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Former Fish and Wildlife Director comments on wolf delisting
Author: Damien M. Schiff Jamie Rappaport Clark, the Service's director from 1997 to 2001, had this oped in last Friday's Washington Post, excoriating the Obama Administration and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar for going ahead, in March of 2009, with a Bush Administration proposal to delist the Northern Rockies "dist ...
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Marbled Murrelet to remain listed
Author: Ralph W. Kasarda Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final 12-month determination denying the delisting petition of the American Forest Resource Council ("AFRC") in regard to the marbled murrelet. The rule can be found here. The result of the Service's determination is that the marbled murrele ...
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The costs of endangered species regulation
Debates over the utility of the Endangered Species Act often focus on the alleged costs of protecting listed species. Here’s a good and recent example concerning the marbled murrelet, a small song bird listed as a threatened species since 1992. The State of Oregon has been considering selling timberland in the Elliott State Forest in ...