This landmark conservation bill has been an abject failure for fifty years
The Endangered Species Act has failed at recovering species.
The Endangered Species Act has failed at recovering species.
Swamped by comments opposed to the listing, the FWS extended the comment period for an additional 30 days, until Oct. 2.
Learn about the new Grand Canyon area national monument and delisting of Arizona's state fish, the Apache trout, on the show today.
“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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Despite the wolf’s rebound, environmental groups are threatening to take FWS to court over the delisting.
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.
"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.”
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.
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.
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.