Threatened, Endangered & Sensitive Species

Endangered species on National Forest System lands are managed under the National Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Species (TES) program, in coordination with Regional Offices, national forests and our partners.

The TES program assists field biologist, other staff personnel and line officers in attaining the Chief’s priorities and managing TES resources from a healthy ecosystem perspective. This includes recovery of threatened and endangered species and their habitats, conservation of sensitive species and their habitats, and providing for the diversity of plant and animal communities on National Forest System lands.

Program Initiative examples include:  Every Species Counts!, Carnivore Conservation, Great Plains TES Program, and Bats: Masters of the Night Sky. Initiatives are special emphasis activities done through a variety of habitat improvement, monitoring, analysis, conservation planning and coordination with other resources. The intent of TES initiatives is to help the Forest Service and our partners accomplish specific recovery and conservation objectives for TS species and their habitats.

The TES program includes management done for all threatened, endangered and designated sensitive species on National Forest System lands. Because TES species habitats are important for other species as well, close coordination is done with the Botany and Rare Plants, Fisheries and Wildlife programs, as well as with other Forest Service resource management programs.

TES Items of Interest:

• Bats & White-Nose Syndrome

• Interagency Special Status/ Sensitive Program (ISSSP)

• USFS Intermountain Region (R4) Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Species List

TES Training:

• USFS BPR Continuing Education for Resource Professionals site for training opportunities.

Related Initiatives & Partnerships:  

• Carnivore Conservation

• Bats: Masters of the Night Skies 

• Bring Back the Natives 

• Celebrating Wildflowers

Related Content:  

• BPR Planning

• PLANTS Database (NRCS-USDA) 

• NatureServe Explorer Database 

• US-FWS Endangered Species

  • Program

  • Endangered Species information by state

  • Section 7 Consultation

  • Section 7 Consultation Handbook 

• NOAA Fisheries: Endangered Species Conservation

  • Species Directory - TES Marine Species

Contact Us:  

• National & Regional Program Leaders

Regional TES sites:  

• R1 – Northern Region

• R2 – Rocky Mountain Region 

• R3 – Southwestern Region

• R4 – Intermountain Region

• R5 – Pacific Southwest Region

• R6 – Pacific Northwest Region

  • Sensitive Species

• R8 – Southern Region 

  • Every Species Counts 

  • Get Wild 

• R9 – Eastern Region 

• R10 – Alaska Region