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• Threatened and Endangered Species  
  US Fish and Wildlife presents lists, maps, database information as well as news briefs and legislation.  The USFWS has the most dependable listing (TESS) of animals and plants. Other sites are more likely to be outdated, still listing de-listed species or not yet listing newly listed species.
• Marine Species
  Protected Resources Office of National Marine Fisheries  Service  lists marine animals that are protected, proposed, candidate, recovered, and depleted. 
• Threatened Plant Species
  National Biology Information Infrastructure.  Seventeen (17) flora database including Aquatic , Wetland, and Invasive Plant Database and Threatened Plants Database.

• Listing and legislation
  US  Fish and Wildlife Office of Migratory Bird Management.
• Bird Population Studies
  USGS Paxutent Wildlife Research Center provides information on bird species, amphibians and migratory birds.
• Species Management Abstracts 
  Wings of America.  This site contains species management abstracts on select species of birds. These abstracts contain information such as breeding season, reproduction, habitat, etc.

• Marine Species
  Protected Resources Office of National Marine Fisheries  Service.  Lists marine animals that are protected, proposed, candidate, recovered, and depleted. 
• West Coast Salmon
  Information on one of largest listings to occur in an urban area.

• Plant Databases
  National Biology Information Infrastructure.  Seventeen (17) flora database including Aquatic , Wetland, and Invasive Plant Database and Threatened Plants Database.
• Plant Database
  USDA.  "The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information. PLANTS reduces costs by minimizing duplication and making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines."

• GAP
  National Biological Survey (USGS). A GIS assisted program that intends to provide current and projected measures of biodiversity in managed areas as a basis for managing conservation lands. This site is mostly text about how this could be done, with some textual references to case studies.