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- 643–646 Acknowledgments 643–646
- 719–798 Bibliography 719–798
- 799–816 Index 799–816
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- „... Toward Wildlife Protection 26Wildlife and Environmental Laws from the 1960s to Today 281973: A Watershed ...” „... enrollment in federal conservation programs under the Farm Bill or other laws.FEMAT: Forest Ecosystem ...” „... being the apotheosis of environmental laws.The overwhelming support for the ESA soon gave way to ...”
- „... laws of England, where the King owned the wildlife, and unauthor-ized taking was harshly penalized ...” „... trust for the benefit of all the people. This led to state control over wildlife, and laws to regulate ...” „... laws prohibiting destructive methods of collecting fish and wildlife had no real effect nationally ...”
- „... wildlife taken, killed, possessed, or exported to the United States in violation of the laws or regulations ...” „... intervals.(f) ConFlicts Between Federal and state laws.—Any State law or regulation which applies with respect ...” „... against the Secretary or a State agency).(h) coordination witH otHer laws.—The Secretary of Agriculture ...”
- „... pre-emption of state laws, with a focus on wildlife and ESA cases. A more complete treat-ment of the subject ...” „... , raising the public alarm about dwindling wildlife communities, Congress passed two historic laws that ...” „... laws and precedent that federal regulation of endangered wildlife does not trench impermissibly upon ...”
- „... Wildlife Refuge, 152Allison, Lesli, 505, 585Amazon rain forest, 616America’s Conservation Enhancement Act ...” „... American Wildlife Institute, 14An Environmental Agenda for the Future (book), 128Andrus, Cecil D., 97, 127 ...” „... Antiquities Act, 97, 254, 389, 445. See also national monumentsAransas National Wildlife Refuge, 410, 413 ...”
- „... periodic review at no greater than annual intervals.(f) conFlicts Between Federal and state laws.—Any State ...” „... Act of 1972 717Sec. 18. Annual cost analysis by the Fish and Wildlife Service 717Findings, Purposes ...” „... , wildlife, and plants in the United States have been ren-dered extinct as a consequence of economic growth ...”
- „... American Wildlife Management: The Dynamic Balance between State and Federal Authority. Foreword by Stephen ...” „... , 1993.———. Saving Species on Private Lands: Unlocking Incentives to Conserve Wildlife and Their ...” „... , 2020.Bailey, James A., William Elder, and Ted D. McKinney. Readings in Wildlife Conservation ...”