ESA blawg

• Essential ESA
  • ESA Statutory Text
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program
  • NOAA Fisheries Policies
  • NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ESA Policies
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed species search
  • §10 No Surprises Rule
  • §10 Permit Revocation Rule
  • §4 Listing Regs
  • §7 Consultation Regs

• Guidance Handbooks & Policies
  • Distinct Population Segment joint policy
  • Five Year Review Guidance
  • §10 HCP Handbook
  • §4 Memo Re: Significant Portion of the Range
  • §4 Post-Gifford Pinchot Guidance
  • §7 Consultation Handbook

• Notable ESA Summaries
  • Earthjustice on ESA
  • Endangered Species Bibliography
  • Hunton & Williams on ESA
  • National Wildlife Federation on ESA
  • Pathfinder to ESA Information
  • Federal Wildlife Laws Handbook
  • Perkins Coie LLP on ESA
  • U.S. Forest Service on ESA

• Administrative Law Sources
  • U.S. Code
  • U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
  • U.S. Federal Register
  • Federal APA & other administrative laws
  • FOIA
  • Data Quality Act
  • Data Quality Act OMB Regs
  • NEPA (via Council on Envtl. Quality)
  • NOAA on Data Quality Act
  • Regulatory Flexibility Act

• Courts & case law
  • Federal courts
  • Cornell Legal Information Institute (case law)
  • Federal courts ECF links
  • Fed. Rules Civ. Pro.
  • DOJ's litigation highlights (2004)

• International ESA Resources
  • Canada's Species at Risk Act (SARA)
  • Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

• State ESA Resources
  • California ESA
  • : Florida imperiled species info
  • Quick resource chart on state ESA's

• Wildlife Laws
  • Animal Welfare Act
  • Bald Eagle Protection Act
  • Fish & Wildlife Coordination Act
  • Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act
  • Marine Mammal Protection Act
  • Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act
  • CITES

• Congressional Research Service
  • List of CRS biodiversity reports by NCSE
  • ESA & private property (1993)
  • ESA reauthorization? (2001)
  • Pacific Salmon (1999)
  • Delisting & Downlisting (2001)
  • Consideration of Economic Factors (2001)
  • Conflicting Values & Difficult Choices (2007)
  • ESA & Sound Science (2002)
  • Grey Wolves, ESA, DPS and Experimental Populations (2008)
  • Habitat Modification & Sweet Home Decision (1995)
  • Red-cockaded woodpecker (1997)
  • Listing Polar Bears (2007)
  • Polar Bear Proposed Listing (2007)
  • Sweet Home v. Babbitt
  • Takings, Property Rights, & Court Decisions (2003)

• ESA Reform
  • Heritage Foundation
  • NAHB on ESA & species habitat
  • National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition
  • Save the ESA

• Federal ESA Links
  • EPA Pesticides
  • FEMA: Env't & Historic Program
  • NOAA: Northwest Regional Office (salmon HQ)
  • CWA & enhanced ESA consultation
  • FERC licensing & enhanced ESA consultation
  • FIFRA Counterpart Regs

• Historic News
  • On Extinction: Musings Inspired by a Quagga
  • CNN: ESA turns 30 (1/1/2004)
  • CSmonitor: ESA gets listed (9/29/2005)
  • DOI Press Release: ESA Broken (5/28/2003)
  • NPR on ESA (12/29/2003)
  • 100 Success Stories

• Scholarship
  • Nat'l Academy Science on ESA (1995)
  • Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
  • Rebuilding the Ark

KEVIN S. PETTITT helped found this blawg. A D.C.-based IT consultant specializing in Lotus Notes & Domino, he also maintains Lotus Guru blog.

PETE DAVID (Albuquerque, NM). Pete is a Certified Wildlife Biologist with 25 years experience with land stewardship and natural resources programs. He previously worked with the South Florida Water Management District, Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). His project experience includes reintroducing the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker to South Florida, and the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program in New Mexico. Today, Pete continues to work on endangered species issues as a Senior Project Manager for SWCA Environmental Consultants in Albuquerque.

YELIZAVETA BATRES (West Palm Beach, FL). Liz is currently clerking at the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal, after graduating from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was a senior research editor of the Law Review. Liz also interned at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division.