Endangered species list.

1. Endangered Species Settlement Agreement: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Obligations in FY 2011 [Updated: September 26, 2011]
On May 10, 2011, WildEarth Guardians entered into a sweeping settlement agreement
with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that resolved years of litigation and should accelerate species
listings under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Under the agreement, the Service will address ESA
listing for 252 candidate species by September 2016. The agency will also prepare petition findings,
listing determinations, and other rules for more than 600 additional species. Altogether, nearly 900
species are covered by the agreement.
Judge Emmet Sullivan (Washington, D.C. District Court) approved the settlement agreement on
September 9, 2011. The Service consented to take action on a significant number of species by the end
of fiscal year 2011 in the agreement (September 30, 2011). The agency is obligated to:
Publish final listing rules (with or without proposed/revised/final critical habitat designation) for
14 species. Actions taken to date: 12 species.
Publish proposed listing rules (with or without proposed/revised critical habitat designation) or
““not warranted”” listing determinations for 40 species. Actions taken to date: 30 species.
Publish 12 month listing determinations for 56 species. Actions taken to date: 39 species.
Publish 90 day petition findings for 516 species. Actions taken to date: 458 species.
Publish proposed/revised/final critical habitat designation or other actions for 105 species.
Actions taken to date: 102 species.
FY 2011 Final Listing Rules (Proposed/Final Critical Habitat Designation)
FWS
Regional Species Required Action Action Taken?
Office
Final listing rule,
final rule for
3 Ozark hellbender
protection under
CITES, app. III
Final listing rule and
4 Altamaha spinymussel final critical habitat
designation.
3 species listed as
Final listing rule and
Georgia pigtoe, interrupted rocksnail, rough ““endangered”” with
4 final critical habitat
hornsnail critical habitat
designation.
11/02/11
5 Southeast fishes (Cumberland Darter, Rush Final listing rule and 5 species listed as
4 Darter, Yellowcheek Darter, Chucky proposed critical ““endangered””
Madtom, and Laurel Dace) habitat designation. 08/09/11
Listed as ““threatened””
(DeBeque phacelia,
Final listing rule and
3 Colorado plants (DeBeque phacelia, Parachute penstemon)
6 proposed critical
Parachute penstemon, Pagosa skyrocket) and ““endangered””
habitat designation.
(Pagosa skyrocket) with
proposed critical habitat

2. 07/27/11
Final listing rule and Listed as ““endangered””
8 Casey’’s June Beetle final critical habitat with critical habitat
designation. 09/02/11
Species Addressed (to date) 12
FY 2011 Proposed Listing Rules (Proposed/Revised Critical Habitat Designation) or ““Not Warranted””
Listing Determinations
FWS
Regional Species Required Action Action Taken?
Office
Proposed listing, proposed
4 Llanero coqui critical habitat designation or
““not warranted”” determination.
Proposed listing or ““not
2 Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl1
warranted”” determination.
2 species proposed
““endangered””
Proposed listing or ““not
3 Sheepnose, spectaclecase 01/19/11
warranted”” determination.
(critical habitat not
determinable)
Dunes sagebrush lizard (aka Sand Proposed listing or ““not Proposed ““endangered””
2
dune lizard) warranted”” determination. 12/14/10
2 species proposed
Proposed listing or ““not
3 Rayed bean, snuffbox ““endangered””
warranted”” determination.
11/02/10
2 species proposed
2 Arizona springsnails Proposed listing, proposed
““endangered”” with
2 (Pyrgulopsis bernardina, P. critical habitat designation or
critical habitat
trivialis ) ““not warranted”” determination.
04/12/11
8 Gulf Coast mussels (round
ebonyshell, southern kidneyshell,
Proposed listing, proposed
narrow pigtoe, southern
4 critical habitat designation or
sandshell, fuzzy pigtoe, Choctaw
““not warranted”” determination.
bean, tapered pigtoe, Alabama
pearlshell)
23 species proposed
Proposed listing, proposed
““endangered”” with
1 23 Oahu species critical habitat designation or
critical habitat
““not warranted”” determination.
08/02/11
Species Addressed (to date) 30
1
The Fish and Wildlife Service consented in a separate settlement agreement with the Center for Biological
Diversity to publish a propose listing rule or ““not warranted”” listing determination for the cactus ferruginous
pygmy owl. WildEarth Guardians agreement only required a 12 month listing determination for the owl, in which
case the agency could have found the species ““warranted, but precluded”” for listing under the ESA.

