They were later downgraded to "threatened," and in 1999 to "species of special concern".
Environmental officials say the waterways provide drinking water or are home to threatened or endangered species.
Some of it is home to threatened wildlife, and some could be converted into parkland.
"Hopefully within the next five years I anticipate the peregrine falcon coming down from endangered to threatened".
But at the White House, the optimism of Saturday gave way to worry when the Republicans, especially Mr. Boehner, objected to threatened cuts in military spending.
"When the heavy rains come, soil washes into rivers and into the reef, smothering corals and seagrass meadows, which are home to threatened turtles and dugong," he said.
For 2008, the government budgeted $45.7 million for protecting people at risk of assassination, of which about a third goes to threatened union members.
The supremacist, Donald Bruce McAninch, 45, pleaded not guilty to "threatened use of certain weapons of mass destruction," mail theft and mail fraud.
His work on swift foxes, once Canada's most endangered carnivore, was so successful that its conservation status was "downgraded" in 2012 from endangered to threatened - a rare occurrence.
The blazes are occurring in the peatland forests of Kalimantan and Sumatra, which is a unique wetland ecosystem home to threatened species.
Since its inception, the Office of Emergency Management has responded to thousands of emergencies, from West Nile virus to threatened transit strikes.
