County is open woodland and meadow edges, often near roadsides, associated with Arbutus menziesii (Pacific madrone), Calocedrus decurrens (incense cedar), and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Xxxxxxx-fir) trees with a relatively open canopy cover. Most of the Xxxxxxx County populations appear to tolerate more shaded habitat conditions than the Willamette Valley populations with canopy cover of 50 to 80 percent (Xxxxxx 2004). These plants are found in wooded areas dominated by Xxxxxxx-fir, Pacific madrone, and other trees and shrubs (Xxxxxx 2004). Because these populations represent the southern-most extent of this species’ range, they may be adapted to tolerate more extreme habitat and/or other environmental conditions.
Status and Distribution. Xxxxxxx’x lupine was listed as threatened, on January 25, 2000 (USFWS 2000). Critical habitat was proposed for the species on November 2, 2005 (USFWS 2005). Xxxxxxx’x lupine is a long-lived perennial species with a maximum reported age of 25 years. Individual plants are capable of spreading by rhizomes, producing clumps of plants exceeding 20 meters (33 feet) in diameter.
Status and Distribution. The ocelot is a medium-sized felid with a large geographic range in the Americas. Ocelots can be found in regions from northern Argentina and Uruguay up to northern Mexico and the southern United States. In the United States, ocelots are only known to occur in isolated areas of southern Arizona and in South Texas (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2016). In southern Arizona, male ocelots are detected in sky island habitats after dispersing from breeding populations immediately south in Sonora, Mexico (Rorabaugh et al. 2020). However, there is no evidence suggesting that a resident, breeding ocelot population is present in Arizona (Rorabaugh et al. 2020). Ocelots were historically believed to exist throughout different regions in Texas and even into the western edges of Louisiana and Arkansas (Schmidly and Xxxxxxx 2016, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2016). In Texas, historical account of ocelots - including harvest records, museum records, and scientific accounts - from the late nineteenth century through mid-twentieth century reflect evidence of ocelots in eastern Texas, the Central Texas Hill Country, the Southern Texas Brush Country, and areas around Big Bend National Park (Xxxxxx 1905, Xxxx and Lay 1942, Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx 2016). Despite wide historical distribution in Texas, ocelot populations declined considerably in the twentieth century due to large scale habitat loss and fragmentation (e.g., land conversion and habitat removal), trapping for the fur and pet trades, and indiscriminate predator control practices. By the early 1980s, ocelots were rarely seen in Texas and distribution was unknown (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2016). As a species, ocelots were listed first listed as endangered by the United States in 1972, and ocelots’ listing as a domestic endangered species was clarified by the United States in 1982 (47 FR 31670). Today, ocelots in Texas are known to occur in coastal South Texas in two isolated breeding populations that total less than 100 known individuals (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2016, Xxxxxxxx et al. 2021). The larger remaining breeding ocelot population in Texas - the Ranch Population - occurs on private ranchlands and conservation easements in Willacy, Kenedy, and Kleberg Counties. Over 60 ocelots are likely to exist in this population (Xxxxxxxx et al. 2022b). However, the exact size and distribution of this population remains unknown due to lack of large-scale systematic surveys for ocelots on private property (U.S. Fis...
Status and Distribution. The Service listed the NSO as federally threatened under the ESA on June 26, 1990 (55 FR 26114-26194). Critical habitat was designated on federal lands in 1992 and revised in 2008 and 2012. A draft Recovery Plan for the NSO was issued in 2007 (USDI FWS 2007), a final Recovery Plan was published in 2008 (USDI FWS 2008), and a Revised Recovery Plan was published in 2011 (USDI FWS 2011). The NSO is associated with coniferous forests from southwest British Columbia through the Cascade Range, coastal ranges, and intervening forested lands in Washington, Oregon, and northern California, as far south as Marin County.
Status and Distribution. The xxxx xxxx was federally listed as endangered under the ESA in 1974. Since 1979 the northwestern subspecies of xxxx wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis) has been recolonizing its former range, beginning with natural recolonization of northern Montana from populations in Canada. From 1995 to 1996, a reintroduction program was instituted in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho (MFWP 2015, ODFW 2015). Wolves have since spread to several other states and have been observed in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, South Dakota and, most recently, California (CDFG 2011). The first confirmed xxxx xxxx occurrence in California, since 1924 when the last known wolf was killed in Lassen County, was in 2011 along the California/Oregon border in Siskiyou County (CDFW 2018). The first evidence of a wolf pack recolonizing California was in 2015 when cameras in northern California recorded images of two adult wolves and five pups. This group was dubbed the Shasta Pack (CDFW 2018) and represented the first confirmation of wolf reproduction in California in over 90 years. Currently, the known xxxx xxxx range in California includes northeastern portions of the state in Lassen, Plumas, Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou counties. The California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) listed the xxxx xxxx as an endangered species under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) on June 4, 2014. A conservation plan was finalized and released by CDFW in December 2016 and provides the most recent and complete descriptions available of the life history, distribution, population status and conservation objectives for wolves in California. The California Wolf Management Plan works to conserve wolves by providing wolf habitat and managing for biologically sustainable populations of prey species, including ungulates such as elk and deer (Xxxxxx et al. 2016).
Status and Distribution. The Amargosa vole is federally listed as endangered with designated critical habitat (Service 1984) and is also State listed as endangered (CDFW 1980). The Amargosa vole is one of 17 subspecies of the California vole (Microtus californicus). The historical range of the Amargosa vole is confined to an approximately 10-mile stretch of wetland habitat near the communities of Shoshone and Tecopa in southeastern Inyo County, California (see Figure 1). The type specimen was collected from Shoshone in 1891 (Xxxxxx 1900). Subsequent unsuccessful trapping attempts to find additional Amargosa voles led to the incorrect conclusion that the subspecies had gone extinct (Xxxxxxx 1918). Additional trapping efforts in the 1930s were successful near the community of Tecopa Hot Springs (Xxxxxx 1979a). Trapping inventories of extant wetland “pockets” between 1977 and 1988 documented additional Amargosa vole sites along the Amargosa River drainage, extending from a tributary spring 0.5 mile north of Tecopa Hot Springs to the south for approximately 3.5 miles to the northern end of Amargosa Canyon (Xxxxx and Xxxxxx 0000, Xxxxxx 1979b, Rado and Xxxxxxxx 1984, Xxxxxx and Xxxxx 1989). The current range of the Amargosa vole is confined to 36 marshes in the Lower Amargosa River Valley in the vicinity of Tecopa Hot Springs and the northern end of the Amargosa Canyon (Figure 1). The Amargosa vole obligately depends upon, and is closely associated with, wetland vegetation dominated by Olney’s three-square bulrush (Schoenoplectus americanus), where it generally occurs in isolated and disjunct marshes surrounded by saltgrass-dominated habitats or more xeric desert scrub or barren areas. Although we do not understand all of the mechanisms that drive habitat selection, plausible explanations for habitat preference may include the presence of standing and flowing water, reliance on Olney’s three-square bulrush as a vital food source, and utilization of bulrush litter layers (up to 3.3 feet in depth) for thermoregulation, nesting, and predator avoidance.
