California Native Plant Removed from Endangered Species List
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today removed the Truckee barberry, a California native plant, from the Federal list of threatened and endangered species. The plant is a small evergreen shrub found only in a 280-yard reach of privately-owned floodplain along the Truckee River within the town of Truckee in Nevada County.
The Service is taking this action because recent work by plant taxonomists indicates that this species is not distinct from a common variety of barberry that ranges from the mountains of Southern California north to British Columbia and Alberta and east to the Great Plains
