Endangered Species
Midwest Region

 

 

Map of Region 3 Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan

Endangered Species Resource Materials

Fact Sheets, Brochures, and Pamphlets

 

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The endangered species resource materials listed below can be sent to you free of charge from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Endangered Species, Region 3. Most of our materials focus on species that can be found in the 8-state area of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Some of the materials were developed by other agencies.

 

Many products are available on our website or you may request resource materials by writing, telephoning, or faxing the Division of Endangered Species. You may download a PDF version this list and write your request directly on it. Please indicate how many of each item you would like and be sure to include your complete mailing address. We have fact sheets for the following species:

 

Mammals

____ Black-footed ferret (PDF)
____ Canada lynx (PDF)
____ Florida panther (PDF)
____ Giant panda (PDF)
____ Gray bat
____ Gray wolf
____ Grizzly bear
____ Indiana bat

____ Polar bear (PDF)
____ Red wolf
____ West Indian manatee (PDF)

 

Birds

____ Bald eagle
____ Brown pelican (PDF)
____ California condor
____ Interior least tern
____ Ivory-billed woodpecker (brochure)
____ Kirtland's warbler
____ Piping plover
____ Whooping crane (PDF)

 

Reptiles

____ American alligator (PDF)
____ Copperbelly water snake
____ Desert tortoise (PDF)
____ Eastern massasauga
____ Lake Erie water snake
____ Leatherback Sea Turtle (PDF)

 

Fishes

____ Neosho madtom
____ Niangua darter
____ Ozark cavefish
____ Pallid sturgeon
____ Scioto madtom
____ Topeka shiner

 

Clams (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

____ Clubshell
____ Cracking pearlymussel
____ Curtis' pearlymussel
____ Fanshell
____ Fat pocketbook
____ Higgin's eye pearlymussel
____ Northern riffleshell
____ Orange-foot pimpleback pearlymussel
____ Pink mucket pearlymussel
____ Purple cat's paw pearlymussel
____ Ring pink mussel
____ Rough pigtoe

____ Scaleshell
____ Tubercled-blossom pearlymussel
____ White cat's paw pearlymussel
____ White wartyback pearlymussel
____ Winged mapleleaf mussel

 

Snails

____ Iowa Pleistocene snail
____ Tumbling Creek cavesnail


Insects

____ American burying beetle

____ Dakota skipper
____ Hine's emerald dragonfly
____ Hungerford's crawling water beetle
____ Karner blue butterfly
____ Mitchell's satyr butterfly

 

Crustaceans

____ Illinois cave amphipod

 

Plants

____ American hart's-tongue fern
____ Decurrent false aster
____ Dwarf lake iris
____ Eastern prairie fringed orchid
____ Fassett's locoweed
____ Geocarpon
____ Houghton's goldenrod
____ Lakeside daisy
____ Leafy prairie-clover
____ Leedy's roseroot
____ Mead's milkweed
____ Michigan monkey-flower
____ Minnesota dwarf trout lily
____ Missouri bladderpod
____ Northern wild monkshood
____ Pitcher's thistle
____ Pondberry
____ Prairie bush-clover
____ Price's potato-bean
____ Running buffalo clover
____ Small whorled pogonia
____ Virginia spiraea
____ Western prairie fringed orchid

 

Information about the Endangered Species Act

____ Candidate Species (PDF)

____ Consultations with Federal Agencies Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (PDF)

____ Critical Habitat (PDF)

____ Endangered Species Act of 1973 (as amended)

____ ESA Basics (PDF)

____ Grants: Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act (PDF)

____ HCP Overview (PDF)

____ Habitat Conservation Plans and the Incidental Take Permitting Process (PDF)

____ Habitat Conservation Plans: The Quiet Revolution (booklet)
____ A History of the ESA

____ Listing a Species as Threatened or Endangered, Section 4 of The Endangered Species Act (PDF)

____ Permits for Native Species (PDF)

____ Permits as a Conservation Tool: Leaving a Lasting Legacy

____ Petition process (PDF)

____ Recovery, Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)

____ Why Save Endangered Species (pamphlet) (PDF)


Landowners

____ Working Together: Tools for Helping Imperiled Wildlife on Private Lands (PDF, 23-page booklet), tools for private landowners to work with the Service and other partners are featured in this publication.

____ Safe Harbor Agreements for Private Property Owners, Questions and Answers (PDF)

____ Our Endangered Species Program and How It Works with Landowners (PDF)

 

Other Information

____ Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants (worldwide list of endangered and threatened species)
____ Endangered, Threatened, and Proposed Species of Region 3 (list)
____ Candidate Species in Region 3 (list)
____ Extinct Wildlife (list)

 

Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in

____ Illinois
____ Iowa
____ Indiana
____ Michigan
____ Minnesota
____ Missouri
____ Ohio
____ Wisconsin

 

Especially for Kids

____ What You Can Do to Help Endangered Wildlife and Plants (PDF)

 

Posters

Available upon written request - limit your request to 3 posters, please

____ Discover Freshwater Mussels

____ National Wolf Poster: 2008

____ Endangered Species Poster - What's Weird, Wonderful and Needs Help?

____ Partnerships for Endangered Species

 

Miscellaneous

____ Conserving the Nature of America (pamphlet about the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
____ Volunteers: Helping Us Help Wildife (pamphlet)
____ Careers (pamphlet)

____ Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Midwest
____ Live and Let Live: People and the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
____ Homeowner’s Guide to Protecting Frogs: Lawn and Garden Care

 

Audio visual materials are available from the Resource Center at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Endangered Species audio visual materials include a gray wolf education trunk, Suitcase for Survival, films, videos, and more.

 

Write for your free catalog:

Resource Center - Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

3815 East 80th Street

Bloomington, Minnesota 55425-1600.

 

or go online to http://midwest.fws.gov/MinnesotaValley/resource_center.html

 

 

List of publications on the National Endangered Species website.

 

 

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Send your request to the address below

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Endangered Species Division
1 Federal Drive
Fort Snelling, MN 55111

 

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Last updated: September 21, 2009