endangered species act history

• Congress and charismatic megafauna: a legislative history of the Endangered Species Act.

The last; word of ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: `What good is it?' ... If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built somethin...

• Environmental Law
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 2, June 1999

• Draft Policy on Interpretation of the Phrase “Significant Portion of Its Range” in the Endangered Species Act's Definitions of “Endangered Species” and “Threatened Species”

We, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively, the Services), announce a draft policy to provide our interpretation of the phrase ``significant portion of its range'' in the Endangered Species Act's (Act's) definitions of ``endangered species'' and ``threatened species.'' The purpose of this notice is to provide a draft interpretation and application of ``significant portion of its range'' that reflects a permissible reading of the law and its legislative history and minimizes undesirable policy outcomes, while fulfilling the conservation purposes of the Act. We seek public comments on this draft policy. It is our intent to publish a final policy that will provide a consistent standard for interpretation of the phras...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 76987, December 09, 2011
• Notices
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Letters to the Editor

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT ALMOST EXTINCT Last week, more than a hundred New Mexico scientists became a part of history. A letter, with almost 6,000 signatures from scientists around the country, was delivered to every U.S. senator with the plea to save our Endangered Species Act. If new, proposed legislation is approved by the Senate, our Endangered Species Act would be greatly reduced, limiting habitat protection, giving listing powers to bureaucrats, and requiring empirical data for listing species, meaning that all other data, such as population modeling and genetic data, would be useless in determining the needed protection for species. Scientists do not want to see that happen, and as concerned citizens of New Mexico, we should push our senators to support and strengthen the Endangere...

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• March 14, 2006

• National Assn. of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife, 551 U.S. (2007)

...Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) requires federal agencie...S. 19, 31 (2001). . . This history of the regulation also supports the reading to whi...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Federal Judge Orders Salmon Plan; U.S. Officials Get a Year to Draft Recovery Strategy

PORTLAND - A federal judge waded back into the debate over balancing salmon and dams Friday, ordering the Bush administration to work with conservation groups, tribes and Northwest states to draft a plan that complies with the Endangered Species Act. S. District Judge James Redden referred to a history of lawsuits and counterproposals by the federal government going back more than a decade, while a dozen stocks of wild Columbia basin salmon and steelhead teetered toward the brink of extinction.

• The Columbian
• October 02, 2005

• Endangered Species Bill Passes House with Realtor(R) Support

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Legislation that balances the need to protect endangered species with the need to support private property rights and economic development was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives late yesterday with the backing of the National Association of Realtors(r). The Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005, H.R. 3824, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), would reform and improve the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA). This legislation addresses many of NAR's policy principles on new and better ways to recover and protect endangered species. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, only 10 of 1,264 endangered species have recovered and been removed from the list over the act's 30-year history.

• U.S. Newswire
• September 30, 2005

• Assisted Migration: Redefining Nature and Natural Resource Law Under Climate Change

To avoid extinctions and other harms to ecological health from escalating climatic change, scientists, resource managers, and activists are considering and even engaging in "assisted migration" -- the intentional movement of an organism to an area in which its species has never existed. This article explores the profound implications of climate change for American natural resource management through the lens of this controversial adaptation strategy. It details arguments regarding the scientific viability and legality of assisted migration under the thicket of laws that govern natural resources in the US. The article explains why contemporary natural resource law's fidelity to historic baselines, protecting preexisting biota, and shielding nature from human activity is increasingly unte...

... feasible, and where the species is endangered, ecologically valuable, and compatible with the pr...These arguments draw on the history of some intentional introductions that have led to...

• Yale Journal on Regulation
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 2, July 2010

• Endangering the Endangered Species Act: National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife and its threat to the survival of endangered species protection.

... II discusses the fundamentals of, and the history behind, the ESA and the section 7 consultation pro...

• Albany Law Review
• Vol. 72 Nbr. 4, December 2009

• 50 CFR 600.310 - National Standard 1—Optimum Yield.

... fit the category of ?ecosystem component species.? Councils must also describe fisheries data for t... similar in geographic distribution, life history, and vulnerabilities to the fishery such that the ..., marine mammals, threatened or endangered species, and birds. Species interactions that have...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries

• Grizzly bear blues: a case study of the Endangered Species Act's delisting process and recovery plan requirements.

... II provides a brief overview of the ESA's history and prime directives. Part III analyzes the delist...

• Environmental Law
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 2, March 2001