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Plan Name: Black Lace Cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) Recovery Plan
Plan Status: Final
Plan Date: 18-Mar-87
Lead Agency: USFWS
Lead Office: Corpus Christi Ecological Services Field Office ( (361) 994-9005 )
Species Action Priority # Action # Action Description Action Status Est. Initiation Date Est. Completion Date Responsible Parties Work Type Labor Type Action Comments Implementation Activities
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 11 Enforce existing regulations Ongoing Current Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Law Enforcement Division Other: Regulations Internal Technical Assistance
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 1 121 Provide habitat protection through private landowners Ongoing Current Prior to FY 1995 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Realty, USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Acquisition: Management Agreement, Other Internal Technical Assistance In FY08, identified most recent landowners for BLC populations in Kleberg and Jim Wells Counties - initiated contact to ask for access - no replies to date. Dr. Liz Smith with TAMUCC, continues to work with these LO's who supported her Sect. 6 proposal to conduct research on the population
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 1 122 Obtain long-term protection of essential habitat Ongoing Current Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Realty Acquisition: Easement Internal Technical Assistance FY08: there is a Safe Harbor Agreement in place for the next 98 years which provides for searches for BLC and AV of impacts when habitat management is proposed - only applies to existing refugio populations and any other that might be located in north coastal bend counties.
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 131 Post no-trespassing signs Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Management: Land Use Contract
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 132 Monitor for grazing impacts Unknown Prior to FY 1995 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division, USFWS Regional Office 2 Research: Competition Species Expert Local botanist visited a BLC site in 2004 and indicated that some plants were uprooted by feral hogs and had been kicked over by cattle; no other disturbances had been noted. No formal research has been initiated.
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 133 Monitor for collecting impacts Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: General Species Expert In 1991, a Section 6 Final Report found that three subspecies including E.reichenbachii var. fitchii were heavily collected. At this time, there was still some taxonomic confusion about the distinction between spp albertii and fitchii; therefore, this species collected may have been Black lace (Final Report from TPWD 1991).
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 134 Monitor for disease or other natural impacts Ongoing Current FY 2010 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: Disease Species Expert Survey Ricardo Site. Starting Spring 2010
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 14 Develop and implement habitat management plans Ongoing Current Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Management: Habitat Maintenance and Manipulation Internal Field Assistance
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 15 Locate safe sites for potential reintroductions Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: Habitat Requirements Species Expert
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 16 Establish botanical garden populations Ongoing Current Prior to FY 1995 Desert Botanical Gardens, USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Management: Propagation Species Expert Tried to establish a population in 1990 with seedlings planted at CCBG but later survey attempts showed that invasive grasses took over. In 2004, seeds were from fruit were produced at Refugio Co. site which were collected and stored at DBG. Germination studies done on seedlings; they did not survive (2004). In 2006, seeds collected from fruits of Refugio Co. population and stored at DBG. And until FY08, seeds at DGB have been in long-term storage. In 2009, Sue Sill (botanist) and others looked at this population again and were unable to locate plants-totally overgrown with invasives.
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 17 Search for new populations within the range of the variety Ongoing Current Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division, Texas A&M University Kingsville Management: General, Research: Population Surveys Graduate Student, Species Expert FY08, TNC has been doing surveys for rare plants including BLC in the Refugio-Goliad Prairie but did not find BLC. In early 2010, graduate student and botanists went searching for a record of the Refugio population on the north side of Jaboncillos Creek-were not able to find this population; tall grasses were present. However, this survey did produce several new plants in the salt/creek bed just south of this recorded population.
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 21 Determine edaphic requirements for the variety Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: General Species Expert
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 22 Determine pollinators Planned FY 2013 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: Propagation Species Expert Pollinator observations at Kleberg site planned.
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 23 Study population dynamics of known populations Ongoing Current Prior to FY 1995 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division, USFWS Regional Office 2 Research: Population Surveys, Research: Habitat Requirements Species Expert In 2003, soils at the Refugio population were described along with associated woody and herbaceous vegetation.
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 3 Determine genetic relationships with closely related taxa Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: Genetics Species Expert
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 4 Develop a trade management plan for all cacti Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Management: General Internal Technical Assistance
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 3 51 Investigate feasibility of large scale production of cultivated seedlings Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: Propagation Species Expert
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 3 52 Develop procedures for clonal propagation Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Research: Propagation Species Expert
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 3 6 Determine delisting criteria Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Management: General Internal Field Assistance
Black lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii var. albertii) 2 7 Develop public awareness Unknown Prior to FY 1995 USFWS Regional Office 2, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Division Other: Information and Education Internal Technical Assistance
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