Bull Trout Usfws Status

The review process solicited status assessment information from cooperators in the states within which bull trout reside Montana Idaho Nevada Oregon and Washington but a final review determination has not been completed by the Service.
Bull trout usfws status. Based on this status review in our most recent recovery report to Congress USFWS 2012 we reported that bull trout were generally stable overall range-wide species status. The conservation needs of the bull trout are often generally expressed as the four ACs. Bull Trout is ranked as Sensitive nationally N3 in British Columbia the interior lineage is ranked as S3 and also S3 in Alberta and Yukon.
WDFW plays a lead role in monitoring and managing bull trout and ensuring fisheries do not negatively impact them. Salvelinus confluentus also called the bull trout or inland dolly varden is most closely associated with pristine mountainous areas of the northwestern United States and Canada where cold clean waters flow. On April 8 1999 USFWS revised the status of the Jarbidge Distinct Population Segment of bull trout population to threatened The original ten year NDOW Bull Trout Species Management Plan expired in December 2000.
A summary of the current status and conservation needs of the bull trout within these units is provided below. Bull trout Salvelinus confluentus marbled murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus streaked horned lark Eremophila alpestris strigata Bradshaws lomatium Lomatium bradshawii Golden paintbrush Castilleja levisecta Kincaids lupine Lupinus sulphureus ssp. Fish and Wildlife Service USFWS is responsible for recovery planning and consultation on actions that may affect the species.
Results indicated bull trout in Idaho were widely distributed and not at risk of extinction in the foreseeable future. Confluentus is confined to northwestern North America from Alaska to northern California Bjornn 1991. Bull Trout is assessed as Vulnerable under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN 2010.
Bull trout were listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act ESA in 1998 and the US. Pacific Northwest and like many other taxa that have recolonized formerly glaciated areas Bull Trout occupy a large geographic range Figure 5. The species historical range included Alaska California Idaho Montana Nevada Oregon Washington.
Bull trout are currently listed coterminously as a threatened species. Cold clean complex and connected. 1997 and Ratliff and Howell 1992.