Action timeline

December 15, 2004 – The Center and the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection filed a petition to protect the Tucson shovel-nosed snake under the Endangered  Species Act.

July 29, 2008 – Almost four years after our petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally announced that the Tucson shovel-nosed snake warrants federal protection. The agency began a one-year status review.