Endangered Species

From the lynx of the northern Maine forests to the Lee County cave isopod in southwestern Virginia, each of the Northeast Region's endangered and threatened species is unique, and each poses different conservation challenges. Invasive species and advancing ecological succession plague bog turtles and Karner blue butterflies; beach-nesting piping plovers must avoid both predators and bathers to survive; eagles face continuing habitat loss; and swamp pinks suffer from changes in hydrology.
     The biologists of the Northeast Region Endangered Species Division work with many partners to protect and conserve listed and candidate species. We have cooperative management agreements with all 13 states in our region, and they carry out a large share of the recovery work. Private conservation groups also play a major role, particularly in providing permanent habitat protection for many listed species.
     The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works very closely with other federal agencies in the cause of endangered species conservation. The U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service and others have active management programs for many land holdings. Species ranging from Robbins cinquefoil to Cheat Mountain salamander to Michaux sumac all benefit from site protection.
     Finally, private landowners play a significant role in this region because the federal land base is limited in size. Lynx and red-cockaded woodpeckers are two species that are benefiting from certain timber management regimes on private lands.

Geographic Area	Office Address	Telephone Number
Project Review Requests Field offices within the region review proposed projects for potential impacts to federally listed endangered and threatened species. Requests should be submitted in writing and should also include a map that identifies the proposed project location (and indicates the U.S. Geological Survey topographic map by name). Please send your requests to the following offices, or contact those offices by telephone if you have additional questions.
Maine	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1168 Main Street Old Town, ME 04468	207-827-5938
Rest of New England States ( New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut)	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 70 Commercial Street, Suite 300 Concord, NH 03301-5087	603-223-2541
New Jersey	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 927 N. Main Street, Building D Pleasantville, NJ 08232-1454	609-646-9310
New York	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3817 Luker Road Cortland, NY 13045	607-753-9334
Pennsylvania	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 315 South Allen Street, Suite 322 State College, PA 16801-4850	814-234-4090
Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 177 Admiral Cochrane Drive Annapolis, MD 21401	410-573-4500
Virginia	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 6669 Short Lane Gloucester, VA 23061	804-693-6694
West Virginia	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Route 250 South, Elkins Shopping Plaza 694 Beverly Pike Elkins, WV 26241	304-636-6586

Expanded Atlantic Salmon Protection Proposed

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA-Fisheries are proposing to expand Endangered Species Act protection for wild Atlantic salmon in Maine as far as the Androscoggin River, including the entire Kennebec and Penobscot rivers. This year, from the Androscoggin north to the Dennys River, the area proposed for protection, only 2,000 salmon have returned to spawn.

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Butterfly habitat at the Saratoga County Airport in New York.

Appalachian monkeyface (Quadrula sparsa), rough rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata) and shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor).

(Photo credit: Mike Pinder/Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries)

Red Cockaded Woodpecker red-cockaded woodpecker.

Swamp Pink

Karner blue butterfly on wild blue lupine

Swamp Pink

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