Endangered Species Resource Materials

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The endangered species resource materials listed below can be sent to you free of charge from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Endangered Species, Region 3. Most of our materials focus on species that can be found in the 8-state area of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Some of the materials were developed by other agencies.

Many products are available on our website or you may request resource materials by writing, telephoning, or faxing the Division of Endangered Species. You may download a PDF version this list and write your request directly on it. Please indicate how many of each item you would like and be sure to include your complete mailing address. We have information on the following:

Mammals
____ American black bear
____ American buffalo
____ Black-footed ferret
____ Canada lynx
____ Elephant
____ Florida panther
____ Giant panda
____ Gray bat
____ Gray wolf
____ Grizzly bear
____ Indiana bat
____ Muskox
____ Ozark big-eared bat
____ Red wolf
____ Rhinoceras
____ Polar bear
____ Tiger
____ West Indian manatee
____ Walrus

Birds
____ American peregrine falcon
____ Bald eagle
____ Brown pelican
____ California condor
____ Dodo
____ Eskimo curlew
____ Interior least tern
____ Ivory-billed woodpecker (brochure)
____ Kirtland's warbler
____ Piping plover
____ Trumpeter swan
____ Whooping crane

 

Reptiles
____ American alligator
____ Copperbelly water snake
____ Desert tortoise
____ Eastern massasauga
____ Lake Erie water snake
____ Sea Turtles

 

Fishes
____ Neosho madtom
____ Niangua darter
____ Ozark cavefish
____ Pallid sturgeon
____ Pacific salmon
____ Scioto madtom
____ Topeka shiner

 

Clams (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)
____ Clubshell
____ Cracking pearlymussel
____ Curtis' pearlymussel
____ Dwarf wedge mussel
____ Fanshell
____ Fat pocketbook
____ Higgin's eye pearlymussel
____ Northern riffleshell
____ Orange-foot pimpleback pearlymussel
____ Pink mucket pearlymussel
____ Purple cat's paw pearlymussel
____ Ring pink mussel
____ Rough pigtoe
____ Tubercled-blossom pearlymussel
____ White cat's paw pearlymussel
____ White wartyback pearlymussel
____ Winged mapleleaf mussel

 

Snails
____ Illinois cave amphipod
____ Iowa Pleistocene snail
____ Tumbling Creek cavesnail

Insects
____ American burying beetle
____ Hine's emerald dragonfly
____ Hungerford's crawling water beetle
____ Karner blue butterfly
____ Mitchell's satyr butterfly

 

Plants
____ American hart's-tongue fern
____ Decurrent false aster
____ Dwarf lake iris
____ Eastern prairie fringed orchid
____ Fassett's locoweed
____ Geocarpon
____ Houghton's goldenrod
____ Lakeside daisy
____ Leafy prairie-clover
____ Leedy's roseroot
____ Mead's milkweed
____ Michigan monkey-flower
____ Minnesota dwarf trout lily
____ Missouri bladderpod
____ Northern wild monkshood
____ Pitcher's thistle
____ Pondberry
____ Prairie bush-clover
____ Price's potato-bean
____ Running buffalo clover
____ Small whorled pogonia
____ Virginia spiraea
____ Western prairie fringed orchid

 

Information about the Endangered Species Act
____ Candidate Species [2/2007] [PDF]

____ Consultations with Federal Agencies [2/2007] Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act [PDF]

____ Critical Habitat PDF (fact sheet)

____ ESA Basics PDF (fact sheet)

____ HCP Overview [PDF]

____ Habitat Conservation Plans and the Incidental Take Permitting Process [12/2005] [PDF]
____ A History of the ESA

____ Listing a Species as Threatened or Endangered, Section 4 of The Endangered Species Act [9/2007] [PDF]

____ Petition process[9/2001] [PDF]

____ Recovery, Frequently Asked Questions [8/2002] [PDF]

Landowners
____ Conservation Profiles: Landowners Help Imperiled Wildlife
____ Working Together: Tools for Helping Imperiled Wildlife on Private Lands (23 page brochure)

____ Safe Harbor Agreements 2/2004 for Private Property Owners, Questions and Answers [PDF]

____ Our Endangered Species Program and How It Works with Landowners [11/2007] [PDF]

 

Other Information
____ Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants (worldwide list of endangered and threatened species)
____ Endangered Species Act of 1973 (PDF)
____ Endangered, Threatened, and Proposed Species of Region 3 (list)
____ Candidate Species in Region 3 (list)
____ Extinct Wildlife (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Illinois (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Iowa (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Indiana (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Michigan (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Minnesota (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Missouri (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Ohio (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Wisconsin (list)
____ Habitat Conservation Plans: The Quiet Revolution (booklet)
____ Critical Habitat Fact Sheet
____ Leaving a Lasting Legacy: Permits as a Conservation Tool

____ Why Save Endangered Species (pamphlet) PDF

 

Especially for Kids
____ What You Can Do to Help Endangered Wildlife and Plants (PDF)

 

Posters (limit your request to 3 posters, please)
____ 2007 Pollinator Week Poster

____ 2008 Pollinator Week Poster
____ National Wolf Poster: 2007
____ Regional Wolf Poster: 2007

 

Miscellaneous
____ Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Midwest
____ Live and Let Live: People and the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
____ Homeowner’s Guide to Protecting Frogs: Lawn and Garden Care

(Audio visual materials are available from the Resource Center at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Write for your free catalog: Resource Center, Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, 3815 East 80th Street, Bloomington, Minnesota, 55425-1600. See <http://midwest.fws.gov/MinnesotaValley/resource_center.html>.

 

List of publications on the National Endangered Species website.

 

Endangered Species audio visual materials include a gray wolf education trunk, Suitcase for Survival, films, videos, and more.)

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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Endangered Species Division
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