It is not, as the Director said, nor is it right to have strongholds where wilderness-like restrictions over 16.5 million acres of land will be done.
States are using resources wisely to recover species and keep them off the list. We should do more to encourage them.
We've taken enormous steps to avoid a listing and the accompanying Federal intervention only to have our efforts answered with a listing.
Cramming more species onto a list, or blocking millions of acres, including restricting even how our military can use lands for military tra...
the states are prepared, they are ready to move up; and, if we are going to be successful on this issue, we have to think things differently...
Forty years ago, the Endangered Species Act was passed with every good intention; but, despite some of the rhetoric coming from special inte...
That is pure, unadulterated balderdash.
Unfortunately, with less than 2 percent of the more than 1,500 listed species ever recovered, the law is failing.
The greater sage grouse is fast becoming the 'new' northern spotted owl.
What you are proposing now will be used in the courts, and that is not what we are all about.
The draft guidance is overly broad, expansive, it goes outside the scope of NEPA.