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Endangered and Protected Species LISTED SPECIES IN APPLING COUNTY FEDERAL ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES1 Animals Bald eagle (T,SE) Haliaeetus leucocephalus Inland waterways and estuarine areas in Georgia Wood stork (E,SE) Mycteria americana Primarily feed in fresh and brackish wetlands and nest in cypress or other wooded swamps Red-cockaded woodpecker (E,SE) Picoides borealis Nest in mature pine with low understory vegetation (<1.5m); forage in pine and pine hardwood stands >30 years of age, preferably >10" dbh Eastern indigo snake (T,ST) Drymarchon corais couperi During winter, den in xeric sandridge habitat preferred by gopher tortoises; during warm months, forage in creek bottoms, upland forests, and agricultural fields Shortnose sturgeon (E,SE) Acipenser brevirostrum Atlantic seaboard rivers SPECIES OF MANAGEMENT CONCERN1: The Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating population trends and threats to the following Species of Management Concern. Please contact us at 247 S. Milledge Ave., Athens, GA, 706-613-9493, if you locate these species during site surveys or have other information on the species' distributions in Georgia. Animals Bachman’s sparrow (SR) Aimophila aestivalis Abandoned fields with scattered shrubs, pines, or oaks Gopher tortoise (ST) Gopherus polyphemus Well drained, sandy soils in forest and grassy areas; associated with pine overstory, open understory with grass and forb groundcover, and sunny areas for nesting Florida gopher frog Rana areolata aesopus Gopher tortoise or crawfish burrows Carolina gopher frog Rana areolata capito Altamaha spinymussel Elliptio spinosa Plants Dissected beardtongue (SR) Penstemon dissectus Dry, open, mixed oak-longleaf pine forests or on thin soils near rock outcrops of the Altamaha Formation (Altamaha Grit) STATE OF GEORGIA ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES1: The following species, as well as the Species of Management Concern marked above (SE, ST, SR), are protected by the State. For information on State listed species, contact the GA Department of Natural Resources, GA Natural Heritage Program, 2117 US HWY 278 SE, Social Circle, GA 30279 (706-557-3032). Plants Velvet sedge (SR) Carex dasycarpa Sandy acid woods of floodplain hammocks and streambanks; also on barrier islands in mature long leaf pine forests Silky morning-glory (SE) Evolvulus sericeus var. sericeus Sparsely vegetated, partially shaded outcrops of Altamaha Grit (a course, gritty, sandstone-like hardened clay) Parrot pitcher-plant (ST) Sarracenia psittacina Acid soils of open bogs, wet savannahs, and low areas in pine flatwoods 1 Key to notations E = endangered, T = threatened, and R = rare. The SE, ST, and SR indicate species also listed by the State of Georgia as endangered, threatened, and rare, respectively. Updated May 2000 LISTED SPECIES IN ATKINSON COUNTY FEDERAL ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES1 Animals Bald eagle (T,SE) Haliaeetus leucocephalus Inland waterways and estuarine areas in Georgia Wood stork (E,SE) Mycteria americana Primarily feed in fresh and brackish wetlands and nest in cypress or other wooded swamps Red-cockaded woodpecker (E,SE) Picoides borealis Nest in mature pine with low understory vegetation (<1.5m); forage in pine and pine hardwood stands >30 years of age, preferably >10" dbh Eastern indigo snake (T,ST) Drymarchon corais couperi During winter, den in xeric sandridge habitat preferred by gopher tortoises; during warm months, forage in creek bottoms, upland forests, and agricultural fields SPECIES OF MANAGEMENT CONCERN1: The Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating population trends and threats to the following Species of Management Concern. Please contact us at 247 S. Milledge Ave., Athens, GA, 706-613-9493, if you locate these species during site surveys or have other information on the species' distributions in Georgia. Animals Gopher tortoise (ST) Gopherus polyphemus Well drained, sandy soils in forest and grassy areas; associated with pine overstory, open understory with grass and forb groundcover, and sunny areas for nesting Florida gopher frog Rana areolata aesopus Gopher tortoise or crawfish burrows Carolina gopher frog Rana areolata capito 1 Key to notations: E = endangered, T = threatened, and R = rare. The SE, ST, and SR indicate species also listed by the State of Georgia as endangered, threatened, and rare, respectively. For information on State listed species, contact the GA Department of Natural Resources, GA Natural Heritage Program, 2117 US HWY 278 SE, Social Circle, GA 30279 (706-557-3032). Updated May 2000 LISTED SPECIES IN BACON COUNTY FEDERAL ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES1 Animals Bald eagle (T,SE) Haliaeetus leucocephalus Inland waterways and estuarine areas in Georgia Wood stork (E,SE) Mycteria americana Primarily feed in fresh and