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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 or are identified as BLM sensitive species, providing a cross section of the most imperiled species of mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, invertebrates, fish, and plants. As of 2023, there are over 330 federally threatened and endangered species and 2400 federal sensitive species occur within BLM managed lands. 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 or BLM sensitive 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. This program supports project funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 40804 (b) Ecosystem Restoration.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
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Made over 95 awards - The highest priority areas of focus for the Threatened and Endangered Species program are to implement recovery tasks for those species that have the highest potential to be recovered; address the needs of those species with the highest risk of extinction; and conserve those species experiencing the greatest conflict in BLM multiple use operations. There are times when, instead of approaching recovery of a specific focal species, conservation actions must be on the broader ecosystem itself, with restoration centered on its primary function or driver. Such is the case of the coastal dunes in northern California, home to seven listed plants and the western snowy plover.
The highest priority areas of focus for the Threatened and Endangered Species program are to implement recovery tasks for those species that have the highest potential to be recovered; address the needs of those species with the highest risk of extinction; and conserve those species experiencing the greatest conflict in BLM multiple use operations. There are times when, instead of approaching recovery of a specific focal species, conservation actions must be on the broader ecosystem itself, with restoration centered on its primary function or driver.
The highest priority areas of focus for the Threatened and Endangered Species program are to implement recovery tasks for those species that have the highest potential to be recovered; address the needs of those species with the highest risk of extinction; and conserve those species experiencing the greatest conflict in BLM multiple use operations. There are times when, instead of approaching recovery of a specific focal species, conservation actions must be on the broader ecosystem itself, with restoration centered on its primary function or driver.
Removal of invasive plant species and restoration with native species along riverways of the Pecos watershed (enhance habitat for T&E species), conduct genetic studies, surveys and modeling of listed plant and bird species; monitor desert tortoises and raven predation.
BLM funded 97 projects at the national, state and field levels across 13 western states. Projects included removal of invasive plant species and restoration with native species along riverways of the Pecos watershed (enhance habitat for T&E species); conduct genetic studies of listed plant and bird species; monitor desert tortoises and raven predation. Project to improve the consistency and efficiency of how Element Occurrence (EO) data (special status species observation records) are collected, and managed to improve the information BLM uses to make decisions for NEPA compliance, conservation, and recovery. Identifying communal data workflows that improve the quality and timeliness of the data BLM needs to conserve and manage species.
In FY23, BLM funded NatureServe for the following efforts: 1) Maintain up to date species taxonomy, distribution, and status.
2) Identify and fill gaps in distribution data for SSS using species habitat models and other data.
3) Develop prioritization tool for BLM SSS.
4) Improve data exchange between BLM, network programs, and NatureServe.
5) Coordinate the management and use of mobile apps and survey forms for collection of SSS data.
6) Provide access through Explorer Pro for BLM staff to visualize, query, and download subsets and associated attributes of precise location spatial data.
BLM also funded Conservation Science Partners facilitation and development of a BLM rangewide Mojave desert tortoise strategic plan.
No proposals received and no projects were funded in FY24.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