3. FY 2011 12 Month Listing Determinations
FWS ““Warranted, ““Not
““Warranted””
Regional Species but Precluded”” Warranted””
Office for Listing
for Listing for Listing
7 yellow faced bees (Hylaeus anthracinus, H.
09/06/11
1 assimulans, H. facilis, H. hilaris, H. kuakea, H.
(7 species)
longiceps, H. mana)
1 Black footed albatross
1 Dusky tree vole
1 Giant palouse earthworm 07/26/11
Kokanee salmon (Lake Sammamish
1
population)
08/09/11
2 2 Texas shiners (Cyprinella sp., C. lepida)
(2 species)
3 Southern Arizona plants (Erigeron
2 piscaticus, Astragalus hypoxylus, Amoreuxia
gonzalezii)
3 Texas moths (Ursia furtiva, Sphingicampa 09/27/11
2
blanchardi, Agapema galbina) (3 species)
5 Central Texas mussels (Texas fatmucket,
2 golden orb, smooth pimpleback, Texas
pimpleback, Texas fawnsfoot)
2 Anacroneuria wipukupa (stonefly) 08/02/11
2 Grand Canyon cave pseudoscorpion 07/19/11
2 Northern leopard frog
3 Frigid ambersnail 07/26/11
Oklahoma grass pink (Calopogon
3
oklahomensis)
4 Berry Cave salamander 03/22/11
4 Gopher tortoise 07/27/11
4 Ozark chinquapin 06/28/11
4 Puerto Rico harlequin butterfly 05/31/11
4 Striped newt 06/07/11
2 Colorado plants (Astragalus microcymbus, 12/15/10
6
A. schmolliae) (2 species)
6 Byrne Resort Mountainsnail 04/05/11
6 Bearmouth Mountainsnail 04/05/11
6 Meltwater Lednian Stonefly 04/05/11
6 Astragalus hamiltonii 02/23/11
6 Eriogonum soredium 02/23/11
6 Lepidium ostleri 02/23/11
6 Penstemon flowersii 02/23/11
6 Trifolium friscanum 02/23/11
Yellowstone sand verbena (Abronia
6 06/09/11
ammophila)
6 Agrostis rossia 06/09/11
6 Astragalus proimanthus 06/09/11

4. Fremont County rockcress (Boechere Arabis
6 06/09/11
pusilla)
6 Penstemon gibbensii 06/09/11
6 Fisher (West Coast DPS) 06/30/11
6 Leatherside chub
8 California golden trout
8 Mohave ground squirrel
8 Mojave fringe toed lizard
8 Mount Charleston blue butterfly 03/08/11
8 Tehachapi slender salamander
8 Western gull billed tern 09/21/11
Totals (to date) 0 19 20
FY 2011 90 Day Petition Findings
FWS
Regional Species Positive Negative
Office
2 Idaho snowflies (straight snowfly, Idaho 08/02/11
1
snowfly) (2 species)
1 Franklin's bumble bee 09/13/11
1 Sand verbena moth 02/17/11
2 Prairie chub 04/14/11
2 Spot tailed earless lizard 05/24/11
2 Texas kangaroo rat 03/08/11
3 Golden winged warbler
09/27/11 (positive
findings: 374 species;
4 403 Southeastern species already candidates or
subject to proposed
listing rules: 18 species)
4 Bay skipper butterfly 07/12/11
4 Bay Springs salamander 11/02/10
4 Smooth billed ani
4 Southeast snowy plover 09/08/11
4 Spring Pygmy sunfish 04/01/11
4 Piping plover (wintering population) 09/08/11
5 American eel
Eastern small footed bat, Northern
5
long eared bat
6 Arapahoe snowfly 04/26/11
6 Gila Monster (Utah population) 06/21/11
6 Wild plains bison 02/24/11
7 Red knot (subspecies roselaari) 01/04/11
10 Great Basin butterflies (Baking Powder
Flat blue butterfly, Mono Basin skipper,
8 bleached sandhill skipper, Railroad Valley
skipper, Carson Valley silverspot, Railroad
Valley skipper, Carson Valley wood nymph,

5. Steptoe Valley crescentspot, Mattoni’’s blue
butterfly, White River Valley skipper)
8 32 species of Pacific Northwest mollusks
08/18/09 (3 species), 09/13/11 (7 species)
8 42 species of Great Basin springsnails
09/13/11 (32 species)
08/04/11 (4) Crescent 08/04/11 (2) Sand
6 Nevada dune beetles (Hardy’’s aegialian
Dunes aegialian scarab, Mountain serican
scarab, Sand Mountain serican scarab,
Crescent Dunes serican scarab, Hardy’’s
8 Crescent Dunes aegialian scarab, Crescent
scarab, Giuliani's dune, aegialian
Dunes serican scarab, large aegialian scarab,
large aegialian scarab,
Giuliani’’s dune scarab)
scarab
8 Leona's little blue butterfly
Spring Mountains acastus checkerspot
8 04/13/11
butterfly
8 Unsilvered fritillary butterfly 02/24/11
422
(plus 18 species that are
Totals (to date) already candidates or 18
subject to proposed
listing rules)
FY 2011 Findings on Petitions for Critical Habitat Designation, Proposed/Revised Critical Habitat
Designations and Other Actions
FWS
Regional Species Required Action Action Taken?
Office
Revised critical habitat for
Revised critical habitat
1 99 Hawaiian plants 99 species
designation.
08/02/11
Proposed critical habitat
Proposed critical habitat
1 Slickspot peppergrass designated
designation.
05/10/11
Revised final critical
1 Marbled murrelet
habitat designation.
90 day finding on petition Positive 90 day finding
4 Leatherback turtle
to revise critical habitat. 08/04/11
90 finding on petition to
Negative finding
6 Utah prairie dog uplist from ““threatened””
06/21/11
to ““endangered.””
8 Vernal pools CH (Vernal pool fairy
90 day finding on petition
shrimp and vernal pool tadpole
to revise critical habitat.
shrimp)
Species Addressed (to date) 102