(1) Shall conduct investigations of plant species native to this state and determine whether any such species is a threatened species or an endangered species.
(2) By rule, shall establish and publish, and from time to time may revise, a list of plant species that are threatened species or endangered species.
(3) By rule, shall establish programs for the protection and conservation of plant species that are threatened species or endangered species. As used in this subsection, "conservation" means the use of methods and procedures necessary to bring a species to the point at which the measures provided under ORS 564.105 to 564.120 are no longer necessary. The methods and procedures include, but are not limited to, activities associated with scientific resources management such as research, census, law enforcement, habitat acquisition and maintenance, propagation and transplantation.
(4) By rule, shall establish a system of permits for scientific taking of threatened species and endangered species under terms and conditions that the director determines will minimize the impact on the species taken.
(5) Shall cooperate with the State Fish and Wildlife Commission in carrying out the provisions of ORS 496.172.
(6) Shall adopt administrative rules to carry out the provisions of ORS 564.105 to 564.120.
(7) Shall set priorities for establishing programs under this section after consideration of available funds and the immediacy and seriousness of the threat to any listed species. [1987 c.686 §9; 2009 c.11 §77]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food
Chapter 564 - Wildflowers; Threatened or Endangered Plants
Section 564.020 - Wildflower protection.
Section 564.040 - Department list of additional protected wildflowers.
Section 564.100 - Definitions for ORS 564.100 to 564.135.
Section 564.105 - Responsibility to protect and conserve native plants; rules.
Section 564.110 - Listing threatened or endangered species; rules.
Section 564.120 - Transactions in threatened or endangered species; restrictions; prohibition.
Section 564.135 - Effect of law on commercial forestland or private land; effect on other laws.