PRESENT LEGAL OR OTHER FORMAL STATUS 



1. FEDERAL STATUS 



a. U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE: ClavtonJa 

 lanceolata var. f lava is currently included 

 in Category 2 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service Notice of Review (U.S. Department of 

 Interior 1985) , under consideration for 

 federal listing as a threatened taxon. 

 Category 2 taxa are those "...for which 

 information now in possession of the Service 

 indicates that proposing to list them as 

 endangered or threatened species is possibly 

 appropriate, but for which substantial data 

 on biological vulnerability and threat (s) are 

 not currently known or on file to support the 

 immediate preparation of rules" (= federal 

 candidate taxa) . 



b. U.S. FOREST SERVICE: Claytonia lanceolata 

 var. flava is currently included on the list 

 of sensitive plant species for Region 1 

 (Northern Region) of the U.S. Forest Service. 



Agency objectives and policy in the 1984 

 Forest Service Manual provide for the 

 management and protection of sensitive 

 species (Section 2670.32). Under these 

 guidelines, the U.S. Forest Service is to 

 "(a) void or minimize impacts to species whose 

 viability has been identified as a concern" 

 (2670.32.3), and is to "(e)stablish 

 objectives for Federal candidate species, in 

 cooperation with the FWS...and the states" 

 (2670.32.5) . 



2. STATE: Claytonia lanceolata var. flava is 

 currently listed by the Montana Natural Heritage 

 Program (Shelly 1988) as "critically imperiled in 

 the state" (state rank = SI) . It was recommended 

 for listing as "threatened" (any species that is 

 likely to become an endangered species within the 

 foreseeable future throughout all or a significant 

 portion of its range in the state) by the Montana 

 Rare Plant Project (Lesica et al. 1984). 



These state ranks do not currently provide any 

 direct legal protection for C. lanceolata var. 

 flava . Through its inclusion on the Region 1 

 sensitive plant list, the taxon has legal 

 protection under U.S. Forest Service agency 

 policies (W. Ruediger, pers. comm.). 



