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The Dakota skipper has experienced declining populations from destruction and modification of native prairie for grazing, herbicide use and building. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed the Dakota skipper on the Candidate list for protections under the Endangered Species Act from 1975 to 2014, [3] and it has been petitioned twice for protection under the Endangered Species Act in 1994 ...
Oarisma poweshiek, the Poweshiek skipperling, [3] is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers). The range of this species in Canada is restricted to southeastern Manitoba, and in the United States it historically ranged from the Dakotas to the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
Species: A. arogos. ... the arogos skipper or beard-grass skipper, is an endangered species of butterfly of the ... south-east North Dakota south to southern Texas ...
A number of endangered and threatened species occur in the area, including the western prairie fringed orchid [1] and Dakota skipper. [2] One of Minnesota's only wild elk herds utilizes the area as well. [3]
This endangered cetacean is not only the smallest porpoise species, but the most rare. Where there were once thousands of vaquitas swimming in the sea, today there may only be about 10 individuals ...
The species — several birds, mussels, two species of fish and the Little Mariana fruit bat last seen in Guam in 1968 — have been listed as endangered for decades, according to the U.S. Fish ...
This week's featured article is "The Endangered Species Act at 50" by Tate Watkins.This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.. Music credits: "Deep in Thought ...
Federally threatened animal species: Piping plover (Charadrius melodus), except Great Lakes watershed; Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) Skipper, Dakota (Hesperia dacotae) Extirpated federally endangered animal species: Gray wolf, extirpated from Iowa, but occasionally visits from Minnesota or Wisconsin. Locally extinguished ...