Region 2 - Land & Resource Management

Sensitive Species List

White-tailed ptarmigan

White-tailed ptarmigan, Denny Bohon

The current Regional Forester's list of Sensitive Species (RFSS) for the Rocky Mountain Region is presented on this page, along with the original evaluations and rationale for sensitive status. These animal and plant species receive special emphasis in planning and management activities on National Forest System lands to assure their conservation. For the complete list of species considered for RFSS status to the present time, click on the "Species Evaluations and Rationales" link in the Quick Links box in the upper right corner of this page.

You may also download a copy of the FSM 2670 R2 Supplement (July 13, 2017) containing the current RFSS list.

ANIMALS
Amphibians
Boreal toad	Evaluation	Rationale
Columbia spotted frog, Region-wide	Evaluation	Rationale
Bighorn pop.	Evaluation
Northern leopard frog	Evaluation	Rationale
Plains leopard frog	Evaluation	Rationale
Wood frog, Region-wide	Evaluation	Rationale
Bighorn pop.	Evaluation
Southern Rockies pop.	Evaluation
Birds
American bittern	Evaluation	Rationale
Bald eagle	No evaluation	Rationale
Black swift	Evaluation	Rationale
Black tern	Evaluation	Rationale
Black-backed woodpecker	Evaluation	Rationale
Boreal owl	Evaluation	Rationale
Brewer's sparrow	Evaluation	Rationale
Cassin's sparrow	Evaluation	Rationale
Chestnut-collared longspur	Evaluation	Rationale
Columbian sharp-tailed grouse	Evaluation	Rationale
Ferruginous hawk	Evaluation	Rationale
Flammulated owl	Evaluation	Rationale
Grasshopper sparrow	Evaluation	Rationale
Greater prairie-chicken	Evaluation	Rationale
Greater sage-grouse	Evaluation	Rationale
Harlequin duck	Evaluation	Rationale
Lewis's woodpecker	Evaluation	Rationale
Loggerhead shrike	Evaluation	Rationale
Long-billed curlew	Evaluation	Rationale
McCown's longspur	Evaluation	Rationale
Mountain plover	No evaluation	Rationale
Northern goshawk	Evaluation	Rationale
Northern harrier	Evaluation	Rationale
Olive-sided flycatcher	Evaluation	Rationale
Peregrine falcon	Evaluation	Rationale
Purple martin	Evaluation	Rationale
Sagebrush sparrow	Evaluation	Rationale
Short-eared owl	Evaluation	Rationale
Trumpeter swan	Evaluation	Rationale
White-tailed ptarmigan	Evaluation	Rationale
Fishes
Bluehead sucker	Evaluation	Rationale
Colorado River cutthroat trout	Evaluation	Rationale
Finescale dace	Evaluation	Rationale
Flannelmouth sucker	Evaluation	Rationale
Flathead chub	Evaluation	Rationale
Hornyhead chub	Evaluation	Rationale
Lake chub	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale #1 \| #2
Mountain sucker	Evaluation	Rationale
Northern redbelly dace	Evaluation	Rationale
Northern pearl dace	Evaluation	Rationale
Plains minnow	Evaluation	Rationale
Plains topminnow	Evaluation	Rationale
Rio Grande chub	Evaluation	Rationale
Rio Grande cutthroat trout	Evaluation	Rationale
Rio Grande sucker	Evaluation	Rationale
Roundtail chub	Evaluation	Rationale
Southern redbelly dace	Evaluation	Rationale
Sturgeon chub	Evaluation	Rationale
Yellowstone cutthroat trout	Evaluation	Rationale
Insects
Arapahoe snowfly	ESA candidate
Hudsonian emerald	Evaluation	Rationale
Monarch	Evaluation	Rationale
Nokomis fritillary	Evaluation	Rationale
Ottoe skipper	Evaluation#1 \| #2	Rationale
Regal fritillary	Evaluation	Rationale
Susan's purse-making caddisfly	Evaluation	Rationale
Western bumblebee	Evaluation	Rationale
Mammals
American marten	Evaluation	Rationale
Black-tailed prairie dog	Evaluation	Rationale
Common hog-nosed skunk	Evaluation	Rationale
Desert bighorn sheep	Evaluation	Rationale
Fringed myotis	Evaluation	Rationale
Gunnison's prairie dog	Evaluation	Rationale
Hoary bat	Evaluation	Rationale
Kit fox	Evaluation	Rationale
Pygmy shrew (Rocky Mountain pop.)	Evaluation	Rationale
River otter	Evaluation	Rationale
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep	Evaluation	Rationale
Spotted bat	Evaluation	Rationale
Swift fox	Evaluation	Rationale
Townsend's big-eared bat	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Water vole (Bighorn Mountain pop.)	Evaluation	Rationale
White-tailed prairie dog	Evaluation	Rationale
Molluscs
Cooper's Rocky Mountain snail	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Pygmy Mountainsnail	Evaluation	Rationale
Rocky Mountain capshell	Evaluation	Rationale
Reptiles
Black Hills redbelly snake	Evaluation	Rationale
Massasauga	Evaluation	Rationale

