5-Year Reviews

5-Year reviews initiated:

Initiated October 4, 2007 Federal Register Notice of Review and Request for Information

Dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris)

Houghton goldenrod (Solidago houghtonii)

Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae)

Scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon),

 

Initiated July 27, 2007 Federal Register Notice of Review and Request for Information

Kirtland’s warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)

White cat’s paw pearly mussel (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua)

Hine’s emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)

Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea)

Fassett’s locoweed (Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea)

 

Initiated September 21, 2006 Federal Register Notice of Review and Request for Information

Curtis's pearlymussel (initiated September 21, 2006)
Indiana bat (initiated September 21, 2006)

 

Initiated June 2, 2006 Federal Register Notice of Review and Request for Information

Copperbelly Water Snake - Northern Distinct Population Segment (initiated June 2, 2006)

 

Initiated March 30, 2006 Federal Register Notice of Review and Request for Information

Decurrent false aster (initiated March 30, 2006)
Gray bat (initiated March 30, 2006)
Iowa Pleistocene snail (initiated March 30, 2006)
Pitcher's thistle (initiated March 30, 2006)
Western prairie fringed orchid (initiated March 30, 2006)

 

Initiated March 30, 2006 Federal Register Notice of Review and Request for Information

Hungerford's crawling water beetle (initiated July 19, 2005)
Running buffalo clover (initiated July 19, 2005)

Approved 5-Year reviews:

Missouri Bladderpod (April 2008)

Higgins eye pearlymussel (April 2006)

A Brief Explanation of 5-year Reviews:

Five-year reviews of listed species are required by the Endangered Species Act (section 4(c)(2)). These reviews include evaluations of all new population status information and threats to the subject species.

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) conducts these periodic reviews to ensure the listing classification of a species as threatened or endangered is accurate. A review includes evaluations of the best scientific and commercial information that has become available since the original listing determination or last review, such as: species biology, habitat conditions, conservation measures, and threat status and trends. The Service publishes a notice in the Federal Register announcing the initiation of these reviews and provides the public an opportunity to submit relevant information regarding the species and its threats.

 

A 5-year review is intended to evaluate whether a change in a species listing classification is warranted. Changes in classification recommended in a 5-year review could include delisting, reclassification from threatened to endangered (i.e., uplisting), reclassification from endangered to threatened (i.e., downlisting), or no change is warranted at this time. The 5-year review does not involve rule-making, so no change to a species classification is made at the time a review is completed. If a change is recommended in the completed review, the Service would need to initiate a separate rule-making process to propose the change.

 

The Endangered Species Act defines the term “endangered species” to mean any species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. The term “threatened species” means any species that is at risk of becoming endangered within the foreseeable future, throughout all or a significant portion of its range. In referring to these definitions, the Service determines whether a species is endangered or threatened based on one or more of the following five factors as outlined under section 4(a)(1) of the ESA:

(a) The present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of a species habitat or range;
(b) Overutilization for commercial, recreational, scientific, or educational purposes;
(c) Disease or predation;
(d) The inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms; or
(e) Other natural or manmade factors affecting its continued existence.

 

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