What is the listing history of the Truckee barberry?
A. The Service proposed this plant as an endangered species in June 1976, along with approximately 1,700 plants. This plant list was assembled on the basis of comments and data received by the Smithsonian Institute and the Service, as a result of a list prepared by the Smithsonian of plants considered to be endangered, threatened or extinct in the United States. The final rule listing the Truckee barberry as endangered was published in the Federal Register in November 1979.In January 1997, the Service received a petition to delist this plant from the National Wilderness Institute. However, a one-year Congressional moratorium in April 1995 on all listing actions, a subsequent backlog of needed listing actions and funding limitations delayed this and other delisting actions. Under this new system, the priority went to species most in need, and actions on behalf of these species have delayed processing of the Truckee barberry delisting proposal until now.
