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From the lynx of the northern Maine forests to the Lee County cave isopod in southwestern Virginia, each of the Northeast Region's endangered and threatened species is unique, and each poses different conservation challenges. Invasive species and advancing ecological succession plague bog turtles and Karner blue butterflies; beach-nesting piping plovers must avoid both predators and bathers to survive; eagles face continuing habitat loss; and swamp pinks suffer from changes in hydrology.
The biologists of the Northeast Region Endangered Species Division work with many partners to protect and conserve listed and candidate species. We have cooperative management agreements with all 13 states in our region, and they carry out a large share of the recovery work. Private conservation groups also play a major role, particularly in providing permanent habitat protection for many listed species.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works very closely with other federal agencies in the cause of endangered species conservation. The U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service and others have active management programs for many land holdings. Species ranging from Robbins cinquefoil to Cheat Mountain salamander to Michaux sumac all benefit from site protection.
Finally, private landowners play a significant role in this region because the federal land base is limited in size. Lynx and red-cockaded woodpeckers are two species that are benefiting from certain timber management regimes on private lands.
Project Review Requests
Field offices within the region review proposed projects for potential impacts to federally listed endangered and threatened species. Requests should be submitted in writ Peter ing and should also include a map that identifies the proposed project location (and indicates the U.S. Geological Survey topographic map by name). Please send your requests to the following offices, or contact those offices by telephone if you have additional questions.
Project Review Contacts
Geographic Area |
Office Address |
Phone |
Maine |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
17 Godfrey Dr., Suite #2
Orono, ME 04473 |
207-866-3344 |
New England
(except Maine) |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
70 Commercial Street, Suite 300
Concord, NH 03301-5087
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603-223-2541 |
New Jersey |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
927 N. Main Street, Building D
Pleasantville, NJ 08232-1454 |
609-646-9310 |
New York |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
3817 Luker Road
Cortland, NY 13045 |
607-753-9334 |
Pennsylvania |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
315 South Allen Street, Suite 322
State College, PA 16801-4850 |
814-234-4090 |
Maryland, Deleware, District of Columbia |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
177 Admiral Cochrane Drive
Annapolis, MD 21401 |
410-573-4500 |
Virginia |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
6669 Short Lane
Gloucester, VA 23061 |
804-693-6694 |
West Virginia |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Route 250 South, Elkins Shopping Plaza
694 Beverly Pike
Elkins, WV 26241 |
304-636-6586 |
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Endangered Species News
Agencies explore method to boost rare orchid in New Hampshire
Credit:USFWS
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The Service and the New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau thinned tree saplings at the site of one of the state's largest small whorled pogonia populations. Researchers are interested to see the effects of managing understory on a population demonstrating evidence of decline.
Happy Birthday Endangered Species Act!
In 2002, the Service announced the recovery of Robbins' cinquefoil, a rare plant once on the brink of extinction. Found only in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire, this plant went from a population of 3,700 in 1980 to more than 14,000 plants at its delisting.
Credit: USFWS
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is celebrating the Endangered Species Act's 38th birthday. Enacted on Dec. 28, 1973, the ESA works not only to prevent the loss or harm of endangered and threatened species, but to also preserve the ecosystems upon which these species depend. In the Northeast, the ESA has enabled the recovery of the Robbins' cinquefoil plant, and it has aided the improvement of purple bean freshwater mussel, Delmarva fox squirrel and Lee County Cave isopod populations.
Read the history of the ESA
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