1. Reclassification and Delisting A Growth Industry (and the focus of our next workshop?)
Congress envisioned an accurate list

2. Practical Reasons Reduce regulatory burden Allocation of resources ($)
Remove regulation by delisting
Target regulation through 4(d) rule
Allocation of resources ($)
Acknowledge partners
Show our progress
Credibility
See previous slides notes

3. Envisioned by Congress
4(c)(1) – revise list from time to time
4(c)(2) – 5-year reviews
4(b)(3)(B)(iii) – expeditious progress adding & removing from List
Congress envisioned an accurate list

4. Regulatory Basis for Delisting
Recovery
Recovered = no longer meet the definition of threatened or endangered
Recovery criterion are guidance
Extinction
Original data “in error”
E.g., changes in taxonomy
Picture - Passenger Pigeon
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914
Downlist
Arrest ongoing severe decline
Push extinction horizon beyond near-term, into foreseeable future
Remember T is still in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future
Recovery
Recovery = no longer T or E.
Data error is usually reserved for taxonomic changes – finding more is usually considered the result of a recovery action and usually falls into the recovery category.
Uplisting
Requires listing dollars. Practice says we should spend listing dollars on listing new species, rather than uplisting which provides minimal tangible benefits, so rarely done (rarely floats to the top – grizzly bear uplistings have been warranted but precluded for over 20 years).

5. Regulatory Basis for Delisting
Recovery
Recovered = no longer meet the definition of threatened or endangered
Recovery criterion are guidance
Extinction
Original data “in error”
E.g., changes in taxonomy
Picture - Passenger Pigeon
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914
Downlist
Arrest ongoing severe decline
Push extinction horizon beyond near-term, into foreseeable future
Remember T is still in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future
Recovery
Recovery = no longer T or E.
Data error is usually reserved for taxonomic changes – finding more is usually considered the result of a recovery action and usually falls into the recovery category.
Uplisting
Requires listing dollars. Practice says we should spend listing dollars on listing new species, rather than uplisting which provides minimal tangible benefits, so rarely done (rarely floats to the top – grizzly bear uplistings have been warranted but precluded for over 20 years).

6. Regulatory Basis for Delisting
Recovery
Recovered = no longer meet the definition of threatened or endangered
Recovery criterion are guidance
Extinction
Original data “in error”
E.g., changes in taxonomy
Picture - Passenger Pigeon
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914
Downlist
Arrest ongoing severe decline
Push extinction horizon beyond near-term, into foreseeable future
Remember T is still in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future
Recovery
Recovery = no longer T or E.
Data error is usually reserved for taxonomic changes – finding more is usually considered the result of a recovery action and usually falls into the recovery category.
Uplisting
Requires listing dollars. Practice says we should spend listing dollars on listing new species, rather than uplisting which provides minimal tangible benefits, so rarely done (rarely floats to the top – grizzly bear uplistings have been warranted but precluded for over 20 years).

7. Regulatory Basis for Delisting
Recovery
Recovered = no longer meet the definition of threatened or endangered
Recovery criterion are guidance
Extinction
Original data “in error”
E.g., changes in taxonomy
Picture - Passenger Pigeon
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914
Downlist
Arrest ongoing severe decline
Push extinction horizon beyond near-term, into foreseeable future
Remember T is still in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future
Recovery
Recovery = no longer T or E.
Data error is usually reserved for taxonomic changes – finding more is usually considered the result of a recovery action and usually falls into the recovery category.
Uplisting
Requires listing dollars. Practice says we should spend listing dollars on listing new species, rather than uplisting which provides minimal tangible benefits, so rarely done (rarely floats to the top – grizzly bear uplistings have been warranted but precluded for over 20 years).

8. Delisted Species

9. Status of 5-year Reviews
Number of listed species (all US, domestic) = 1586
Number of these species with 5-year reviews = 1155
Number of species without 5-year reviews:
Nationally = 423
Southwest Region (R2) = 63
Mountain-Prairie Region (R6) = 15
Completed 5-year reviews:
No change in status
Delisting due to error
Delisting due to extinction
Delisting due to recovery
Delisting Total
Downlist to T
Revision of listed entity
Uplist to E
Total Downlistand Delist
National
1077 3 9 12 24 35 6 13 59 R2 89 1 4 2 R6 38

10. Questions: How do we better focus on downlisting and delisting
National work plan (5-year reviews & potential rulemaking)
What percentage of the recovery budget should go towards:
On the ground recovery action (including funding to Partnerships)
5-year reviews
Rulemaking
How do we prioritize rulemakings
Delisting vs. downlisting
Extinct vs. recovery or error
Partner investment & regulatory burden
How do we prioritize 5-year reviews
Species without 5-year reviews vs. redos
Picture - Passenger Pigeon
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914
Downlist
Arrest ongoing severe decline
Push extinction horizon beyond near-term, into foreseeable future
Remember T is still in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future
Recovery
Recovery = no longer T or E.
Data error is usually reserved for taxonomic changes – finding more is usually considered the result of a recovery action and usually falls into the recovery category.
Uplisting
Requires listing dollars. Practice says we should spend listing dollars on listing new species, rather than uplisting which provides minimal tangible benefits, so rarely done (rarely floats to the top – grizzly bear uplistings have been warranted but precluded for over 20 years).

11. Potential State Role: Coordination on National work plan
Get Bill to plan another work shop
Collaborate on:
New Science (e.g., taxonomy, distribution, abundance and trends)
Implement Conservation Actions
Post Delisting Management:
Regulatory protection
Conservation Strategies
Post delisting Monitoring:
Picture - Passenger Pigeon
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914
Downlist
Arrest ongoing severe decline
Push extinction horizon beyond near-term, into foreseeable future
Remember T is still in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future
Recovery
Recovery = no longer T or E.
Data error is usually reserved for taxonomic changes – finding more is usually considered the result of a recovery action and usually falls into the recovery category.
Uplisting
Requires listing dollars. Practice says we should spend listing dollars on listing new species, rather than uplisting which provides minimal tangible benefits, so rarely done (rarely floats to the top – grizzly bear uplistings have been warranted but precluded for over 20 years).

12. Thoughts? Picture - Passenger Pigeon
Martha, thought to be the world's last passenger pigeon, died on September 1, 1914
Downlist
Arrest ongoing severe decline
Push extinction horizon beyond near-term, into foreseeable future
Remember T is still in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future
Recovery
Recovery = no longer T or E.
Data error is usually reserved for taxonomic changes – finding more is usually considered the result of a recovery action and usually falls into the recovery category.
Uplisting
Requires listing dollars. Practice says we should spend listing dollars on listing new species, rather than uplisting which provides minimal tangible benefits, so rarely done (rarely floats to the top – grizzly bear uplistings have been warranted but precluded for over 20 years).