Legislature
This legislation allows for the identification, protection, and recovery of threatened and endangered birds, insects, fish, reptiles, mammals, crustaceans, flowers, grasses, and trees.
What is the Endangered Species act?
Part of the deer family, was extirpated from the state due to market hunting, habitat loss, and lack of wildlife protection laws.
What is elk?
A species is no longer present on the planet
What is extinct?
Nutritious substances that people or animals eat in order to maintain life and growth. Ex. Nuts, berries, meat
What is food?
The insecticide that impacted several species of birds of prey in the 1960s
What is DDT?
The state agency responsible for managing and protecting wildlife and their habitats while promoting hunting and trapping for current and future generations
What is the Pennsylvania Game Commission?
The only diurnal species out of 8 total in Pennsylvania, nest on reclaimed strip mines, listed as endangered due to its small breeding population and limited distribution
What is Short-eared Owl?
The variation of life on earth
A colorless liquid that is the basis of the fluids of living organisms
What is water?
The species in the cover image of the Story Map
What is Allegheny Woodrat?
The year Congress passed the ESA.
What is 1973?
White marsh bird listed as endangered in Pennsylvania
What is Great Egret?
How different species rely on one another to fulfill their basic needs
What is interdependence?
A place giving temporary protection from the elements or danger. Ex. a den, nest, or cave
What is shelter?
Two species that have been extirpated from Pennsylvania and have not been recovered
What is Timber Wolf and Mountain Lion?
The two federal agencies that administer the Endangered Species Act
What is USFWS and NOAA?
Experienced a dramatic recovery after being nearly wiped out due to DDT, was moved from the endangered to threatened list in 2019 in Pennsylvania
What is Peregrine Falcon?
When a species is no longer found throughout its range, but still exists elsewhere in the world.
What is extirpated?
An area where the necessities of life must be found in order to maintain survival. Larger organisms need more of this than smaller organisms.
What is space?
A non-regulatory, proactive conservation blueprint to prevent species of greatest conservation need from requiring federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
What is Pennsylvania's Wildlife Action Plan?
The two pieces of legislature that protect animals in Pennsylvania
What is Title 34 Game and Wildlife Code and Title 58 Pennsylvania Code?
An endangered mammal in Pennsylvania, insectivore, true hibernator.
What is Indiana Bat?
Species listed as threatened or endangered
What is species of greatest conservation need?
The place or environment where a species naturally or lives and grows. It satisfies the 4 main needs a species requires to survive.
What is a habitat?
The area from which Rocky Mountain elk were transported, and reintroduced to Pennsylvania.
What is Yellowstone National Park?