Threatened and Endangered Species

Colorado has many wildlife species on its threatened and endangered list, including several species each of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, and mollusks. You can find information on each of these species at the Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s Species Profiles webpage.  You can also read about Colorado’s endangered wildlife and their relationship with other resources by accessing any of a number of reports and documents available from our library, including:

• Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons (2010)
• Colorado Threatened and Endangered Species List Update (2010)
• Organizing for Endangered and Threatened Species Habitat in the Platte River Basin (2003)
• Conservation Plan for Grassland Species of Colorado (2003)
• Estimating Impacts of Highway Projects on Select Rare, Sensitive, or Declining Species on Colorado’s Central Shortgrass Prairie (2002)
• Federal Threatened and Endangered Species and Habitat Conservation (2001)
• Wildlife in Danger (2001, previous editions 1989, 1986, 1983, 1978)
• Species Report Card (1999)
• Platte River Endangered Species Partnership (1998)
• Briefing Report, Platte River Endangered Species Program (1997)
• Colorado and the Recovery Program for the Endangered Fish of the Upper Colorado (1997)
• Biodiversity Protection (1996)
• Endangered Species Management: Planning Our Future (1995)
• Colorado Nongame Wildlife Regulations, Including Threatened & Endangered Species (1994)
• Threatened and Endangered Species of Colorado (1993)
• Colorado’s Nongame and Endangered Wildlife (1993)
• Swimming Upstream: The Endangered Fish of the Colorado River (1993)
• Wildlife in Danger (video, 1992)
• The Prohibition Against Taking Endangered Wildlife In Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (1990)
• The Endangered Species Act and Water Development in the South Platte Basin (1985)
• Endangered and Threatened Fishes of the Upper Colorado River Basin (1983)

We also have many reports on individual species, such as wolves, lynx, blackfooted ferret, plains sharp-tailed grouse, boreal toad, mountain plover, meadow jumping mice, Colorado River cutthroat trout, Rio Grande sucker, Rocky Mountain wood frog, and many others, so search our web catalog for resources.