B. National. 



1. United States. 



a. Present designated or proposed legal 

 protection or regulation: U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service : Penstemon lemhiensis is 

 currently included in Category 2 of the 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Notice of 

 Review (U.S. Department of Interior 1990), 

 under consideration for federal listing as 

 a threatened species. 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." 



U.S. Forest Service : P. lemhiensis is 

 currently included on the U.S. Forest 

 Service Region 1 sensitive species list 

 (U.S. Department of Agriculture 1988; Reel 

 et al . 1989) . Sensitive species are 

 "...those plant and animal species 

 identified by the Regional Forester for 

 which population viability is a concern, 

 as evidenced by: a.) (s) ignif icant 

 current or predicted downward trends in 

 population numbers or density," and/or 

 "b.) (s) ignif icant current or predicted 

 downward trends in habitat capability that 

 would reduce a species' existing 

 distribution" (Reel et al. 1989) . Through 

 its inclusion on the Region 1 sensitive 

 species list, P. lemhiensis has legal 

 protection under U.S. Forest Service 

 agency policies (W. Ruediger, pers. 

 comm. ) . 



b. Other current formal status 

 recommendations: The species is currently 

 listed as "threatened throughout range" 

 (global rank = G3) by The Nature 

 Conservancy. 



c. Review of past status: The species was 

 originally included in the "notice of 

 consideration" by the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service in 1975 (U.S. Department 