PLANTS
Angiosperms - Dicots
Absaroka Range beardtongue	Evaluation	Rationale
American cranberrybush	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Arizona willow	Evaluation	Rationale
Aztec milkvetch	Evaluation	Rationale
Autumn willow	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Barr's milkvetch	Evaluation #1 \| #2 \| #3	Rationale
Barratt's willow	Evaluation	Rationale
Bill's neoparrya	Evaluation	Rationale
Bloodroot	Evaluation	Rationale
Blueberry willow	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Brandegee's buckwheat	No evaluation	Rationale
Cary's beardtongue	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Cathedral Bluff meadow-rue	Evaluation	Rationale
Clawless draba	Evaluation	Rationale
Colorado tansyaster	Evaluation #1 \| #2 \| #3	Rationale
Common twinpod	Evaluation	Rationale
Cushion Townsend daisy	Evaluation	Rationale
Cushion bladderpod	Evaluation	Rationale
Degener's beardtongue	Evaluation	Rationale
Dropleaf buckwheat	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Dwarf raspberry	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
English sundew	Evaluation	Rationale
Fremont's bladderpod	Evaluation	Rationale
Gray's draba	No evaluation	Rationale
Greenland primrose	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Harrington's beardtongue	Evaluation	Rationale
Ice cold buttercup	Evaluation	Rationale
Kotzebue's grass of Parnassus	Evaluation	Rationale
Laramie columbine	Evaluation	Rationale
Largeflower goldenweed	Evaluation	Rationale
Lesser bladderwort	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Lone Mesa snakeweed	Evaluation	Rationale
Mancos shale packera	Evaluation	Rationale
Many-stemmed goldenweed	Evaluation	Rationale
Missouri milkvetch	Evaluation	Rationale
Pagosa Springs bladderpod	Evaluation	Rationale
Park milkvetch	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Pike's Peak alpineparsley	Evaluation	Rationale
Prairie dodder	Evaluation	Rationale
Ripley's milkvetch	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Rock cinquefoil	Evaluation	Rationale
Rocky Mountain monkeyflower	Evaluation	Rationale
Roundleaf sundrew	Evaluation	Rationale
Rydberg's golden columbine	Evaluation	Rationale
Sageleaf willow	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Sandhill goosefoot	Evaluation	Rationale
Scarlet gilia	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Selkirk's violet	Evaluation	Rationale
Shoshone carrot	Evaluation	Rationale
Siberian sea thrift	Evaluation	Rationale
Smith's draba	Evaluation	Rationale
Smooth northern-rockcress	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Stonecrop gilia	No evaluation	Rationale
Tranquil goldenweed	Evaluation #1 \|#2	Rationale
Violet milkvetch	Evaluation	Rationale
Visher's buckwheat	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Weber's draba	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
West Silver bladderpod	Evaluation	Rationale
Wheel milkweed	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Wind River / Mountain tansymustard	Evaluation	Rationale
Angiosperms - Monocots
Chamisso's cottongrass	Evaluation	Rationale
Elliptic spikerush	Evaluation	Rationale
Foxtail sedge	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Hall's bulrush	Evaluation	Rationale
Largeflower tritelia	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Lesser panicled sedge	Evaluation	Rationale
Lesser roundleaved orchid	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Livid sedge	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Mountain lady's slipper	Evaluation	Rationale
Plains rough fescue	Evaluation	Rationale
Porter's false needlegrass	Evaluation	Rationale
Roundleaf orchid	Evaluation	Rationale
Simple bog sedge	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Slender cottongrass	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Stream orchid	Evaluation #1 \| #2 \| #3	Rationale
White adder's-mouth orchid	Evaluation	Rationale
Winding mariposa lily	Evaluation	Rationale
Yellow lady's slipper	Evaluation #1 \| #2\| #3 #4 \| #5	Rationale
Yellow widelip orchid	Evaluation #1 \| #2 \|#3	Rationale
Gymnosperms
Whitebark pine	Evaluation	Rationale
Ferns and Fern Allies
Club spikemoss	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Groundcedar	Evaluation	Rationale
Iowa moonwort	Evaluation #1 \| #2	Rationale
Peculiar moonwort	Evaluation	Rationale
Trianglelobe moonwort	Evaluation	Rationale
Non-vascular
Baltic sphagnum	Evaluation	Rationale
Sphagnum	Evaluation	Rationale

Sensitive Species List

ANIMALS

Amphibians

Birds

Fishes

Insects

Mammals

Molluscs

Reptiles

PLANTS

Angiosperms - Dicots

Angiosperms - Monocots

Gymnosperms

Ferns and Fern Allies

Non-vascular