15.246: Threatened and Endangered Species

15.246

Active

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) [DOI]

July 8, 2022

July 8, 2022

The T&E Species Program has an important role in furthering the Administration’s priorities including restoring landscape connectivity and function, conserving and restoring lands to combat climate change, restoring legacy disturbances, supporting the Civilian Climate Corps, conserving biodiversity, reducing species’ extinctions, increasing recovery success, and using the best science and data available to make decisions, provide decision support, and adaptively manage. The BLM, as a federal agency, is required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to carry out programs to protect and recover threatened and endangered (T&E) species and the ecosystems upon which they depend and implements tasks identified in T&E recovery plans developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service. The BLM also implements conservation actions for sensitive and candidate species to preclude the need for federal listing. The Threatened and Endangered Species Program works to conserve and recover federally-listed animal and plant species and their habitat on public lands and shares cooperative responsibility with other BLM programs and partners for conservation of candidate and sensitive species. The scope of the T&E Species Program spans all taxa that merit designation under the Endangered Species Act, providing a cross section of the most imperiled species of mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, invertebrates, fish, and plants. As of 2021, 430 federally threatened and endangered species and over 20 federal candidate species occur within BLM jurisdiction. Public lands often provide the key habitat for species recovery and conservation. Managing more land than any other federal agency, the BLM plays a pivotal and substantive role in species recovery. Due to the commingling of federal and nonfederal lands, the BLM’s proactive commitment to conserve threatened and endangered species is essential to federal, state, and non-governmental organizations in meeting our mutual interest of species recovery. Collaboration on conservation endeavors with the ultimate goal to increase threatened and endangered species populations and manage and restore habitat of these federal trust wildlife, fish and plants within the public domain, serves a public purpose as required in cooperative agreements.

B - Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)

Not Applicable

All Public Land users.

15.244 - Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management

15.245 - Plant Conservation and Restoration Management

15.247 - Wildlife Resource Management

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