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How the Endangered Species Act is Helping to Restore the Klamath River Basin

Vermont Law

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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Gray Wolf conservation in the Northern Rockies: Can we protect wolves and ranchers?

Vermont Law

By David Jennings, 1L Student, Vermont Law School. gray wolves (Canis lupus) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which gave them federal protection from hunting, killing, and otherwise harassing. This allowed even more species in the Yellowstone ecosystem to thrive. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Climate Attribution and the Willow Project: Federal Obligations to Evaluate the Effects of Fossil Fuel Leasing on Endangered Species

Law Columbia

The Sabin Center submitted an amicus brief supporting this claim and explaining how climate change attribution and detection research can be used to assess the effect of project-level emissions on sea ice declines within the habitat ranges of these species. 2016) ; Derocher et al. Decision at 101-102.) See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3