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species. These policies are intended to ensure the pratection of rare plants and animals <br />on sites with potential for long-term protection and management, and to expand the <br />populations on suitable sites. <br />The change proposed under amendment #62 would limit the consideration of rare plants <br />(for the purposes of determining protected sites} to species that are listed in the Plan. <br />The adopted list includes species on Lists 1 and 2 of the Oregon Natural Heritage <br />Program. <br />The Oregon Natural Heritage Program is a statewide system for tracking plant and animal <br />species of concern. ~t is a cooperative program of The Nature Oonservancy, the Oregon <br />Division of State Lands and other state agencies involved with identif cation and <br />protection of sensitive species. Every other year the ONHP produces a document called <br />"Rare, Threatened and Endangered Plants and Animals of Oregon". The document is <br />separated into sections on animals and plants, For both plants and animals, there are lists <br />numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4, These lists are produced through a consensus process of <br />participating scientists including both state and federal agency biologists as well as <br />"independent" biologists} at a bi-annual conference. List 1 includes species that are <br />threatened with extinction ar presumed to be extinct throughout their entire range List <br />1 generally includes federally listed and candidate species}. List 2 includes species that <br />are threatened with extirpation' or presumed to be extirpated from the state of Oregon. <br />List 3 includes species for which more information is needed before status can be <br />determined, but which may be threatened or endangered in Oregon or throughout their <br />range. List 4 contains species which are of concern, but are too common to be currently <br />considered threatened or endangered. <br />Only lists 1 and 2 contain species which are conf rmed to be threatened or endangered. <br />These two lists most closely match the intent of the proposed amendments to the <br />protection criterion for rare plants. The species, by List, which occur within wetlands in <br />west Eugene are shown below: <br />List 1 <br />Aster curtus <br />Erigeron decumbens var. decumbens <br />Horkelia congesta <br />Lomatium bradshawii <br />List 2 <br />Cicendia quadrangularis <br />white-topped aster <br />Willamette daisy <br />shaggy horkelia <br />Bradshaw's lomatium <br />timwort <br />~ "Extirpation" means eliminated or destroyed, in this case within a geographic area; distinguished from <br />"extinction" which means no longer found anywhere. <br />Text Amendments drdinance, Exhibit C (Refinement Plan Amendment Findings Page 5 <br />