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Listing and Recovery Program

 

Photo: Karl Vogel

Photo: USFWS

Photo: USFWS

BACKGROUND

We work to protect and recover imperiled plant and animal species through conservation and listing activities, recovery planning and implementation, and grant programs while promoting the voluntary conservation of other vulnerable wildlife. We also manage the sea otter through conservation activities under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.

WHAT WE DO

	•	Conserve species
	•	Add and remove species from the lists of threatened and endangered species
	•	Designate critical habitat for listed species
	•	Develop, review and update recovery plans and implement recovery tasks
	•	Provide funds to our partners to implement recovery and conservation actions
	•	Coordinate grants to State agencies and their partners
	•	Manage the Marine Mammal Protection Act for sea otters in Washington State
	•	Provide technical assistance to other Fish and Wildlife Service programs, Federal and State agencies, and the public
	•	Issue recovery permits for research and recovery activities, habitat restoration, and management for listed species and species of conservation concern

 

 RECENT PROJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

	•	Generated $141 million in conservation dollars for Washington through National grant programs over the last 10 years, $16.2 million (pdf) in 2010 alone.	Photo: USFWS
	•	Developed a conservation plan (pdf) with the National Park Service to protect and recover the Island Marble butterfly, a recently rediscovered species thought to have been gone from Washington for nearly a century.
	•	Completed 5-year status reviews for the marbled murrelet, golden paintbrush, and are working on one for Columbia white-tailed deer.
	•	Developed a stock assessment report and an incident guidance plan for northern sea otters in Washington waters.
	•	Developed a brochure (pdf) to inform landowners about golden paintbrush, a threatened plant.
	•	Launched a public outreach campaign to find and identify populations of golden paintbrush on private land in north Puget Sound, southwest Washington and the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
	•	Provided funding annually in excess of $1,000,000 for 23 recovery and conservation actions for many listed species and species of conservation concern in Washington State. Actions included habitat restoration projects, outreach, monitoring, and research at both the ecosystem and the species level.
	•	In cooperation with WFWO Fisheries Program, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, initiated a conservation supplementation program for Lake Sammamish late-run kokanee.	Photo: USFWS
	•	As part of an effort to recover the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, around 50 pygmy rabbits from captive-breeding facilities and from the wild in Oregon have been released on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Sagebrush Flat Wildlife Area in Douglas County.
	•	We partnered with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Bureau of Land Management to reintroduce greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) to Lincoln County, Washington. The project was designed to establish a third population in the state in an area with more than 200 km2 of shrub-steppe habitat on public lands. In 2011, an additional 50 birds are planned to be relocated to the site.

  

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