Whitman Mission National Historic Site - Animals

The bald eagle is the only federally listed threatened or endangered wildlife species that has been observed within the NHS boundaries. There are no proposed or candidate species identified within the area of the NHS. There are nine species of concern that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has identified that may occur within the NHS area. Those species include the following: Columbia spotted frog, ferruginous hawk, fringed myotis bat, loggerhead shrike, northern sagebrush lizard, pale Townsend"s big-eared bat, small-footed myotis bat, western burrowing owl, and Yuma myotis bat. Species of concern receive no protection under the Endangered Species Act. These species could be proposed or listed sometime in the future and come under the scope of the Act. Information on wildlife is limited because park inventories have not been completed. Quantitative inventories of mammals, birds, invertebrates, reptiles, and amphibians are needed.