Interagency Special Status /
Sensitive Species Program (ISSSSP)

Welcome!

The Pacific Northwest Regional Office of the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon/Washington State Office of the Bureau of Land Management established an interagency program for the conservation and management of rare species.

This new interagency collaboration will focus on regional-level approaches for species that meet agency criteria for inclusion on sensitive and special status lists. This includes those species that are not federally listed as Threatened or Endangered, or Proposed for federal listing.

Coordination

Coordination will include:

• identifying high priority species and habitats,
• identifying data gaps and information needs,
• developing conservation assessments and strategies,
• conducting range-wide inventories,
• managing data,
• working with key partners in state and federal agencies, research, universities, and non-government organizations, and
• making information available to field staff and the public

Navigation Tips

This website can be navigated most effectively by clicking on the Index by Species page in the right-hand sidebar and looking for the species of interest by taxa group (Fauna-Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Invertebrates, Mammals, Reptiles and Flora-Bryophytes, Fungi, Lichens, Vascular Plants).  Each species has a listing of all the documents posted on this website.

For example, if you are interested in Euphydryas editha taylori, Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, click on Index by Species in the right-hand sidebar.  When the sidebar opens, drag your cursor to Fauna-Invertebrates and click on it.   A new page opens with all the documents related to invertebrates organized by order or class.  Scroll down to Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera).  Species are listed in alphabetical order by scientific name.  Under Euphydryas editha taylori you will find three documents; 1) a final survey report, 2) a species fact sheet, and 3) the USFWS Candidate Species Assessment.

If you have any problems accessing a document or questions regarding this website, please navigate to ISSSSP Home, Contact Us and an ISSSSP representative will respond to your email message.