ML18059A113

Fws 2015 - TN5375 - Usfws 2015 Price'S Potato-bean

ML18059A113
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Site:	Clinch River
Issue date:	10/15/2015
From:	US Dept of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service
To:	Office of New Reactors
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USFWS: Price's Potato-bean Endangered Species Midwest Region Price's Potato-bean Search Midwest Endangered Species Home (Apios priceana)

What We Do Potato bean tubers were food Status: Threatened items for both Native Americans Featured Species Habitat: This plant prefers lightly and European pioneers.

Species Information disturbed areas such as forest openings, wood edges and where State and County Lists bluffs descend to streams. It also grows along highway rights-of-Species Lists way and powerline corridors.>

Fact Sheets and Brochures Why It's Threatened: Never a very common species due to its Field Office Contacts exacting habitat requirements, only 13 populations of the plant Regional Office Contacts are known to exist today. These are threatened by cattle which Contact Us graze and trample on the plant.

Timber clearcutting destroys its habitat and herbicides applied to highway rights-of-way kill individual populations of the plant. Almost half the known populations have disappeared in recent years. None are now found within our 8-state region.

Paradoxically, in some areas, lack of forest clearing is threatening the potato-bean. A species that depends on natural disturbance, the potato-bean is, in some places, being eliminated as surrounding forest closes in over the plants. This creates habitat for shade-loving plants that crowd out the potato-bean. Selective cutting at some sites may be necessary, therefore, to save these populations. With 10 of the 13 populations occurring on private lands and none made up of more than 50 plants, the voluntary cooperation of landowners will be necessary to save this species.

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