North Carolina Endangered and Threatened Species

Publications on Threatened and Endangered Species

The following documents are provided by the Raleigh Field Office's Endangered Species Program, with the permission of our partners and the publishers. Complete references and/or abstracts are available here; please contact the office directly for reprints or copies of reports.

Published Articles

Chittick, B., M. Stoskopf, N. Heil, J. Levine, M. Law. 2001. Evaluation of sandbar shiner as a surrogate for assessing health risks to the endangered Cape Fear shiner. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 13:86-95. (75KB)

Gold, J.R., E. Saillant, C.P. Burridge, A. Blanchard, and J.C. Patton. 2004. Population structure and effective size in critically endangered Cape Fear shiners Notropis mekistocholas. Southeastern Naturalist 3(1):89-102. (78KB)

Hewitt, A.H., W.G. Cope, T.J. Kwak, T. Augspurger, P.R. Lazaro, and D. Shea. 2006. Influence of water quality and associated contaminants on survival and growth of the endangered Cape Fear shiner (Notropis mekistocholas). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 25:2288–2298.

Holliman, F.M., J.B. Reynolds, and T.J. Kwak. 2003. A predictive risk model for electroshock-induced mortality of the endangered Cape Fear shiner. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:905-912. (58KB)

Howard, A.K. 2003. Influence of instream physical habitat and water quality on the survival and occurrence of the endangered Cape Fear shiner. M.S. Thesis, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 133pp. (953KB)

McLellan, S.R, and D.R. Rabon, Jr. 2006. Translocating red wolves using a modified soft-release technique. Canid News 9.1

Rabon, D. R., Jr., S. A. Johnson, R. Boettcher, M. Dodd, M. Lyons, S. Murphy, S. Ramsey, S. Roff and K. Stewart. 2003. Confirmed leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) nests from North Carolina, with a summary of leatherback nesting activities north of Florida, USA. Marine Turtle Newsletter 101:4-8 (287KB)

Snelson, F.F., Jr. 1971. Notropis mekistocholas, a new herbivorous cyprinid fish endemic to the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina. Copeia 1971:449-462. (1.2MB)

Proceedings

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Wintering Ecology and Conservation of Piping Plovers

Technical Reports

No technical reports are available at this time.

Guidance

Service Interim Guidelines For Recommendations On Communications Tower Siting, Construction, Operation, and Decommissioning (41KB)

Guidelines for avoiding impacts to the West Indian Manatee: Precautionary measures for construction activities in North Carolina Waters (116KB)

How you can help protect Sea Turtles (980KB)

Optimal survey windows for North Carolina's threatened and endangered plant species

Fact Sheets

Cape Fear shiner Fact Sheet 1

Cape Fear shiner Fact Sheet 2

Recovery Plans

Recovery Plans for most species can be found on the Service's Threatened and Endangered Species System (TESS) website. Recovery plans for threatened and endangered species found in North Carolina but not included on the Service's TESS website can be found below in pdf format.

Cape Fear Shiner (1.1MB)

For additional information regarding endangered species, please visit the Service's Endangered Species Program website.

Do you need additional help? Questions related to the Service's endangered species program or other program activities can be addressed to the appropriate staff from our Asheville or Raleigh Field Offices.