The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is conducting a 5-year status review
of 42 threatened and endangered fish,
wildlife and plants in the southeast.
The
5-year reviews are done to see whether the plants and animals are
still endangered or whether they can be reclassified.
There
are two species on the list that you can only find in our area.
Those
are the Chapman’s Rhododendron which you can only find in Gulf,
Gadsden and Liberty counties and the Florida Torreya which is now
found in the wild only along the Apalachicola River in the Florida
Panhandle and southernmost Georgia.
They
are also looking at the St. Andrew beach mouse which is only found in
Bay and Gulf Counties as well as three freshwater mussel species
found in our area including the fat three-ridge, the shiny-rayed
pocketbook and the oval pigtoe.
Other
species being reviewed are the Red-cockaded woodpecker, the Florida
bonneted bat, and the American crocodile among many others.
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