A pygmy rabbit being held by a member of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The Columbia Basin population of pygmy rabbits in Washington is extremely small and is designated as a Distinct Population Segment for protection under the U.S. Endangered species act according to the WDFW website.
August 5, 2025
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Keeping an eye on the Basin’s at-risk species
MOSES LAKE – A number of animal species in Washington State are listed as threatened or endangered on the state or federal level including species native to the Columbia Basin region including Grant and Adams Counties. “We protect them on our state land,” said Nicole Jordan from Region 2 of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. “There’s different categories, there’s endangered, protected and threatened, there’s protected and sensitive and there’s just protected in general.”