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Colorado

Total Number of Listed and Candidate Species = 45

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Endangered & Threatened Species
Birds (6)
Eagle, bald - T Crane, whopping - E Plover, piping (interior) - T
Tern, least (interior) - E Mexican spotted owl - T Southwestern willow flycatcher - E
Mammals (5)
Ferret, black-footed - E Bear, grizzly - T Wolf, gray - E
Preble’s meadow jumping mouse - T Canada Lynx - T
Plants (13)
Beardtongue, penland - E Cactus, Mesa Verde - T Cactus, Unita Basin hookless - T
Milk-vetch, Mancos - E Milk-vetch, Osterhout- E Phacelia, North Park - E
Wild-buckwheat, clay-loving - E Tresses, Ute ladies' - T Twinpod, Dudley Bluffs - T
Colorado butterfly plant - T Dudley Bluffs bladderpod - T Knowlton cactus - E
Penland alpine fen mustard - T
Fishes (5)
Bonytail chub - E(CH) Humpback chub - E(CH) Colorado squawfish - E(CH)
Trout, greenback cutthroat - T Sucker, razorback - E(CH)
Insects (2)
Butterfly, Uncompahgre fritillary - E Skipper, pawnee montane - T
Total Endangered = 16
Total Threatened = 15
Proposed & Candidate Animal Species
Mammals (2)
Swift fox - C Black-tailed prairie dog - C
Birds (4)
Mountain plover - C Lesser Prairie Chicken - C Sharptailed grouse - C
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - C
Amphibeans (1)
Boreal western toad -  C
Fishes (1)
Arkansas darter - C
Total Proposed = 0
Total Candidate = 8
Proposed & Candidate Plant Species
Sleeping Ute milk-vetch - C Slender moonwort - C Parachute beardtongue - C
Graham beardtongue - C White River beardtongue - C De Beque phacelia - C
Total Proposed = 0
Total Candidate = 6
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