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Endangered Species I. Why do we need an act to protect plants and animals A. Expanding extinction of domestic and foreign plants and animals 1. Economic Development andamp; Population Growth 2. Lack of Concern

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Endangered Species B. Is this a problem? 1. Extinction is natural 2. Adaptation/natural selection - more species that get along with humans 3. How much lifestyle/economic development should we sacrifice for other species?

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Endangered Species II. History A. 1900 Lacy Act B. Migratory Bird Act 1918 C. 1920s-1960s 1. Wildlife management controlled by states Conservationists a. Wildlife as resource b. Support state management

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Endangered Species D. Endangered Species Preservation Act - 1966 1. Only animals living in federal wildlife refuges protected 2. Federal government prohibited from regulating hunting/fishing off refuges 3. Listed species not protected if they leave the refuge

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Endangered Species 4. Voluntary protection by other federal agencies a. All ignore the law

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Endangered Species E. Endangered Species Act - 1973 1. Our primary means of protecting animal and plant species near extinction 2. Species are listed as endangered or threatened

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Endangered Species 3. Penalties for taking of endangered species '…to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.' 4. Developing a recovery plan 5. Designating Critical Habitat

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Endangered Species 523 animals are listed as endangered or threatened nationally, 1,083 worldwide Listed as Threatened 129 in the US and 44 Foreign Listed as Endangered 394 in the US and 516 Foreign

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Endangered Species 745 species of plants are listed nationally, 748 worldwide Listed as Threatened 146 in the US and 2 Foreign Listed as Endangered 599 in the US and 1 Foreign

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Endangered Species A total of 1,268 species listed in the US Of those, 1,035 have recovery plans

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Endangered Species Which state has the most listed species? California - 304 Which state has the least number of endangered species? North Dakota - 8

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Endangered Species How many species does Michigan have listed? 21

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Endangered Species Animals -- 13 E - Bat, Indiana ( Myotis sodalis) E - Beetle, American burying ( Nicrophorus americanus) E - Beetle, Hungerford's crawling water ( Brychius hungerfordi) E - Butterfly, Karner blue ( Lycaeides melissa samuelis) E - Butterfly, Mitchell's satyr ( Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii) E - Clubshell Entire Range; Except where listed as Experimental Populations ( Pleurobema clava) T - Eagle, bald lower 48 States ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus) E - Plover, piping Great Lakes watershed ( Charadrius melodus)

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Endangered Species E - Puma (=cougar), eastern ( Puma (=Felis) concolor couguar) E - Riffleshell, northern ( Epioblasma torulosa rangiana) T - Snake, copperbelly water MI, OH, IN N of 400 N. Lat. ( Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta) E - Warbler (=wood), Kirtland's ( Dendroica kirtlandii) E - Wolf, gray lower 48 States, except MN and where XN; Mexico ( Canis lupus)

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Endangered Species Plants -- 8 T - Fern, American hart's-tongue ( Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum) T - Thistle, Pitcher's ( Cirsium pitcheri) T - Daisy, lakeside ( Hymenoxys herbacea) T - Iris, dwarf lake ( Iris lacustris) T - Pogonia, small whorled ( Isotria medeoloides) E - Monkey-flower, Michigan ( Mimulus glabratus var. michiganensis) T - Orchid, eastern prairie fringed ( Platanthera leucophaea) T - Goldenrod, Houghton's ( Solidago houghtonii)

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Endangered Species How many species have recovered and are now de-listed? 15 How many species were listed and then went extinct? 9

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Endangered Species Habitat: Inland wetlands/fens/bogs Species: Bog turtle, Mitchell’s satyr butterfly, Eastern massasauga rattlesnake, Hine’s emerald dragonfly

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Endangered Species Bald Eagle recommended for de-listing in July 1999