Endangered Species Bulletin articles from November 1999

Endangered Species Bulletin archives from November 1999

Sharing the Rewards of Endangered Species Recovery.
November 1, 1999... The Endangered species Act ranked as one of the most popular laws ever when it was enacted in 1973. It passed with almost unanimous support in Congress, following the ground-breaking research by the Fish and Wildlife Service that linked DDT, a...

The Endangered Species Listing Program.
November 1, 1999... The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) gives the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for making a very important decision: determining whether to place an animal or plant on the Federal list of endangered and threatened species. This...

The Federal Role in Habitat Protection.
November 1, 1999... The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has broader mandates than simply directing the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect listed plants or animals. It directs all Federal agencies, not just the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries...

Habitat Conservation Planning.
November 1, 1999... The HCP program has prompted local citizens to think about the future of their communities, the issues affecting their quality of life, and how conservation plays a role in these issues. By working together, State and local governments and...

Endangered Species Timeline.
November 1, 1999... The following timeline summarizes some of the many events, both positive and negative, in our nation's growing effort to conserve our rare animal and plant resources: PRE-1970 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt establishes the first...

Endangered Species Recovery Program.
November 1, 1999... The Endangered Species Act has as its primary purpose the conservation of endangered and threatened species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. It focuses on a single, ultimate goal: to recover listed species to a point where they have...

Lessons from Leopold in Assessing the ESA.
November 1, 1999... Some 63 years ago, Aldo Leopold called the need to conserve threatened forms of wildlife "the crux of conservation policy."(1) Nearly four decades later, Congress made the first serious national effort to address this challenge. With enactment...

Enforcing the Law for Endangered Species.
November 1, 1999... In 1973, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) launched a new era in wildlife law enforcement. Federal officers had been on the wildlife "beat" since 1900, but their work focused primarily on protecting waterfowl and supporting State management of...

Preserving Our Endangered Heritage.
November 1, 1999... History, like wildlife, can become endangered through indifference or destruction. With that thought in mind, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) created a Heritage Committee a little more than a year ago to oversee the preservation of our...

Region 1.
November 1, 1999... Applegate's Milk-vetch Staff from the FWS Klamath Falls, Oregon, Office assisted the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA)'s Plant Conservation Program in planting nearly 900 Applegate's milk-vetch (Astragalus applegatei) seedlings. This...

Region 5.
November 1, 1999... Endangered Bats The FWS West Virginia Field Office, Canaan Valley NWR, and West Virginia Division of Natural Resources' Non-Game Wildlife and Natural Heritage Program joined to construct a large angle-iron gate at the entrance of Schoolhouse...

ON THE WEB.
November 1, 1999... The Fish and Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Homepage provides a wealth of information on our Endangered Species Program: Listing Web Page http://endangered.fws.gov/listing View or download recent listing notices or actions...

LISTING ACTIONS.
November 1, 1999... During August and September 1999, the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published the following Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing actions in the Federal Register. The full text of each proposed and final...

BOX SCORE.
November 1, 1999... Listings and Recovery Plans as of December 31, 1999 ENDANGERED THREATENED GROUP U.S. FOREIGN U.S. FOREIGN MAMMALS 61 248 8 16 BIRDS 74...