A distinct population segment (DPS) is the smallest division of a taxonomic species permitted to be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Species...

Plants; Revised Designation of Critical Habitat for the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Yellow Billed Cuckoo" (PDF). Federal Register. 85 (39)...

Environmental Protection Agency, groups steelhead and salmon into distinct population segments (DPS). There are currently 15 DPS for steelhead (Oncorhynchus...

Firehole River. Some local populations of specific subspecies, or in the case of steelhead, distinct population segments, are listed as either threatened...

currents and swimming up strong river currents. A number of distinct population segments of steelhead are endangered or threatened across the United States...

In total, nine distinct population segments are under the protection of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, with four population segments classified as...

2022, the USFWS published a final rule listing the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of the lesser prairie-chicken as endangered and the Northern...

three distinct population segments that are geographically isolated and genetically distinct from one another. The California tiger salamander distinct population...

(NMFS) received a petition from the Cowlitz Tribe to list a distinct population segment (DPS) of eulachon from Washington, Oregon, and California, (the...

Nevada Distinct Population Segment is estimated at 29 adults near Sonora Pass in California. The Southern Cascades Distinct Population Segment consists...

Coastal-Southern California Distinct Population Segment and Threatened Status With Section 4(d) Rule for the Sierra Nevada Distinct Population Segment". Federal Register...

area. The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service listed this distinct population segment of orcas as endangered, effective from 2005, under the Endangered...

contiguous United States distinct population segment. version 1.0 (PDF) (Report). Contiguous United States Distinct Population Segment. pp. 1–300. Archived...

lions to the endangered Southern California Distinct Population Segment of steelhead. The mountain lion population within the Santa Monica Mountains (which...

different categories of conservation that are based on habitat range, population size, habitat, threats, etc. Each category represents a different level...

recommendation that ESA listing was not warranted. The southern distinct population segment of bocaccio is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Species...

Publication 36. Its range is designated as the Humboldt River distinct population segment of O. c. henshawi by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Nevada...

Listing Priority Assignment Form for fluvial Arctic grayling (distinct population segment of the Upper Missouri River), commonly called Montana Arctic...

along the Atlantic Coast of North America. Identification of distinct population segments (DPS) is problematic because of sturgeons' ability to disperse...

Sea are designated as a "Puget Sound/Georgia Basin yelloweye Distinct Population Segment" which was listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species...

least concern, the US Fish & Wildlife Service considers this a distinct population segment, and thus merits protections under the Endangered Species Act...

JSTOR 41717657. Its range is designated as the Humboldt River distinct population segment of O. c. henshawi by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Nevada...

rockfish, like the bocaccio and vermillion (S. miniatus,) have a distinct population segment in the sound, which are at risk of overfishing. Many other fish...

gobies, arroyo chub, and the endangered Southern California Distinct Population Segment of steelhead. The Santa Clara River supports these species as...

The Southern California Steelhead Distinct Population Segment (DPS) occurs from the Santa Maria River to the Tijuana River at the United States and Mexican...

Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a final rule listing the Southern distinct population segment (DPS) of North American green sturgeon as a threatened species...

Northeast Pacific Eumetopias jubatus (Steller sea lion) Western Distinct Population Segment only (Alaska) Eumops floridanus (Florida bonneted bat) Geocapromys...

whale as a species, it still gives it a conservation status as a distinct population segment). Two species—the North Atlantic right whale (with only around...

Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and Removing This Distinct Population Segment From the Federal List of...

Central California Coast steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) distinct population segment. Natural waterfalls and the two major dams, Warm Springs (built...