Fall 2026 Newsletter

Highlights

• Mapper has been added! This new tool allows users to visualize listed species' ranges and use sites (like UDLs and NLCD data layers) and gives users the ability to save and share map views. Users can see all species with range data for a specific location or can use filters to view only a specific subset of species (e.g., Texas amphibians).  
• Species data has been fully migrated from Gopher, including all SOS data and capabilities. ‘Public’ users of Lens can view a species page and see population details, information on critical habitat, a mapper view for range and critical habitat data, the species full SOS profiles, and any Biological Evaluations that referenced the species.
• In the Mitigation Tracker we have added the ability to sort by use sites and FESTF members now have the ability to download the spreadsheet style representation of entered decision data.

Speaking of Lens … since its launch in February:

• 23,000 (non-bot) page views across 2,693 sessions
• To date, 123 accounts have been created
• 101 from member companies
• 2 from Federal Agencies
• 7 from State Lead Agencies
• 13 academic, others
• 498 distinct users / 44 returning users
• Engagement: ~6 minutes per active user per session

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What's going on at EPA?

Recent Conventional Pesticide Final Decisions

There were no conventional pesticide final decisions posted to Regulations.gov in the fourth quarter of FY’26.  

Note that in addition to these conventional pesticide final registration decisions, there were 7  final registration decisions posted to Regulations.gov for non-conventional pesticides (between July 9th and October 5^th, 2026). These included the following decision for an active ingredient with listed species-related mitigations on final labels:

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What's new at US FWS?

FWS - Recent Updates to Species Status Assessments (as of 10/9/2026)

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