About the Asheville Field Office

• Strategic plan (853 KB)
• The work of the Asheville Field Office (97 KB)
• The work of Ecological Services Offices (79 KB)

 

Conservation Issues in the Asheville Field Office

• Preparing for white nose syndrome in North Carolina (pdf 629 KB)
• Connecting people with nature (1.15 MB)
• Conservation of our mountaintop islands (608 KB)
• Dam removal in the Toe River Valley (1.62 MB)
• Dam removal (156 KB)
• Fish passage (44KB)
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (765 KB)

Project planning and review

• Project Review by Fish & Wildlife Service (127 KB)
• Dam removal (156 KB)
• Small reservoirs - their impacts and alternatives (162KB)
• Fish passage (44 KB)
• Swimming with the Current - a local government guide to environmental review and stream protection (5.05 MB)

Environmental education
and interpretation

• Curricula
  
• Conservation reading list (54KB)
• Wetlands coloring book (1.46 MB)
• Mark Trail coloring book (2.34 MB)

Private landowners

• Partners for Fish & Wildlife program in North Carolina (151 KB)
• Partners for Fish & Wildlife program in Georgia (172 KB)
• Landscaping With Native Plants (627 KB)



• Backyard habitat development fact sheets
• Hummingbird Haven (35 KB)
• Christmas Trees for Wildlife (46 KB)
• Beneficial Bats (36 KB)
• Bird Feeding (37 KB)
• Attracting Butterflies (46 Kb)
• Native Plants for Your Backyard (93 KB)
• Invasive Plants in Our Backyards (119 KB)

Threatened and Endangered Species

• List of threatened and endangered species in North Carolina (41KB)

• Animals
• Appalachian elktoe (498 KB)
• Bog turtle (198 KB)
• Carolina heelsplitter (183 KB)
• Carolina northern flying squirrel (218 KB)
• Dwarf wedgemussel (192 KB)
• Gray bat (193 KB)
• Indiana bat (179 KB)
• Noonday globe snail (181 KB)
• Rock gnome lichen (199 KB)
• Spruce fir moss spider (182 KB)
• Tar spinymussel (187 KB)
• Virginia big-eared bat (476 KB)
• Plants
• Blue Ridge goldenrod (216 Kb)
• Bunched arrowhead (178 KB)
• Dwarf flowered heartleaf (189 KB)
• Green pitcher plant (176 KB)
• Heller's blazing star (186 KB)
• Mountain golden heather (182 KB)
• Roan Mountain bluet (176 KB)
• Virginia spiraea (188 KB)
• White irisette (171 KB)
• Schweinitz's sunflower (194 KB)
• Small anthered bittercress (316 KB)
• Small whorled pogonia (189 KB)
• Spreading avens (171 KB)
• Virginia spiraea (188 KB)
• White irisette (171 KB)

 

Endangered Species Act Overview

• Why Saving Endangered Species Matters (135 KB)
• What You Can Do to Help Wildlife and Plants (205KB)
• Endangered Species Act Basics: Over 25 Years of Protecting Endangered Species (159 KB)



• Listing a Species as Threatened or Endangered
• Petition Process for Requests to List a Species as Endangered or Threatened Under the Endangered Species Act (124 KB)
• Listing a Species as Threatened or Endangered (201 KB)
• Critical Habitat: What is It? (210 KB)



• Working with Private Landowners
• Our Endangered Species Program and How it Works With Private Landowners (149 KB)
• Safe Harbor Agreements for Private Landowners (55KB)
• Safe Harbor Agreements for Private Property Owners: Questions and Answers (132 KB)
• Habitat Conservation Plans and the Incidental Take Permitting Process (198 KB)
• Habitat Conservation Plan Overview (37 KB)



• Consulting with Federal Agencies
• Consultations with Federal Agencies: Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (416 KB)
• The Federal Role in Habitat Protection (188 KB)



• Working to Recover Species
• Restoring Our Wildlife Legacy (564 KB)
• Partnerships with States: Tools for Helping Communities and Landowners Conserve Species Habitat (144 KB)



• Protecting Species Before They Become Threatened or Endangered
• The Endangered Species Act and Candidate Species (158 KB)
• Candidate Species and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances for Non-Federal Property Owners (153 KB)