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Sequoia National Forest Species of Conservation Concern, June, 2019 Sequoia National Forest Species of Conservation Concern, June, 2019 List of species of conservation concern for the Sequoia National Forest for the Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Revision of the Sequoia and Sierra National Forests Land Management Plans. Information is provided by species type, common name and scientific name, June, 2019* Type Common Name (Scientific name) Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) Great gray owl (Strix nebulosa) Kern red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus aciculatus) Birds Mount Pinos Sooty grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus howardi) Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis atricapillus) Tricolored blackbird (Agelaius tricolor) Willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii brewsteri and E.t. adastus) Fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) Mammals Sierra Marten (Martes caurina sierra) Townsend's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) Fairview slender salamander (Batrachoseps bramei) Foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) Kern Canyon slender salamander (Batrachoseps simatus) Amphibians Kern Plateau salamander (Batrachoseps robustus) Relictual slender salamander (Batrachoseps relictus) Yellow-blotched salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzii croceator) California golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita) Central Valley hitch (Lavinia exilicauda exilicauda) Fish Hardhead (Mylopharodon conocephalus) Kern River rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti) Behr's metalmark (Apodemia virgulti davenporti) Terrestrial Evius blue (Plebejus icarioides evius) Invertebrates Greenish blue (Plebejus saepiolus aehaja) Tehachapi fritillary (Speyeria egleis tehachapina) Aquatic Invertebrates Western pearlshell (Margaritifera falcata) 1 Type Common Name (Scientific name) Walker Pass milk-vetch (Astragalus ertterae) Kern Plateau milk-vetch (Astragalus lentiginosus var. kernensis) Little Kern or Shevock's milk-vetch (Astragalus shevockii) Kern County milk-vetch (Astragalus subvestitus) Hidden rockcress (Boechera evadens) )Tulare rockcress (Boechera tularensis) Scalloped moonwort (Botrychium crenulatum) Alkali mariposa lily (Calochortus striatus) Shirley Meadows star-tulip, mariposa lily (Calochortus westonii) Pygmy pussypaws (Calyptridium pygmaeum) Kern River evening primrose (Camissonia integrifolia) Muir's tarplant (Carlquistia muirii) Kern Plateau bird's-beak (Cordylanthus eremicus ssp. kernensis) Mojave tarplant (Deinandra mohavensis) Rose-flowered Larkspur (Delphinium purpusii) Sierra bleeding heart, Tulare County bleeding heart (Dicentra nevadensis) Calico monkeyflower (Diplacus pictus (Mimulus pictus)) Tracy's eriastrum (Eriastrum tracyi) Hall's daisy, Hall's fleabane (Erigeron aequifolius) Kern River daisy (Erigeron multiceps) Breedlove's buckwheat, Piute buckwheat (Eriogonum breedlovei var. breedlovei) Plants Monarch buckwheat (Eriogonum ovalifolium var. monarchense) Greenhorn fritillary (Fritillaria brandegeei) Boyden Cave gilia (Gilia yorkii) Tube flower bluecup (Githopsis tenella) Blandow's bog moss (Helodium blandowii) Piute cypress (Hesperocyparis nevadensis) Monarch golden aster (Heterotheca monarchensis) Shevock's golden aster (Heterotheca shevockii) Kern Plateau horkelia (Horkelia tularensis) Short-leaved hulsea (Hulsea brevifolia) Field ivesia (Ivesia campestris) Yosemite lewisia (Lewisia disepala) Meesia moss (Meesia uliginosa) Shevock’s copper moss (Mielichhoferia shevockii) Baja navarretia (Navarretia peninsularis) Chimney Creek nemacladus (Nemacladus calcaratus) Twisselmann's nemacladus (Nemacladus twisselmannii) Purple mountain-parsley (Oreonana purpurascens) Woolly mountain-parsley (Oreonana vestita) Spjut's bristle moss (Orthotrichum spjutii) Charlotte's phacelia (Phacelia nashiana) Nine Mile Canyon phacelia (Phacelia novenmillensis) Cut-leaf checkerbloom (Sidalcea multifida) 2 Type Common Name (Scientific name) Piute Mountains jewel-flower (Streptanthus cordatus var. piutensis) Tehipite Valley jewel-flower (Streptanthus fenestratus) San Bernardino aster (Symphyotrichum defoliatum) Dedecker's clover (Trifolium kingii ssp. dedeckerae (T. dedeckerae)) Oval-leaved viburnum (Viburnum ellipticum) *This list does not include species that occur outside the plan area, i.e., those in the Giant Sequoia National Monument area but not in the plan area. 3 .
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