Zusammenfassung
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation’s species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists.
The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of this law, and provides an opportunity for a measured and thorough evaluation thereof. We cannot know today’s challenges and opportunities without understanding their histories. This book is the most comprehensive history of the ESA ever published, and the first to consider the entire history of the law from all angles in a single volume.
The history of the ESA has been one of increasing impact, complexity, and controversy. In 1978, the Supreme Court declared that Congress intended for the U.S. government to save all species at any cost, and thereafter application of the ESA became steadily more controversial, as seen in the example of the northern spotted owl and the timber wars in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early 90s, and then everywhere as the ESA became a political football in the highly partisan environment of the late 1990s and amendments to the law ceased.
This book is not only a history, but a call to action. It will take more conservation, more funding, and more innovative solutions if we are to save our wildlife and biodiversity. It will take the engagement to every American to muster the collective will to meet this challenge. The hope of this book is that we will be able to look back and say that we accomplished more in the second 50 years of the ESA than we did in the first.
Schlagworte
wildlife conservation wildlife conservation history wildlife conservation law wildlife laws supreme court wildlife extinction crisis congress wildlife conservation funding endangered species endangered species history- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 643–646 Acknowledgments 643–646
- 719–798 Bibliography 719–798
- 799–816 Index 799–816
5 Treffer gefunden
- „... .———. “History of State Wildlife Management in the United States.” In State Wildlife Management and Conservation ...” „... , 2020.Bailey, James A., William Elder, and Ted D. McKinney. Readings in Wildlife Conservation ...” „... . Managing American Wildlife, a History of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies ...”
- „... , artifacts on big game hunting, natural history, and wildlife conservation from the nineteenth and twentieth ...” „... Evolution of Wildlife Management and the Extinction Crisis Prior to 1973 3Wildlife in Early American History ...” „... 3Sportsmen Emerge as the Driving Force for Wildlife Conservation 4Post-Civil War Views of Wildlife 6 ...”
- „... sovereignty over its resident wildlife. It was one of history’s most divided Courts, which reflected the ...” „... conservation programs.1 This chapter provides a deeper exploration of the history and evolution of federal ...” „... wildlife conservation programs had attached conditions on how the funds were to be spent, with accompanying ...”
- „... Conservation, 3, 45, 47–52; Organ, “History of State Wildlife Management in the United States,” 5.24. Reiger ...” „... Origins of Conservation, 22–26, 115.29. Organ, “History of State Wildlife Management in the United States ...” „... Origins of Conservation, 54–56, 60–65, 122–24; Organ, “History of State Wildlife Management in the United ...”
- „... . John is a 40+ year veteran of public service in wild-life conservation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...” „... ensure the accuracy of the history of conservation, and that its key milestones and environmental ...” „... history.Parts of this book were written for a PhD dissertation at the Institute for Environmental History ...”