Program Contacts:
Marc Bosch, Program Leader
Regional Program Leaders & Web Sites

Regional TES Sites:
R1 - Northern Region
R2 - Rocky Mountain Region
R5 - Pacific Southwest Region
R9 - Eastern Region

Program Initiatives:
FS Carnivore Conservation
Every Species Counts!
Bats: Masters of the Night Sky
Great Plains TES Program

Biodiversity Projects
Kirtland's Warbler Recovery
Kirtland's Warbler - Numbers Up in Bahamas

Related FS Topic Areas:
Wildlife
Fish
Rare Plants
Fish and Wildlife Research
Planning to Support TES Recovery
Celebrating Wildflowers

Related Links:
US Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program
US Fish & Wildlife Service Section 7 Consultation Handbook
NOAA Fisheries Endangered Species

Downloadable Documents:
Endangered Species Act
ESA Basics
Sec. 7 MOA Executive Summary
MOA Transmittal Letter
MOA Final

Endangered species on National Forest System lands are managed under the National Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Species (TES) Program, and is supported by the National Botanical Ecology Unit, National Wildlife Ecology Unit, and National Fish & Aquatic Ecology Unit.

The TES Program assists field biologists, other staff personnel and line officers to attain the Chief's priorities and managing TES resources from a healthy ecosystem perspective. This includes recovery of threatened and endangered species and their habitats, conservation of sensitive species and their habitats, and providing for the diversity of plant and animal communities on National Forest System lands.

Program Initiative examples include: Every Species Counts!, Carnivore Conservation, Great Plains TES Program, and Bats: Masters of the Night Sky. Initiatives are special emphasis activities done through a variety of habitat improvement, monitoring, analysis, conservation planning, and coordination with other resources. The intent of TES initiatives is to help the Forest Service and our partners accomplish specific recovery and conservation objectives for TES species and their habitats.

The TES Program includes management done for all threatened, endangered and designated sensitive species on National Forest System lands. Because TES species habitats are important for other species as well, close coordination is done with the Botany and Rare Plant, Fisheries, and Wildlife Programs, as well as with other Forest Service resource management programs.

Adams and Swift Awards ::

2009 (Awarded at the North American Wildlife & Natural Resource Conference)
Lloyd Swift Sr. Award - Jim Claar, National Carnivore Program Leader, selected for his national leadership role in carnivore conservation.

Jack Adams Award
Thomas Skinner, Forest Fisheries/Wildlife Biologist of the Coronado National Forest.
Mary Sue Fisher, Regional Budget and Long-term Planner, Pacific Southwest Regional Office.

Jack Adams and Lloyd W. Swift Sr. Awards recognize outstanding, sustained employee performance

FS-BLM Conservation Leadership Partner Award -
The Conservation Partner award was presented to Bat Conservation International for its outstanding work in bat conservation.

The Conservation Project award was presented to the West-slope Bighorn Mountains Cooperative Initiative for over 10 years of cooperative work in big game and riparian habitat restoration in northern Wyoming and southern Montana.

2006 Award recipients DOC (48.5 KB) PDF (33.4 KB)

Training:

ESA Counterpart Regulation Training (on FS WWW system)

The above link is for informational purposes only. The web-based training was established May 2004, and Forest Service personnel should access the training module and the certification exam at the DOI Learn site. Please do not take the certification exam if you are not a Forest Service or BLM employee qualified to use the Counterpart Regulations. The certification exam is only available through the DOI Learn intranet site, and the exam can only be accessed after taking the training on that site.

As of November, 2008, 934 Forest Service personnel trained and certified to use the ESA Counterpart Regulations.

TES Items of Interest:

Partnership Report
Forest Service Find-a-Photo Library
WFW Issue Update Papers
TES Program Summary
WFRP-MS Accomplishment and Opportunity Database
Prairie Dog
Canada Lynx
NatureServe Explorer Database
(database of 50,000 N.A. species and ecosystems)
USDA PLANTS Database

Timely TES News:

• Krombein, et al., (eds). 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Volumes 1-4. The Smithsonian Institution provided this contribution through the Biodiversity Heritage Library project.
  
  
  
• Endangered Species Conservation Opportunities, FY 2008. Forest Service opportunities to recover and conserve listed and sensitive species on National Forests and Grasslands.
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• Bat Survey Needs Associated with Facility Disposal - letter and enclosures
  Comments/Experience included from Dennis Krusac (2006)
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• Forest Service designated Sensitive Species (286 KB pdf) on the National Forests & Grasslands, and related summary information.
  

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• T&E Species summary, by species group, on the National Forests & Grasslands
  

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• Number of T&E Species on NFS lands, 1967-2007
  

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• TEP Species, USDA Forest Service, 2008
  

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• The Carnivore Conservation Program web site includes information and resources on Canada Lynx, Wolverine and Fisher recovery and conservation efforts.
  
  

• USDI Fish and Wildlife Service's Conservation Issues Web site Wildfire, the Endangered Species Act, and Human Safety. In particular, see Sec. Norton's August 20, 2001 memo, and the 1995 FWS memo on this topic. Forest Service policies on fire suppression, and how such activities relate to the ESA:
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• Healthy Forests Initiative includes using Endangered Species Act procedures to support and expedite resource management decisions. The ESA Consultation Counterpart Regulations were published on December 8, 2003. An Alternative Consultation Agreement (ACA) was approved by the Forest Service, FWS and NMFS on March 3, 2003. See this News Release regarding the final rule and ACA. A Frequently Asked Questions document and contacts for Counterpart Regulations implementation is available. See also a similar FWS site and National Fire Plan info.
  Healthy Forest Report 2005.