brackish wetlands and nest in cypress or other wooded swamps Red-cockaded woodpecker (E,SE) Picoides borealis Nest in mature pine with low understory vegetation (<1.5m); forage in pine and pine hardwood stands >30 years of age, preferably >10" dbh Eastern indigo snake (T,ST) Drymarchon corais couperi During winter, den in xeric sandridge habitat preferred by gopher tortoises; during warm months, forage in creek bottoms, upland forests, and agricultural fields SPECIES OF MANAGEMENT CONCERN1: The Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating population trends and threats to the following Species of Management Concern. Please contact us at 247 S. Milledge Ave., Athens, GA, 706-613-9493, if you locate these species during site surveys or have other information on the species' distributions in Georgia. Animals Gopher tortoise (ST) Gopherus polyphemus Well drained, sandy soils in forest and grassy areas; associated with pine overstory, open understory with grass and forb groundcover, and sunny areas for nesting Florida gopher frog Rana areolata aesopus Gopher tortoise or crawfish burrows Carolina gopher frog Rana areolata capito STATE OF GEORGIA ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES1: The following species, as well as the Species of Management Concern marked above (SE, ST, SR), are protected by the State. For information on State listed species, contact the GA Department of Natural Resources, GA Natural Heritage Program, 2117 US HWY 278 SE, Social Circle, GA 30279 (706-557-3032). Plants Parrot pitcher-plant (ST) Sarracenia psittacina Acid soils of open bogs, wet savannahs, and low areas in pine flatwoods 1 Key to notations: E = endangered, T = threatened, and R = rare. The SE, ST, and SR indicate species also listed by the State of Georgia as endangered, threatened, and rare, respectively. Updated May 2000 LISTED SPECIES IN BAKER COUNTY FEDERAL ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES1 Animals Bald eagle (T,SE) Haliaeetus leucocephalus Inland waterways and estuarine areas throughout Georgia. Active eagle nests were located in Baker County 1989, 1991, 1993-1994 and 1996-1999. Wood stork (E,SE) Mycteria americana Primarily feed in fresh and brackish wetlands and nest in cypress or other wooded swamps Red-cockaded woodpecker (E,SE) Picoides borealis Nest in mature pine with low understory vegetation (<1.5m); forage in pine and pine hardwood stands >30 years of age, preferably >10" dbh Eastern indigo snake (T,ST) Drymarchon corais couperi During winter, den in xeric sandridge habitat preferred by gopher tortoises; during warm months, forage in creek bottoms, upland forests, and agricultural fields Flatwoods salamander (T,SR) Ambystoma cingulatum Adults and subadults are fossorial; found in open mesic pine/wiregrass flatwoods dominated by longleaf or slash pine and maintained by frequent fire. During breeding period, which coincides with heavy rains from Oct.-Dec., move to isolated, shallow, small, depressions (forested with emergent vegetation) that dry completely on a cyclic basis. Active breeding sites found in Baker County since 1990. Fat three-ridge mussel (E,SE) Amblema neislerii Main channels of small to large rivers with slow to moderate currents, in substrates ranging from gravel to a rocky rubble mixture of sand and sandy mud to a mixture of sand, sandy/clay substrates Purple bankclimber mussel (T,ST) Elliptoideus sloatianus Main channels of ACF basin rivers in moderate currents over sand, sand mixed with mud, or gravel substrates Shiny-rayed pocketbook mussel (E,SE) Lampsilis subangulata Medium creeks to the mainstems of rivers with slow to moderate currents over sandy substrates and associated with rock or clay Gulf moccasinshell mussel (E,SE) Medionidus penicillatus Medium streams to large rivers with slight to moderate current over sand and gravel substrates; may be associated with muddy sand substrates around tree roots Oval pigtoe mussel (E,SE) Pleurobema pyriforme River tributaries and main channels in slow to moderate currents over silty sand, muddy sand, sand, and gravel substrates Plants American chaffseed (E,SE) Schwalbea americana Fire-maintained wet savannahs in the Coastal Plain (with grass pinks, colic root, huckleberry and gallberry); grassy openings and swales of relict longleaf pine woods in the Piedmont Pondberry (E,SE) Lindera melissifolia Shallow depression ponds of sandhills, margins of cypress ponds, and in seasonally wet low areas among bottomland hardwoods SPECIES OF MANAGEMENT CONCERN1: The Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating population trends and threats to the following Species of Management Concern. Please contact us at 247 S. Milledge Ave., Athens, GA, 706-613-9493, if you locate these species during site surveys or have other information on the species' distributions in Georgia. Animals Bachman’s sparrow (SR) Aimophila aestivalis
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