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Petitions & Comments

Public Comment Opposing Revisions to the Endangered Species Act
Xerces Society public comment on ESA definition of “harm”
Scientist Letter of Support for Colorado House Bill 24-1117
Petition to List the Morrison bumble bee (Bombus morrisoni) as an Endangered Species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to List the Large Marble Butterfly (Euchloe ausonides) as a Threatened Species and the Large Marble Type Subspecies (Euchloe ausonides ausonides) as an Endangered Species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition for Protection of the Southwest Spring Firefly Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition For Protection Of Florida Intertidal Firefly Under The U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition for Protection of the Loopy Five Firefly Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition for Protection of the Mysterious Lantern Firefly Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Letter of Support for the MONARCH Act of 2021
Letter of Support for the Monarch and Pollinator Highway Act of 2021
Comments on the Draft Environmental Assessments for Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program
Endangered Species Act Petition for Siuslaw Hairy-Necked Tiger Beetle
Rulemaking Petition to Regulate Crop Seeds Treated with Neonicotinoids and Other Systemic Insecticides
Petition to list western ridged mussel as an endangered species
Petition for the Emergency Listing of the Bethany Beach Firefly (Photuris bethaniensis)
Petition seeking regulation of bumble bee movement (January 12, 2010)
Comments in response to the positive 90-day finding the Service issued for the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) on September 18, 2018 (FWS-RJ-ES-2015-0112)
Letter to APHIS PPQ: Follow-up to June 23, 2014 bumble bee meeting
Letter of support for the legal petition seeking Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection for monarch butterflies
Scientist letter of support to protect the monarch butterfly as a Threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
FAQs on the Monarch Butterfly Endangered Species Act Petition
Petition for Protection of the Monarch Butterfly Under the Endangered Species Act
Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief
Comments to FWS on the Draft Environmental Assessment for Mosquito Control at Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Letter of support for a multi-agency monarch butterfly recovery initiative
Notice of Intent to Pursue Legal Action for Failure to Make Required Ninety-Day Finding on Petition to List the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee as Endangered
Letter to request an update on January 12, 2010 Petition to Regulate the Movement of Commercial Bumble Bees
Concerns regarding negative environmental impacts of proposed adulticiding and larviciding at Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Petition to list the rusty patched bumble bee Bombus affinis (Cresson), 1863 as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list the western glacier stonefly, Zapada glacier (Baumann & Gaufin, 1971) an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Sixty-Day Notice of Intent to Sue for Violations of the Endangered Species Act and Administrative Procedure Act in the Promulgation of the Final Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for the Salt Creek Tiger Beetle (Dec. 16, 2010)
Petition to list the Gila mayfly, Lachlania dencyanna (Koss, 1970) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list the straight stonefly (Capnia lineata Hanson, 1943) and the Idaho snowfly (Capnia zukeli Hanson, 1943) as endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list Leona's little blue butterfly Philotiella leona as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list the Arapahoe snowfly (Capnia arapahoe, Nelson and Kondratieff 1988) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list the Sand Verbena Moth (Copablepharon fuscum) under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list the Bay skipper (Euphyes bayensis) under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Comments on Docket No. FWS-R6-ES-2008-0131 (ESA Status Reviews for 29 Mountain-Prairie Species, October 19, 2009)
Comments to USDA APHIS PPQ on 2009 EA for potential grasshopper suppression programs to be conducted on rangeland in Klamath County (EA: OR-09-02)
Letter of support for proposed Laguna Mountains skipper conservation efforts
Petition to list two species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bees (Hylaeus mana and Hylaeus kuakea) as endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list two species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bees Hylaeus anthracinus and Hylaeus longiceps as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list one species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus hilaris) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list one species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bee Hylaeus assimulans as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list one species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bee Hylaeus facilis as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the Lange's metalmark (Apodemia mormo langei)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for Serpentine Soil Species of the San Francisco Bay Area [Bay checkerspot (Euphydryas editha bayensis)]
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for the El Segundo Blue Butterfly (Euphilotes battoides allyni)
Comments on Proposed Rule to Amend Part 402 of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations Implementing Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973
Scott Hoffman Black Written Testimony--The Danger of Deception: Do Endangered Species have a Chance? (U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources Oversight Hearing, May 21, 2008)
Comments on the Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the Endangered Salt Creek Tiger Beetle (March 18, 2008)
Xerces 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation--Palos Verdes blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for the White abalone (Haliotis sorenseni)
Comments on Olympic National Park Fire Management Plan Environmental Assessment (November 11, 2002)
Comments on Oregon Department of Agriculture Gypsy Moth Eradication Program: Environmental Assessment for Jackson and Multnomah Counties, February 12, 2001
Comments on Site-Specific Environmental Assessments Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program, (UT-01-06, UT-02-06, UT-03-06, UT-04-06, UT-05-06, and UT-06-06), 2006 (March 20, 2006)
Comments on Site-Specific Nevada Environmental Assessments Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program 2006 (March 20, 2006)
Comments on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the Bruneau Hot Springsnail (Pyrgulopsis bruneauensis); Federal Register: January 9, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 6) Page 1688-1689
Comments on the Jasper Fire "Value Recovery" Project--Black Hills Mountain Snails
Comments on APHIS Docket No. 95-095-2: Plant Pest Regulations
Comments on the Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the Endangered Salt Creek Tiger Beetle
Comments on Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) pollination of field crops in the state of California. California Environmental Quality Act Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration (January 18, 2007).
