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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- „... of Congress. The Evolution of Wildlife Management and the Extinction Crisis Prior to 1973 13the 1902 ...” „... conservation, led by a strong central federal government. Library of Congress. The Evolution of Wildlife ...” „... in the chronology of wildlife management, Congress passed in 1937 the Federal Aid in Wildlife ...”
- „... at-risk species through the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA). Congress has also directed the Fish ...” „... Land ManagementBSFW: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and WildlifeCBD: Center for Biological DiversityCCA ...” „... : Western Governors’ AssociationWLFW: Working Lands for WildlifeWMI: Wildlife Management InstituteWPA ...”
- „... , raising the public alarm about dwindling wildlife communities, Congress passed two historic laws that ...” „... version of federalism, Congress did not prevent states from enacting more robust wildlife regulations: The ...” „... manage its resident wildlife—legally, intellectually, and emotionally. From the states’ perspective ...”
- „... 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 ...”
- „... fish and wildlife.(b) PurPoses.—The purposes of this Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems ...” „... , which are suitable for—“(1) incidental fish and wildlife-oriented recreational development,“(2) the ...” „... 649Appendix BThe Endangered Species Act of 1973, As EnactedPublic Law 93-20593rd Congress, S. 1983 ...”
- „... ; mitigation policies, 99, 260–64, 565, 617. See also Partners for Fish and WildlifeUnited States Forest ...” „... 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 ...”
- „... and wildlife;(D) the State agency is authorized to establish programs, including the acquisi-tion of ...” „... Act of 1972 717Sec. 18. Annual cost analysis by the Fish and Wildlife Service 717Findings, Purposes ...” „... , and PolicySec. 2. (a) Findings.—The Congress finds and declares that—(1) various species of fish ...”
- „... enactment in Congress. Realizing the actors involved were all aging, my associate Chris Segal and I ...” „... state of wildlife management prior to the enactment of the ESA in 1973; perform a forensic examination ...” „... within the Act; define the congressional intent of Congress so often misunderstood and mischaracterized ...”