Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species of Oregon
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RARE, THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES OF OREGON OREGON NATURAL HERITAGE INFORMATION CENTER May 2004 Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center Institute for Natural Resources Oregon State University 1322 SE Morrison Street Portland, OR 97214-2531 (503) 731-3070 http://oregonstate.edu/ornhic/ With assistance from: Native Plant Society of Oregon The Nature Conservancy Oregon Department of Agriculture Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Oregon Department of State Lands Oregon Natural Heritage Advisory Council U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Forest Service Bureau of Land Management Compiled and Published by the staff of the Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center: Jimmy Kagan, Director/Ecologist Eric Scheuering, Zoology Data Manager Sue Vrilakas, Botany Data Manager John Christy, Wetlands Ecologist, Bryologist Eleanor Gaines, Zoologist Jon Hak, GIS Program Manager Cliff Alton, Data Output/IS Manager Claudine Tobalske, GIS Analyst Fern McArthur, Botany Data Handler Annie Weiland, Zoology Data Assistant Kuuipo Walsh, GIS Analyst Theresa Koloszar, Office Manager/Grants Specialist Cover Illustration: Pink sand-verbena (Abronia umbellata ssp. breviflora) by Diane Bland. Bibliographic reference to this publication should read: Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center. 2004. Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species of Oregon. Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, Oregon State University, Portland, Oregon. 105 pp. CONTENTS Introduction............................................................................................................................................................1 Distribution Information ........................................................................................................................................2 Oregon Map with Ecoregions and Counties ..........................................................................................................3 Definitions..............................................................................................................................................................4 Special Animals .....................................................................................................................................................5 Summary List......................................................................................................................................................8 Fish...................................................................................................................................................................8 Amphibians....................................................................................................................................................11 Reptiles .......................................................................................................................................................... 12 Birds............................................................................................................................................................... 13 Mammals........................................................................................................................................................17 Invertebrates...................................................................................................................................................20 Animals Arranged by Status .............................................................................................................................30 Federal Listed and Candidate Animal Species............................................................................................... 30 Federal Animal Species of Concern............................................................................................................... 31 State Listed Animal Species ..........................................................................................................................32 ODFW Sensitive Animal Species List...........................................................................................................32 ORNHIC List 1 ..............................................................................................................................................34 ORNHIC List 2 ..............................................................................................................................................35 ORNHIC List 3 ..............................................................................................................................................36 ORNHIC List 4 ..............................................................................................................................................37 Drops and Name Changes..............................................................................................................................38 Special Plants.......................................................................................................................................................39 Summary List.................................................................................................................................................... 43 Vascular Plants............................................................................................................................................... 43 Liverworts ......................................................................................................................................................75 Mosses............................................................................................................................................................76 Lichens...........................................................................................................................................................80 Fungi ..............................................................................................................................................................83 Plants Arranged by Status .................................................................................................................................93 USFWS Federally Listed, Proposed Taxa and Species of Concern ..............................................................93 ODA State Listed, Proposed and Candidate Taxa ........................................................................................94 ORNHIC List 1 ..............................................................................................................................................95 ORNHIC List 2 ..............................................................................................................................................96 ORNHIC List 3 ..............................................................................................................................................98 ORNHIC List 4 ............................................................................................................................................100 Drops and Name Changes............................................................................................................................101 Plant Field Survey Form ....................................................................................................................................102 Animal Field Survey Form ................................................................................................................................103 Acknowledgments..............................................................................................................................................104 Abbreviations.....................................................................................................................................................105 INTRODUCTION Extinction is a natural process. Today, however, endangered species programs can be found at the plant and animal species are disappearing world-wide beginning of the animal and plant sections of this at an accelerated pace. Based on current trends, half booklet. of the species on earth will be extinct within the next Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center 100 years. The major cause of this phenomenon is The Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center large-scale destruction of native habitats, which has (ORNHIC) is part of the Information Program of the increased since European settlement began in the mid Institute for Natural Resources of Oregon State 1800's - in Oregon and throughout the New World. University (OSU). ORNHIC maintains Once lost, a species can never be recovered, and comprehensive databases for Oregon biodiversity, there is no way of knowing how useful it may have concentrating on the rare and endangered plants, been. We do know that human beings and many of animals and ecosystems. The program is managed by their industries depend on plant and animal products. OSU, but has been a cooperative project, with About 50% of all pharmaceuticals have a natural significant support from The Department of State component as an active ingredient, yet less than one Lands, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon, USFWS, percent of the world's species have been chemically the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the U.S. analyzed and tested. Many invertebrates and plants Forest Service (USFS), and the Oregon Watershed contain undescribed and highly functional compounds. Enhancement Board. Biologists working