ML070170252

VYNPS - SEIS Web Reference - Usfws Endangered Species State and County Listings

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Site:	Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date:	01/17/2007
From:	US Dept of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Endangered Species Page 1 of 3 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.

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 Swamp Pink additional questions.

Geographic Area Office Address Telephone Number Maine U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 207-827-5938 1168 Main Street Old Town, ME 04468 Rest of New England States ( New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 603-223-2541 Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 70 Commercial Street, Suite 300 Rhode Island, Connecticut) Concord, NH 03301-5087 New Jersey U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 609-646-9310 927 N. Main Street, Building D Pleasantville, NJ 08232-1454 New York U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 607-753-9334 Swamp Pink 3817 Luker Road http://www.fws.gov/northeast/endangered/bottomfr.html 1/2/2007

Endangered Species Page 2 of 3 Swamp Pink Cortland, NY 13045 Pennsylvania U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 814-234-4090 315 South Allen Street, Suite 322 State College, PA 16801-4850 Maryland, Delaware, District of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 410-573-4500 Columbia 177 Admiral Cochrane Drive Annapolis, MD 21401 Virginia U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 804-693-6694 6669 Short Lane red-cockaded woodpecker. Gloucester, VA 23061 West Virginia U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 304-636-6586 Route 250 South, Elkins Shopping Plaza 694 Beverly Pike Elkins, WV 26241 z West Virginia northern flying squirrel Karner blue butterfly on wild blue lupine Proposed Delisting Rule Peer Review Plan (pdf)

Proposed Delisting Rule (pdf) z See more on the American eel and other possible threatened or endangered species, follow these links:

Butterfly habitat at the Saratoga { American eel (Anguilla rostrata)

County Airport in New York. { Red knot (Calidris canutus rufa)

{ Furbish lousewort (Pedicularis furbishiae)

{ Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)

{ New England cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus transitionalis)

{ Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)

{ Virginia round-leaf birch (Betula uber) http://www.fws.gov/northeast/endangered/bottomfr.html 1/2/2007

Endangered Species Page 3 of 3 Questions, Comments?

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

(Photo credit: USFWS/Mike Pinder) http://www.fws.gov/northeast/endangered/bottomfr.html 1/2/2007