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State's Approach To Species Protection Survives Loggers' Challenge

Feb 19, 2008

California, CP&DR Staff, Endangered Species Act, Legal Digest, Vol. 23 No. 03 Mar 2008

A ruling that could result in more plant and animal listings under the California Endangered Species Act will stand. The state Supreme Court on February 13 declined to review a decision by the Third District Court of Appeal, which held that "evolutionary significant units" of a species may qualify for protection, and that state officials need only consider a species' range within California.

No Subdivision Rules: Take That To The (Mitigation) Bank

Sep 24, 2007

CP&DR Staff, Endangered Species Act, Legal Digest, Vol. 22 No. 10 Oct 2007

The creation of a "land bank" and the subsequent sale of mitigation credits within the bank is not subject to requirements of the Subdivision Map Act, according to the attorney general's office.

High Court Limits Endangered Species Protections

Jun 28, 2007

Endangered Species Act, Kenneth Jost, Legal Digest, Vol. 22 No. 08 Aug 2007

WASHINGTON _ Home builders are praising and environmentalists criticizing the Supreme Court's decision allowing states to administer water pollution permitting programs without complying with a key provision in the federal Endangered Species Act.

Builders, Administration Differ With Environmentalists On Species Review

May 4, 2007

Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Kenneth Jost, Legal Digest, Vol. 22 No. 05 May 2007

WASHINGTON _ Home builders are hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that could broaden the impact of the federal Endangered Species Act on residential and commercial construction.

Court Ruling Offers Warning To Habitat Plan Negotiators

by John Krist on Feb 1, 2007

Endangered Species Act, Environment Watch, San Diego County

When San Diego's Multiple Species Conservation Plan (MSCP) was adopted a decade ago, then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared it "a model to the nation for how to plan for and balance the needs of man and nature." Ambitious in geographical scale, daunting in jurisdictional complexity, the plan was intended to regulate development across nearly a quarter of the fast-urbanizing county in such a way as to minimize conflict over scores of rare, threatened or endangered species and their habitats. >>read more

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Accepts Alternative Plan For Protecting Endangered Species

Feb 1, 2006

Endangered Species Act, Environment Watch, Eric Kancler, Sonoma County, Vol. 21 No. 02 Feb 2006

A locally written plan to preserve habitat for the endangered Sonoma County tiger salamander has been accepted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in lieu of designating critical habitat.

Rare Salamander Enters Debate Over Casinos And Sprawl

Jul 1, 2004

Endangered Species Act, Environment Watch, John Krist, Vol. 19 No. 07 Jul 2004

If you tried, you probably could not design a better candidate for extinction than the California tiger salamander. But government protection of the salamander was slow to arrive and now, while the state and federal governments dawdle, the salamander has become embroiled in the politics of growth control and Indian gaming.

Klamath Basin Water Dispute Offers Preview Of West's Future

Oct 1, 2001

Endangered Species Act, Environment Watch, John Krist, Siskiyou County, Vol. 16 No. 10 Oct 2001

The fight over Klamath River water is not solely about the conflicting needs of farmers and fish, as protesters and newspaper headlines suggest. Nor is it about local control versus Washington bureaucrats. The simplistic slogans of the sagebrush rebels are inaccurate. Instead, it is about the false assumptions of the past finally colliding with the realities of the present, about faith in the land's boundless bounty finally running up against the truth of limits.

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