This landmark conservation bill has been an abject failure for fifty years

The Endangered Species Act has failed at recovering species.

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|2023-12-26T09:05:17-05:00December 26th, 2023|Comments Off on This landmark conservation bill has been an abject failure for fifty years

Looming ESA listing of Dunes Sagebrush Lizard roils desert Southwest

Swamped by comments opposed to the listing, the FWS extended the comment period for an additional 30 days, until Oct. 2.

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|2023-09-18T11:23:50-04:00September 16th, 2023|Comments Off on Looming ESA listing of Dunes Sagebrush Lizard roils desert Southwest

New Grand Canyon Monument stirs controversy with 1.1 million acre designation

Learn about the new Grand Canyon area national monument and delisting of Arizona's state fish, the Apache trout, on the show today.

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|2023-08-22T14:29:25-04:00August 22nd, 2023|Comments Off on New Grand Canyon Monument stirs controversy with 1.1 million acre designation

Rep. Tom Tiffany: ‘If it’s not multiple-use land, then it’s not public land’

“If it's not multiple-use land, then it's not public land. And I think we really need to emphasize that this is the public's land. And we can do we can do all-of-the-above out on our public lands. I think it's really important to emphasize that, but we need to tell the stories. We need to tell the stories both in terms of the negative that by not managing our federal forests, as we should have, that is what has led to these massive forest fires. That's what's burned down communities. That's what's threatened our sequoias. I think that gets people's [...]

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|2023-07-27T09:04:54-04:00July 24th, 2023|Comments Off on Rep. Tom Tiffany: ‘If it’s not multiple-use land, then it’s not public land’

Bald Eagle numbers soar to high levels, FWS report finds

Bald eagle's low point came in 1963 when there were only 417 known pairs. Efforts to protect the eagles have seen their numbers claw back to healthy levels. Bald eagles were delisted as an “endangered” species in 2007 under President George W. Bush.

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|2021-05-03T13:07:34-04:00May 3rd, 2021|Comments Off on Bald Eagle numbers soar to high levels, FWS report finds

Longleaf pines’ comeback: An environmental success story

For those eager to keep Big Brother at bay, the restoration of the longleaf pine shows that rural communities working with, rather than under the thumb of government, can outperform the ESA.

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|2021-04-16T07:39:11-04:00April 17th, 2021|Comments Off on Longleaf pines’ comeback: An environmental success story

Court rejects effort to block ranchers killing grizzly bears

Some 1,700 grizzlies roam the Lower 48, while another 32,000 make their home in Alaska, where they are not protected. Another 21,000 reside in Canada.

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|2020-07-08T08:15:16-04:00July 8th, 2020|Comments Off on Court rejects effort to block ranchers killing grizzly bears

Appeals court overturns Obama-era ESA designation of “critical habitat” for jaguars

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals March 17 ruled that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 2014 designation of 764,207 acres (about 115 square miles) of land in Arizona and New Mexico as “critical habitat” for the jaguar was “arbitrary and capricious” and declared FWS’s action illegal.

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|2020-03-25T20:08:46-04:00March 26th, 2020|Comments Off on Appeals court overturns Obama-era ESA designation of “critical habitat” for jaguars

Howls erupt over proposed removal of gray wolves from endangered species list

Despite the wolf’s rebound, environmental groups are threatening to take FWS to court over the delisting.

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|2020-03-10T09:59:48-04:00March 9th, 2020|Comments Off on Howls erupt over proposed removal of gray wolves from endangered species list

Trump ESA reforms emphasize species recovery over endless red tape

The Endangered Species Act morphed into a powerful legal instrument that environmentalists adroitly used to shut down any activity – farming, ranching, logging, mining, energy extraction – they didn’t like.

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|2019-08-13T10:09:52-04:00August 13th, 2019|Comments Off on Trump ESA reforms emphasize species recovery over endless red tape

Court rejects activists’ effort to over-criminalize Endangered Species Act

"The lawsuit aimed to criminalize a wide range of ordinary and innocent acts simply because the person who committed them was unlucky enough to be near a threatened or endangered species.”

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|2018-11-06T16:14:12-05:00November 8th, 2018|Comments Off on Court rejects activists’ effort to over-criminalize Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Act reform — About time

If you judge a public policy by its results, the ESA of 1973 is a flop. Over 2,000 species have been listed as endangered pursuant to the Act. How many have recovered? Around thirty. The ESA has, however, been incredibly effective at frustrating and delaying economic activity.

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|2018-09-28T10:09:52-04:00September 28th, 2018|Comments Off on Endangered Species Act reform — About time

CFACT public comment on Administration’s Endangered Species Act reform

Officials have unveiled a package of reforms crafted to make the 45-year-old statute better serve both the species it is supposed to recover and landowners caught up in the law’s cumbersome regulations. Read CFACT's official comment.

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|2018-09-25T11:27:45-04:00September 25th, 2018|Comments Off on CFACT public comment on Administration’s Endangered Species Act reform

Feds tighten the screws on Endangered Species Act enforcement

The Interior Department has been quietly writing new rules and regulations under the Endangered Species Act that will hand broad new powers to federal bureaucrats.

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