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Changes to the New Mexico Listed and Sensitive Species Lists

All Species Usts can be considered current subject to the following changes.

Common Name Scientific Name Status Act ion Dat e Reason

Charadrius Proposed Reclassified from Species of Concern to a The Service is reinstating its 2002 proposal to Mountain plover montanus Threatened Proposed Threatened species. 6/29/10 list the mountain plover as a threatened

species under the Endangered Species Act.

Wright's marsh Cirsium wrightii Species of Added to Socorro County - Removed from 4/15/09 Correction of county occurrence. thistle Concern Lincoln County

Southwestern Empidonax traillii Endangered Added to Eddy County. 115109 Species is found in this county. willow flycatcher extimus

Pecos sunflower Helianthus Threatened Critical Habitat established in Chaves, Cibola 4/1/08 Habitat was determined to occur in Chaves: 'paradoxus and Guadalupe counties. Cibola and Guadalupe counties.

New Mexican Zapus hudson ius Reclassified from Species of Concern to a In December 2007, we concluded that the meadow jumping Candidate 1211/07 status of the jumping mouse qualified as a mouse luteus Candidate species. candidate species under the ESA.

Bald eagle Haliaeetus NotUsted Removed as a Threatened Species. 8/8/07 Removed as a Threatened Species. leucocephalus

Gray Wolf Canis lupus Dropped from Luna county . Added to Sierra Species does not occur in Luna county but (Mexican Gray baileyi Endangered county 4/9/07 does occur in Sierra county. Wolf)

The Gila trout has been reclassified from endangered to threatened with a special rule to allow recreational fishing opportunities.

Gila trout Oncorhynchus Threatened Reclassified from Endangered to Threatened. 7118/06 Threatened status is appropriate because the gilae number of populations has increased from 4 to

12 since recovery efforts began, and all of the threats affecting the species have either been reduced or eliminated.

Meleagris Species of Gould's turkey gallopava Concern Corrected spelling. 7117/06 Mexicana was incorrectly spelled. mexicana

Mountain plover Charadrius Species of Added to Sierra County. 7/17/06 SpeCies is found in this county. montanus Concern

Added superscript "2" to all counties except To alert action agencies to survey for black-Black .. footed ferret Mustela nigripes Endangered Dona Ana, Hidalgo, and Luna. 7/5/06 footed ferrets if the project involved disturbance

to prairie dog towns or camp/exes.

Rio Grande Catostomus Species of Added to Catron, Cibola, Grant, Lincoln Luna, Consulted "The Fishes 'of New Mexico" by JE. Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, and Taos 6/28/06 Sublette, MD. Hatch and M Sublette for Sucker plebeius Concern Counties. species distribution .

Santa Fe cholla Opuntia viridiflora Species of Dropped from Catron, Cibola, Harding,and San 6/28/06 SpeCies does not occur in these counties. Concern Juan Counties.

Sacramento Mountains Euphydryas Species of Added to Otero County. 6128/06 Species was omitted from initia/list. checkerspot anicia cloudcrofti Concern butterfly

Goodding's onion Allium gaoddingii Species of Dropped from Lincoln and San Juan Counties. 6/28/06 Species does not occur in those counties. Concern

Baird's sparrow Ammodramus Species of Dropped from Cibola and McKinley Counties. 6128/06 Species does not occur in those counties. bairdii Concern

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