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relate to the Endangered Species Act. One of the largest of these concerns the valuation of rarity.
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Congress annually appropriates funds for the Office of Endangered Species in the United States that are not adequate to list more than a small fraction of the candidate species or to pay for more than a fraction of the possible recovery plans for all enciangered species.
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Boyle and Bishop (1987) estimated the value of preserving the striped shiner, a Wisconsin endangered species.
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In part because of uncertainties in biological knowledge, the long-term costs and benefits of protecting endangered species and their ecosystems is poorly known. In our world of limited resources, the harsh fact is that we must give to get.
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1993. Implementation of an ecosystem approach to endangered species conservation.
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Ecological Applications 3:218-220. Wilson, E
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IS THE ESA WORKING? Is the Endangered Species Act working?
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concludes that the National Wildlife Refuge system is contributing to the recovery of endangered species. Combined with the mandates for federal agencies to avoid jeopardy and the ban on taking listed species, the affirmative steps provided in the ESA are helping to ease the risk to other species too.
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The agency further states that it emphasizes cooperation and teamwork among all involved parties. As clescribe(i in Chapter 4, the resource agencies had approved 411 recovery plans covering 5 13 species as of March 1993 54% ofthe 956 U.S.
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PROTECTION OF ECOSYSTEMS Although it is clear that the ESA has resulted in the protection of some ecosystems on which endangered species depend, our ability to quantify the contribution the FWS and NMFS regulatory programs make in protecting them is limitecI. Lacking effective metrics, we are left to compare the relative advantages and disadvantages of species-by-species ~nanagement so common in the listing an(l recovery programs with more regional ecosystem-oriented efforts.
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, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Bureau of Reclamation. THE FUTURE: BEYOND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT The ESA anti other existing programs will not by themselves prevent all future extinctions of species in the Unitecl States.
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She said (as quoted by the Jackson Hole News, February 8, 1995~: "The Endangered Species Act is .
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It therefore concludes that any coherent, successful program to prevent species endangerments and to protect the nation's biological diversity is going to require more enlightened commitments on the part of all major parties to achieve success. To conserve natural habitats, approaches must be developed that rely on cooperation and innovative procedures; examples provided for by the ESA are habitat conservation plans anti natural community consecration planning.
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1986. Saving Endangered Species, Amending the Implementing the Endangered Species Act.
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Appendix A
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. P`~mo`;t two decades havo pb88e~ since the Endangered Species Act was first enacted by congress.
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RISK. Judgments about acceptable r isk pervade many of ache cieci'3ions required by fiche Endangered species Act, including those relating to whether and how to list a species and what cons~ci.CUtes Jeopardy, adverse modification, reosonable and prudery alternatives, taking, conservation and recovery.
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. 4 November 27, 1991 Page Three We appreciate your attention to Chit; request and believe that a report by the tintional Academy could make an impor~cant con~cribution to the public discourse on ache Endangered Specie'; ACt.
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Appendix B
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