Endangered Species Resource Materials
Fact Sheets, Brochures, and Pamphlets
Podcasts, narrated slideshows, and video the Endangered Species Act and about specific species are available the Multimedia webpage.
Mammals
- Canada lynx (PDF)
- Gray bat
- Gray wolf
- Indiana bat
Birds
- Bald eagle
- Interior least tern
- Kirtland's warbler
- Piping plover
- Whooping crane (PDF)
Reptiles
- Copperbelly water snake
- Eastern massasauga
- Lake Erie water snake
Fishes
- Neosho madtom
- Niangua darter
- Ozark cavefish
- Pallid sturgeon
- Scioto madtom
- Topeka shiner
Clams
(Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)
- Clubshell
- Cracking pearlymussel
- Curtis' pearlymussel
- 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
- Scaleshell
- Tubercled-blossom pearlymussel
- White cat's paw pearlymussel
- White wartyback pearlymussel
- Winged mapleleaf mussel
Snails
- Iowa Pleistocene snail
- Tumbling Creek cavesnail
Insects
- American burying beetle
- Dakota skipper
- Hine's emerald dragonfly
- Hungerford's crawling
water beetle
- Karner blue butterfly
- Mitchell's satyr butterfly
Crustaceans
- Illinois cave amphipod
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
General
- Why Save Endangered Species (pamphlet) (PDF)
- Endangered Species Act of 1973 (as amended) links to online versions of each section of the Act or go here for a PDF version of the Endangered Species Act
- A History of the ESA (PDF)
- ESA Basics: a Summary of the Act (PDF)
- Recovery, Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)
Section 4 - Listing
- Candidate Species (PDF)
- Critical Habitat (PDF)
- Listing a Species as Threatened or Endangered, Section 4 of The Endangered Species Act (PDF)
- Petition process (PDF)
Section 6 - Grants
- Grants: Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act (PDF)
Section 7 - Consultation
- Consultations with Federal Agencies Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (PDF)
Section 10 - Permits and Habitat Conservation Plans
- Habitat Conservation Plans Under the Endangered Species Act) (1-page PDF)
- Habitat Conservatin Plans: Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act (PDF)
- Permits for Native Species (PDF)
Landowners
- Safe Harbor Agreements for Private Property Owners, Questions and Answers (PDF)
- Our Endangered Species Program and How It Works with Landowners (PDF)
Other
Information
- 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
- Iowa
- Indiana
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Ohio
- Wisconsin
For Kids and Teachers
- What
You Can Do to Help Endangered Wildlife and Plants (PDF)
- Indiana Bats, Kids, and Caves - Oh My! (an activity book for teachers)
- Bat Box Instructions for Indiana (PDF)
Miscellaneous
- Conserving the Nature of America (pamphlet about the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Midwest
- Homeowners Guide to Protecting Frogs: Lawn and Garden Care
- Midwest Ephemeral Wetlands: A Vanishing Habitat
Audio
visual materials are available from the Resource Center at Minnesota
Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Endangered Species audio visual materials include a gray wolf education
trunk, Suitcase for Survival, films, videos, and more.
Write for your free catalog:
Resource Center - Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
3815 East
80th Street
Bloomington, Minnesota 55425-1600.
or go online to http://midwest.fws.gov/MinnesotaValley/resource_center.html
List of publications on the National Endangered Species website.
We have a small supply of posters and pamphlets that are available upon written request. Please e:mail Eric Lorence at Eric_Lorence@fws.gov and type Endangered Species Information Request in the subject line. Below is a list of posters, pamphlets, and brochures that are availsable.
Posters
Limit your request to 3 posters, please
- Discover Freshwater Mussels
-
National Wolf Poster: 2007
- Partnerships for Endangered Species
- Golden cheeked warbler Conservation Initiative
Pamphlets
- Golden Cheeked Warbler Conservation Initiative
- Live and Let Live: People and the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
- Why Save Endangered Species
- Volunteers: Helping Us Help Wildife (pamphlet)
- Careers (pamphlet)
- Endangered Species Act (pamphlet)
- Conserving Endangered and Threatened Species on Private Land (12-page booklet)
- Working Together: Tools for Helping Imperiled Wildlife on Private Lands (PDF, 23-page booklet), tools for private landowners to work with the Service and other partners are featured in this publication.
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