What Species Will Be Addressed by BDCP?

 

Covered species identified in the BDCP include endangered or sensitive terrestrial and aquatic species whose conservation and management will be provided by the Plan. The draft Conservation Strategy includes biological goals and objectives for 52 sensitive wildlife and plant species and 11 fish species, and identifies conservation measures to help in their recovery.

Fish Species:

  • Delta smelt
  • Longfin smelt
  • Winter-run Chinook salmon
  • Spring-run Chinook slamon
  • Fall-run and late fall-run Chinook salmon
  • Central Valley steelhead
  • Green sturgeon
  • White sturgeon
  • Sacramento splittail
  • River lamprey
  • Pacific lamprey
  • Plant and Wildlife Species:

  • San Joaquin kit fox
  • Riparian woodrat
  • Salt marsh harvest mouse
  • Riparian brush rabbit
  • Townsend’s big-eared bat
  • Suisun shrew
  • Tricolored blackbird
  • Suisun song sparrow
  • Yellow-breasted chat
  • Least Bell’s vireo
  • Western burrowing owl
  • Western yellow-billed cuckoo
  • California least tern
  • Greater sandhill crane
  • California black rail
  • California clapper rail
  • Swainson’s hawk
  • White-tailed kite
  • Giant garter snake
  • Western pond turtle
  • California red-legged frog
  • Western spadefoot toad
  • California tiger salamander
  • Lange’s metalmark butterfly
  • Valley elderberry longhorn beetle
  • Vernal pool tadpole shrimp
  • Conservancy fairy shrimp
  • Longhorn fairy shrimp
  • Vernal pool fairy shrimp
  • Midvalley fairy shrimp
  • California linderiella
  • Alkali milk-vetch
  • San Joaquin spearscale
  • Boggs Lake hedge-hyssop
  • Heckard’s peppergrass
  • Legenere
  • Heartscale
  • Brittlescale
  • Slough thistle
  • Suisun thistle
  • Soft bird’s-beak
  • Delta button-celery
  • Dwarf downingia
  • Contra Costa wallflower
  • Carquinez goldenbush
  • Delta tule pea
  • Suisun Marsh aster
  • Mason’s lilaeopsis
  • Delta mudwort
  • Antioch Dunes evening-primrose
  • Side-flowering skullcap
  • Caper-fruited tropidocarpum