Spurred by a legal settlement with two environmental groups, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has been cranking out the 90-day and 12-month findings. We had been bypassing the individual announcements as being of interest only to small groups of people, but as a whole, they do warrant your attention.
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Sept. 26. Maybe to 374 aquatic species
Oct. 3. Yes to eight freshwater mussels in south Alabama and northwest Florida (endangered and threatened)
Oct. 4. No to Oklahoma grass pink.
Oct. 5. No to northern leopard frog
Oct. 5. Yes to Ozark hellbender.
Oct. 6. No to 11 aquatic species
Oct. 7. No to California golden trout
Oct. 11. No to three Arizona plants: the Santa Rita yellowshow, Huachuca milk-vetch, and Fish Creek fleabane
Oct. 12. “Sort of” to north Oregon coast population of red tree voles. (“Warranted but precluded” aka candidate species)
Photo: California golden trout, by Kevin Aceituno, USFWS