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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

gray wolves (Canis lupus) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which gave them federal protection from hunting, killing, and otherwise harassing. In 2003, satisfied that the populations had sufficiently recovered, USFWS initiated procedures to delist wolves from the ESA.

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Sawfish?

Ocean Conservancy

Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2003. Their populations have drastically declined because of overfishing, habitat loss and entanglement in marine debris. Ocean Conservancy submitted the petition that led to the listing of smalltooth sawfish under the U.S. Sawfish can reproduce without sex.

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Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Reject Challenge to ESA Rule

Endangered Species Law

Department of Interior (“ KNRC ”).

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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

2003) (finding that NOAA’s defined “action area” was unreasonably narrow because it excluded areas where project impacts were “perhaps less direct but no less certain to occur”). The Biden administration’s approval of the project appears to contravene President Biden’s campaign promise to stop oil drilling on federal lands.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

Circle of Blue

The upper Columbia River spring Chinook and Snake River sockeye populations are listed as endangered under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. The Snake River fall Chinook, Snake River spring/summer Chinook, Snake River steelhead and upper Columbia River steelhead populations are listed as threatened.

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