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Endangered Species Resource Materials (pdf version)

The endangered species resource materials listed below can be sent to you free of charge from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Endangered Species, Region 3. Most of our materials focus on species that can be found in the 8-state area of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Some of the materials were developed by other agencies.

Many products are available on our website or you may request resource materials by writing, telephoning, or faxing the Division of Endangered Species. You may download this list and write your request directly on it. Please indicate how many of each item you would like and be sure to include your complete mailing address. We have information on the following:

Mammals
____ American black bear
____ American buffalo
____ Black-footed ferret
____ Canada lynx
____ Elephant
____ Florida panther
____ Giant panda
____ Gray bat
____ Gray wolf
____ Grizzly bear
____ Indiana bat
____ Muskox
____ Ozark big-eared bat
____ Red wolf
____ Rhinoceras
____ Polar bear
____ Tiger
____ West Indian manatee
____ Walrus

Birds
____ American peregrine falcon
____ Bald eagle
____ Brown pelican
____ California condor
____ Common tern
____ Dodo
____ Eskimo curlew
____ Interior least tern
____ Ivory-billed woodpecker
____ Kirtland's warbler
____ Piping plover
____ Trumpeter swan
____ Whooping crane

Reptiles
____ American alligator
____ Copperbelly water snake
____ Desert tortoise
____ Eastern massasauga
____ Lake Erie water snake
____ Sea Turtles

Fishes
____ Neosho madtom
____ Niangua darter
____ Ozark cavefish
____ Pallid sturgeon
____ Pacific salmon
____ Scioto madtom
____ Topeka shiner

Clams (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)
____ Clubshell
____ Cracking pearlymussel
____ Curtis' pearlymussel
____ Dwarf wedge mussel
____ Fanshell
____ Fat pocketbook
____ Higgin's eye pearlymussel
____ Northern riffleshell
____ Orange-foot pimpleback pearlymussel
____ Pink mucket pearlymussel
____ Purple cat's paw pearlymussel
____ Ring pink mussel
____ Rough pigtoe
____ Tubercled-blossom pearlymussel
____ White cat's paw pearlymussel
____ White wartyback pearlymussel
____ Winged mapleleaf mussel

Snails
____ Illinois cave amphipod
____ Iowa Pleistocene snail
____ Tumbling Creek cavesnail

Insects
____ American burying beetle
____ Hine's emerald dragonfly
____ Hungerford's crawling water beetle
____ Karner blue butterfly
____ Mitchell's satyr butterfly

Plants
____ American hart's-tongue fern
____ Decurrent false aster
____ Dwarf lake iris
____ Eastern prairie fringed orchid
____ Fassett's locoweed
____ Geocarpon
____ Houghton's goldenrod
____ Lakeside daisy
____ Leafy prairie-clover
____ Leedy's roseroot
____ Mead's milkweed
____ Michigan monkey-flower
____ Minnesota dwarf trout lily
____ Missouri bladderpod
____ Northern wild monkshood
____ Pitcher's thistle
____ Pondberry
____ Prairie bush-clover
____ Price's potato-bean
____ Running buffalo clover
____ Small whorled pogonia
____ Virginia spiraea
____ Western prairie fringed orchid

Other Information
____ ESA Basics (fact sheet)
____ Endangered Species, General Information (fact sheet)
____ Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants (worldwide list of endangered and threatened species)
____ Endangered Species Act of 1973
____ Endangered Species (a brochure with information about the Endangered Species Program)
____ Endangered, Threatened, and Proposed Species of Region 3 (list)
____ Candidate Species in Region 3 (list)
____ Extinct Wildlife (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Illinois (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Iowa (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Indiana (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Michigan (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Minnesota (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Missouri (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Ohio (list)
____ Federally Endangered and Threatened Species in Wisconsin (list)
____ Habitat Conservation Plans: The Quiet Revolution (booklet)
____ Critical Habitat Fact Sheet
____ Leaving a Lasting Legacy: Permits as a Conservation Tool

Teachers
____ Teacher's Packet: To Help Teachers and Students Learn More About Endangered Species

Especially for Kids
____ What You Can Do to Help Endangered Wildlife and Plants
____ Mark Trail Coloring Book
____ The Mini-Page:  Endangered Species
____ The Mini-Page:  Species Success
____ National Wolf Awareness for Kids (a newspaper)

Posters (limit your request to 6 posters, please)
____ 2002 and 2003 Regional Wolf Awareness
____ 2002 and 2003 National Wildlife Refuge Week
____ 2004 International Migratory Bird Day
____ Bats of the Great Lakes Region
____ Grassland Birds of the Midwest

Miscellaneous
____ For the Birds: Backyard Habitat
____ Conserve Migratory Birds
____ Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Midwest
____ Live and Let Live: People and the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
____ Lake Sturgeon: Giant of the Great Lakes
____ Homeowner’s Guide to Protecting Frogs: Lawn and Garden Care
____ Wildflowers of Minnesota’s Northern Prairies

(Audio visual materials are available from the Resource Center at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Write for your free catalog: Resource Center, Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, 3815 East 80th Street, Bloomington, Minnesota, 55425-1600. See <http://midwest.fws.gov/MinnesotaValley/resource_center.html>. Endangered Species audio visual materials include a gray wolf education trunk, Suitcase for Survival, films, videos, and more.)

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