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6 Endangered Species Tech. Bull. 1 (1981)

handle is hein.animal/endanspb0006 and id is 1 raw text is: January 1981 Vol. VI, No. 1 H%'H &WflA)LIFi ',FRVi( ~ ENDANGERED SPECIES TECHNICAL BULLETIN Department of the Interior * US Fish and Wildfe Service * Endangered Species Program, Washington, D.C. 20240 Office of Endangered Species Staff Botanists The Service recently provided State and Federal agencies, ecological con- sultants, plant conservationists, bota- nists, and other interested parties a new document which describes the current vulnerability of U.S. plants to extinction. This most recent notice of review for plants was published in the December 15, 1980, Federal Register. The notice names nearly 3,000 plant taxa native to the U.S. which are being considered for listing as Endangered or Threatened species under the amended Endangered Species Act, and indicates their State distributions. It also provides a list of almost 800 plant taxa which were previously being considered for listing under the Act, but are presently pre- sumed either extinct; not good species, subspecies or varieties; or more abun- dant or widespread than previously believed, and/or not subject to iden- tifiable threats. The December notice refines and up- dates three previous notices, and con- stitutes a current national assessment of U.S. plant status. It is based on 14 months of intensive collaboration by Service botanists with plant experts across the country, and reflects over six years of active field work and other research on vulnerable plants. It re- places published national assessments from 1975 and early 1978 and, in some cases, reports new State records of these rare species. NEW DOCUMENT PRESENTS NOTE ABOUT THE STAFF Just a few words to update you on the status of old and new members of the BULLETIN staff. Dona Finnley, who has been our editor for the past three years (June 1977). has left that post to pursue further studies in biology. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dona for the fine work she has done, editing and planning the BULLETIN, and to wish her well with her studies. Although school will oc- cupy most of her time, Dona will con- tribute occasional articles for the BULLETIN. Thanks also to Morey Norkin who, as Acting Editor, has kept the BULLETIN together for the past four months. Morey will continue on with the BULLETIN, assisting Clare Senecal who has assumed, with this issue, the responsibilities of Editor. The new editor welcomes your continued in- terest and comments regarding our of- ficial Program publication. John L. Spinks, Jr. Chief, Office of Endangered Species Greenman's hexalectris, (Hexalectris grandiflora): This orchid occurs in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas and also in Mexico. The Service requests additional data on this category 2 plant. measures, The Smithsonian report, published in January 1975 as House Document No. 94-51, included a list of more than 3,000 native plants thought to be extinct, threatened, or endangered. The Service published a notice on July 1, 1975 (40 FR 27823), announcing that the Smithsonian report had been accepted as a petition under the terms of the Act, and that the plants named in the report were being reviewed for Continued on page 4 Background Initial endangered species legislation provided protection only for vertebrate animals, the special need to focus on the conservation of plants in danger of ex- tinction not being recognized by legal provision until 1973. The 1973 Act di- rected the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to prepare a report on Endan- gered and Threatened plant species and to recommend necessary conservation PASSSMENT U NAIIV PLANT VULNERABILITY

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