Based on the availability of new biological information, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service no longer believes that the swift fox should be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. This decision removes it from consideration for listing based on its current status.
In response to a petition to list the swift fox, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife determined in 1995 that a threatened listing was warranted but did not proceed with a listing action because resources necessary to complete the listing process were unavailable.
The warranted but precluded finding prompted state wildlife agencies within the species current and historic range to form the Swift Fox Conservation Team to work cooperatively on swift fox management and conservation. The team, in coordination with other interested parties, assembled existing information, collected new biological data, and implemented swift fox monitoring and management programs.
In an assessment of the species
