Circle of Blue
JULY 8, 2025
The return of salmon to the upper Klamath River represents a victory for nature, an exhibition of the century-long transition in how Americans view the environment, and a signal achievement of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Tensions caused by the new restrictions on irrigation water soon came to a head in the drought of 2001.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Ever increasing water use, and severe drought conditions, brought conflicts over water use to a head in the early 2000s when water conservation measures were taken in order to protect several fish listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Three KRB fish species are especially significant from an environmental perspective.
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The Energy Law
JULY 21, 2016
In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. Tammany Parish.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Surface water has historically been the primary water source for many farmers in the region.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Endangered Species Act : Nearly every country has one of these now as well as international laws and designations for cross-border co-operation on conservation. This Act came into being in 1973 with the aim of setting out special protections for species at risk of extinction.
The Energy Law
JULY 28, 2017
Currently, the entire population of dusky gopher frogs is estimated to be fewer than 150 adults and the species’ current range is limited to three ponds in south Mississippi. In 2001, the USFWS listed the dusky gopher frog as an endangered species. The Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.
Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2024
This is the case that put teeth into the Endangered Species Act. Resisting the pleas that saving a minor species of fish was not worth halting a dam project, the Court held that the statute meant what it said: protecting endangered species is a paramount value. Hill, 437 U.S.
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