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.
Your Name:
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Address:
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Telephone:
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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
