Foothill sedge (Carex tumulicola) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 10

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Existing Protection or Other Status Designations

Carex tumulicola is not covered under CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), the Endangered Species Act (USA) or the IUCN Red Data Book. Globally, it is ranked G4 (NatureServe 2005).

Carex tumulicola is red-listed and ranked S1 (critically imperiled) in British Columbia, the only Canadian jurisdiction where it occurs. The species can be added to the list of species for protection under the BC Wildlife Amendment Act (2004). In the U.S., it is ranked S1 in Idaho and SNR (unranked) in California, Oregon and Washington. Eight of the ten Canadian populations occur either in municipal parks or on DND or Parks Canada Agency land, thereby affording them some measure of effective protection over the short term. However, no specific management plans are in place to protect C. tumulicola at any of these sites.