Comments on the Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the Morro Shoulderband Snail (65 Fed. Reg. 42962) and the Draft Economic Analysis for the Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the Morro Shoulderband Snail (65 Fed. Reg. 69896)
Comments on Docket OPP-00678B (Comment on Implications of Revised Bt Corn Reassessment for Regulatory Decisions Affecting These Products, and on Potential Elements of Regulatory Options, August 28, 2001)
Comments on USDA APHIS's Idaho Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program Proposed Action 2004 (December 15, 2003)
Comments on efforts to conserve native frogs in high Sierra Nevada lakes via the removal of introduced species of trout
Potential effects of the proposed West Eugene Parkway on populations of the Fender's blue butterfly found in the West Eugene Wetlands Refuge (6 March 2002)
Comments on Environmental Assessment, Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program, Wyoming, EA Number WY-06-01 (March 20, 2006)
Written Testimony from the Xerces Society on Senate Bill 606 (March 28, 2001)
Comments on Environmental Assessments Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program, Western South Dakota EA Number: SD06-01 (April 21, 2006)
Xerces Society comments for the roadless area management state petition proposal [Docket Number: 04-16191]
Pawnee Montane Skipper Butterfly Recovery Plan
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the Blackburn's Sphinx Moth (Manduca blackburni)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Kern Primrose Sphinx Moth Recovery Plan (Draft)
Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery (Lycaeides melissa samueli) Technical/Agency Draft
Petition to list the Mardon skipper butterfly (Polites mardon) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for St. Francis' satyr (Neonympha mitchellii francisci)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Revised Recovery Plan for the Oregon silverspot (Speyeria zerene hippolyta)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List Seven Foreign Species of Swallowtail Butterflies as Threatened or Endangered
Myrtle's silverspot (Speyeria zerene myrtleae)--Completed Multi-Species Recovery Plan
Schaus swallowtail (Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus) Revised Recovery Plan--excerpt from the Multi-Species Recovery Plan for South Florida
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for St. Francis' satyr (Neonympha mitchellii francisci)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Revised Recovery Plan for the Oregon silverspot (Speyeria zerene hippolyta)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List Seven Foreign Species of Swallowtail Butterflies as Threatened or Endangered
Xerces Society Comments on the 90-Day Finding for a Petition to List the Island Marble Butterfly as Threatened or Endangered; Federal Register: February 13, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 29)
Myrtle's silverspot (Speyeria zerene myrtleae)--Completed Multi-Species Recovery Plan
Schaus swallowtail (Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus) Revised Recovery Plan--excerpt from the Multi-Species Recovery Plan for South Florida
Mitchell's satyr (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)--Completed Recovery Plan 1998
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the Quino checkerspot (Euphydryas editha quino)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the Quino checkerspot (Euphydryas editha quino)
Comments for Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly 5-year review
Uncompahgre Fritillary Recovery Plan (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Petition to emergency list Taylor's (Whulge) checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha taylori) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the Lotis blue (Lycaeides idas lotis)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the Smith's Blue Butterfly (Euphilotes enoptes smithi)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for the Mission blue (Icaricia icarioides missionensis)--Draft Recovery Plan
Red List Profile: Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini): 2005 Bombus franklini
Petition for a Rule to list the Dakota Skipper (Hesperia dacotae) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act 16 USC 1531 et seq. (1973 as amended) and for the designation of Critical Habitat
Petition to emergency list Susan's Purse Making Caddisfly (Ochrotrichia susanae) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition for a Rule to list the Black Hills mountainsnail (Oreohelix cooperi) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act 16 USC 1531 et seq. (1973 as amended) and for the designation of Critical Habitat
Petition to list the Jackson Lake springsnail (Pyrgulopsis robusta), Harney Lake springsnail (Pyrgulopsis hendersoni), and Columbia springsnail (Pyrgulopsis new species 6) as Threatened or Endangered
Petition to list the Sand Mountain blue butterfly (Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana) as a threatened or endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Petition to list the island marble butterfly, Euchloe ausonides insulanus (Guppy & Shepard, 2001) as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act