Upcoming Endangered Species Listing Decisions in Arizona 2022-2027

I found a 5-year workplan on the USFWS site and made a list of all of the AZ species that USFWS will make listing determinations for. 

Its pretty interesting to look at what’s coming up.  Lots of talussnails!  But after the Sonoran desert tortoise (which they decided not to list), I think the next big one is the Monarch butterfly.  

Also interesting that there’s no bumble bee species on this list, as I know they’ve been petitioned.  Of course, this could all change as new species are added to the candidate list and priorities change...

 

FY22

Sonoran desert tortoise

-widely distributed in AZ deserts

- listing decision spring 2022: not warranted

 

Cactus ferrugous pygmy owl 

-by end of calendar year

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/237012-Glaucidium-brasilianum-cactorum

https://www.audubon.org/news/this-tiny-desert-raptor-could-soon-regain-federal-protection

 

roundtail chub

 

gray wolf (western populations)

 

 

FY23

Joshua tree 

 

Quitobaquito tryonia

 

 

FY24

Monarch butterfly

-widely distributed in AZ

A listing proposal is anticipated by November 2023, with a final listing decision by end of Federal FY2024 (September 2024). 

 

Las Vegas bearpoppy Arctomecon californica

 

Pinaleno talussnail Sonorella grahamensis

San Xavier talussnail Sonorella eremita

 

 

FY25

Ferris's copper butterfly Lycaena ferrisi

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1360320-Tharsalea-rubidus-ferrisi

ASNF southwest of Springerville

 

Chisos coral-root Hexalectris revoluta

Sky island mountains

 

Threecorner milkvetch  Astragalus geyeri var. triquetrus

 

Grand Wash springsnail Pyrgulopsis bacchus

Kingman springsnail Pyrgulopsis conica

 

 

FY26

Arizona toad Bufo microscaphus microscaphus

- widely distributed in AZ

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/64982-Anaxyrus-microscaphus

 

Navajo bladderpod Lesquerella navajoensis

- habitat on Navajo Nation

 

Yuman Desert fringe-toed lizard Uma rufopunctata

 

Mojave poppy bee    Perdita meconis 

 

Bylas springsnail Pyrgulopsis arizonae

Gila tryonia Tryonia gilae

Huachuca woodlandsnail Ashmunella levettei

 

Squaw Park talussnail Maricopella allynsmithi

-populations are on city or county parks in the Phoenix metro area https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.114155/Maricopella_allynsmithi

 

Verde Rim springsnail Pyrgulopsis glandulosa

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/111425-Pyrgulopsis-glandulosa

 

 

FY27

Morton's wild buckwheat  Eriogonum mortonianum

 

Pipe Springs cryptantha    Cryptantha semiglabra

 

Source: https://www.fws.gov/media/national-listing-workplan-fiscal-years-2022-2027

More USFWS lists:  https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species-reports