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 Special
Status Plant
Management Program
Special status plants
are those plants found on public lands administered by the Bureau
of Land Management whose survival is of concern due to:
1) their limited distribution,
2) low number
of individuals and/or populations, and
3) potential threats to habitat.
The Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) uses the term "special status plants" to include:
1) Federal
endangered, threatened, proposed
and candidate species;
2) California State endangered,
threatened, and rare
species;
3) BLM Sensitive plants. Sensitive
plants are those species that do not occur on Federal or state
lists, but which are designated by the BLM State Director for
special management consideration.
It is BLM policy to manage
for the conservation of special status plants and their associated
habitats and to ensure that actions authorized, funded, or carried
out do not contribute to the need to list any species as threatened
or endangered. For additional information on the management of Special
Status Plants, please refer to BLM Manual Supplement H-6840-1.
This handbook establishes the procedures to be used in complying
with BLM policy (note: to view or print the following PDF files,
you will need to have Adobe
Acrobat Reader, a free download from the company.):
The California State Office maintains a list of all special status plants known or suspected to occur on BLM lands. This list can be accessed in three different ways:
1. Sorted by scientific name.
2. Sorted by common name.
3. Sorted first by field office, then by scientific name.
Use the following links to view only those plants known to occur on BLM lands managed by a particular California Field Office (species known to occur in one Field Office and suspected to occur in another are shown on the lists for both field offices):
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by the Bureau of Land Management
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