Salmon Species, Clear Lake Hitch Among CDFW Reviews For Threatened, Endangered Status

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife released a list of plant life, fish and wildlife that will continued for five-year reviews to determine potential threatened of endangered species. Notable species include fish such as the native Clear Lake hitch, Southern Oregon-Northern California Coast coho salmon and spring-run Chinook.

Here’s the press release with the full list:

CDFW Call for Information on Listed Threatened and Endangered Species

Greetings,

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) expects to initiate or continue Five-year Reviews for the threatened or endangered species listed below within the next two to three years. The purpose of a Five-year Review is to determine if the conditions that led to the original listing of a species are still present.  When initiating a Five-year Review, the Department is required to notify any person who has contacted the California Fish and Game Commission and expressed interest in a species listed under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA; Fish & G. Code § 2077, subd. (a)). CDFW may review the following species:

Plants

• Boggs Lake hedge-hyssop (Gratiola heterosepala)
• California jewelflower (Caulanthus californicus)
• Hairy Orcutt grass (Orcuttia pilosa)
• Lake County stonecrop (Sedella leiocarpa)
• Red Mountain catchfly (Silene campanulata campanulata)
• Slender-petaled thelypodium (Thelypodium stenopetalum)
• Ventura marsh milkvetch (Astragalus pycnostachyus lanosissimus)
• Burke’s goldfields (Lasthenia burkei)
• Calistoga popcornflower (Plagiobothrys strictus)
• Napa bluegrass (Poa napensis)

Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates

• Shasta crayfish (Pacifastacus fortis)
• Modoc sucker (Catostomus microps)
• Lost River sucker (Deltistes luxatus)
• Shortnose sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris)
• Mohave Tui Chub (Siphateles bicolor mohavensis)
• Cottonball Marsh Pupfish (Cyprinodon salinus milleri)
• California freshwater shrimp (Syncaris pacifica)
• Clear Lake hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi)
• Unarmored threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus williamsoni)
• Southern Oregon-Northern California Coast Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
• Central California coast Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
• Spring Run Chinook Salmon (Oncorhyncus tshawytscha)

Wildlife

• Santa Cruz long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum)
• Fresno kangaroo rat (Dipodomys nitratoides exilis)
• California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)
• Alameda whipsnake (Masticophis lateralis euryxanthus)
• Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard (Uma inornata)
• California least tern (Sternula antillarum browni)
• California Ridgway’s rail (Rallus obsoletus obsoletus)
• Morro Bay kangaroo rat (Dipodomys heermaani morroensis)
• Mohave ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus mohavensis)
• Great gray owl (Strix nebulosa)

If you have information on any of the species above that you would like the Department to consider while conducting Five-year Species Reviews, please submit it to the appropriate e-mail address listed below.

• Plants – NativePlants@wildlife.ca.gov
• Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates – Native.Fishes@wildlife.ca.gov
• Wildlife – WildlifeMgt@wildlife.ca.gov

More information can be found on the Department’s Five-year Reviews website. You may also subscribe to the Department’s electronic mailing list for updates related to species listed under CESA.