NJ "list"

[Chris J. Durden]

At 08:15  9/01/00 -0400, you wrote:
>	Since I suggested compiling the various state lists it was 
>logical that someone would ask me what NJ's list is.  I will find it and 
>send it, but  I'm not sure what its status is. 
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>At each round the list was whittled down further. 
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>As far as I know there is a list. But it does not become enforceable 
>until it goes through some additional processes of publication, comment 
>period, etc. 
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>The only ones I remember were Hesperia leonardus which is nominated for 
>"special concern" (two of us thought it was threatened). 
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  Presumably this is *H. leonardus stallingsi*. Do you have anything that
approaches *H. l. leonardus* in the northwest highlands?
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>and N. mitchelli (which will be listed as endangered, although it is 
>generally conceded that it has been extirpated for more than a decade. 
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  Surely there are some Pine Barrens specials too?
  I remember collecting at the bridge at the south end of the lake at
lakehurst in the days before the area became so obviously private. While
Sid Hessel watched I climbed up inside a white cedar, put my net out of the
tree and took two *Mitoura hesseli*. Just after that we met Ben Ziegler
coming down the trail.
  I tried to revisit the site about 4 years ago but it is not readily
accessible and the habitat does not look as fresh as it used to.
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>When it became known that Leonard's skipper might be listed a developer 
>agreed to set aside what amounts to a conservation easement, where the 
>only central NJ colony survives. Whether this will be sufficient to 
>protect this colony remains to be seen after the development begins 
>later this spring (2000). 
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>Some of the issues concerned what to do with species that are or were 
>only marginal in the state.  Is there any point in worry about a 
>marginal population of a species that is common and widespread in 
>adjacent states?  I am ambivalent about this.  I think it depends on the 
>nature of the local, marginal population?
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  Yes this question is our biggest problem with species listing in Texas.
.........Chris Durden
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>Mike Gochfeld
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