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Information You Need To Know About - 

The Endangered Species Act

House Resource Committee to hold ESA Hearing on The Klamath Project - July 17, 2004  Press Release 

Testimony of Dan Keppen On Behalf of the Klamath Water Users Association - Submitted to the Subcommittee on Water and Power - July 17th Hearing 

Klamath Basin Farmer Bill Kennedy writes to Congressman Pombo:  Enhance the Endangered Species Act 

PERC Report:  Accounting for Species - The True Costs of the Endangered Species Act 

 

The Problems with the Endangered Species Act  By Dr. Michael S. Coffman

 

USF&WS:  Endangered Species Expenditure Reports  1996 - 2004  

What happens when a protected species starts eating another protected species?

"The Restoration Paradox" by Ed Hunt

Tidepool Feature Article

'Endangered Species' Cost USA Billions by Alan Caruba 
Commerce Clause Over-ruled (No Federal Power Within a State) plus 9th Circuit Court Ruling 

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

and the Human Dimension by Ric Frost, M.S. Agricultural Economics - New Mexico State University 

Webpage for all testimony on NEPA bill
House Resource Committee Reports: Examples of Species Delisted and Downlisted Because of Inaccurate Data 

Field or Empirical Data Often Proves
Original Data Inaccurate
(Taken from Recovery Plans) .pdf 

Unspoken Issues of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)  by Ric Frost, M.S. Agricultural Economics - New Mexico State University 
Economics and the Endangered Species Act Julie Smithson:  The Many Facets of The Endangered Species Act (updated version)   August 27, 2005
GAO Report:  Endangered Species:  Despite Consultation Improvement Efforts in the Pacific Northwest, Concerns Persist About the Process USF&W State Maps of Endangered Species
The Center for Biological Diversity:  Since 1984 staff members of the Center have been successful in obtaining ESA protection for  329 species

Endangered? Property rights - from the Lima, Ohio News 1/02/04
HR 1662 (Walden, R-OR) Endangered Species Act revisions. Will add a greater role for the states and require more thorough biological evidence of a species being endangered before it can be listed as endangered. Sound Science for Endangered Species Act Planning Act of 2003 - .pdf file  

S. 369 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to improve the processes for listing, recovery planning, and delisting, and for other purposes. Companion bill to Walden's H. 1662

S 2009 (Smith, R-OR) Sound Science for Endangered Species Act Planning Act of 2004

HR 1965 (Gibbons, R-NV) Proposes to amend the Endangered Species Act to limit its application on military land or private land and to provide incentives for voluntary habitat maintenance.

HR 1299 (109th Congress) Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005

 GAO Report:  Endangered Species:  Fish and Wildlife Service Uses Best Available Science to Make Listing Decisions but Additional Guidance Needed for Critical Habitat Designations.  GAO-03-803, August 29,2003

GAO Report:  Endangered Species:  More Federal Management Attention Is Needed to Improve the Consultation Process  GAO-04-93 March, 2004 .pdf  
U.S. Fish Wildlife Service (USFWS) Endangered Species Information

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Recovery and Delisting of Endangered Species Programs

 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Endangered Species Information
The ESA at 30: A Mandate for Modernization by Richard Pombo  H.R. 2933 To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to reform the process for designating critical habitat under that Act. 
Another View:  ESA Scandal - from the Colorado Springs Gazette May 3, 2004 The American Enterprise: Reining in the Endangered Species Act By Marni Soupcoff 

Biodiversity Discovered - Solving the Mystery of the Global Species Count and Exploding the Myth of the Sixth Extinction by Thomas W. Kral

"At most, there are 3.63 million species and the extinction rate is 3 to 5 species annually . . . ." 

NWI Report: Conservation Under the Endangered Species Act: A Promise Broken  "The Act's inadequate scientific standards and its non-scientific definition of species lead to subjectivity, inconsistency and erroneous decisions that impede success of the endangered species program" 
Congressman Walden Shares Views with the National Water Resources Association (NWRA) on Improving Endangered Species Act  The Heartland Institute - Mouse that Cost Economy $100 Million May Never Have Existed - by Jay Lehr, Ph.D. 
Endangered Species Act needs revising by Stanislaus County Supervisors Grover & Mayfield  House Resource Committee: Frivolous environmental lawsuits hurt economy, environment, and taxpayer  
USGS:  Endangered and Threatened Species Recovery Program Report to Congress - 1992

USGS:  Recovery Program: Endangered and Threatened Species Report to Congress - 1994

 Jim Beers:  Amending the Endangered Species Act November 11, 2004 
PLF:  PLF Launches Sweeping Lawsuit Challenging Critical Habitat for 48 Species in California  November 15, 2004  Delta Farm Press, Savannah, GA:  Efforts made to improve endangered species rule  Nov 15, 2004  
Grist Magazine:  GOP has set its sights on revamping the Endangered Species Act    

Jim Beers:  Reforming the Endangered Species Act

Jim Beers:  Species  

Jim Beers:  Trojan Horses 

Jim Beers:  Seals Ahoy!  Analyzing Propaganda 

Jim Beers:  Reforming the ESA - Stay Awake  

Jim Beers:  Endangered Species Today - February, 2005
Center for Environmental Education:  Internet database focuses on endangered species   Possible Supreme Court Case Could Gut the ESA!  January 26, 2005 
Annapolis:  Group making a point with 'endangered' snakehead  January 26, 2005

Capital Press:  Is ESA broken? Reform efforts under way in Congress  March 11, 2005

 1980 US Court of Appeals decision that States, not Federal Agencies Should Manage Resident Species  

1979 Alaskan Case - States Should Manage Resident Species

1994 Wyoming Case - States Should Manage Resident Species

1996 Wyoming Case - States Should Manage Resident Species  
Beers: Eastern Spotted Owl - the ginseng plant

Sarah Young-Teskey:  Common Sense Needed in the Endangered Species Act February 21, 2005
Pacific Legal Foundation:  Endangered Species Act Finally Meets the Fifth Amendment  February 21, 2005 National Center for Policy Analysis:  Private Initiatives Preserve Species .pdf

Paula Easley:  Endangered Species Act . . . Wildlife law is an 800-pound gorilla 

March 1, 2005

 The Monitor:  Double Standard: Eco groups silent on federal fish kill March 15, 2005
PERC:  Nature Undisturbed - The Myth Behind the Endangered Species Act  March 23, 2005 Peyton Knight:  Endangered Species Act: 30 years of Endangering People and Animals is Enough!  March 23, 2005
CA Farm Bureau:  Commentary: 'ESA has a zero percent rate of success'  by Richard Pombo April 6, 2005 Blue Planet:  How goes the ESA?  By Dan Whipple April 6, 2005
Jay Lehr, Ph.D.:  How to Fix the Endangered Species Act  April 7, 2005 Washington Times:  Westerners see poetic justice in saving snakehead  April 11, 2005
Henry Lamb:  How to 'improve' the Endangered Species Act  April 23, 2005 Eric Englund:  The Hypocrisy of Environmentalism  April 25, 2005
Herald and News:  OIT to host (Miller Lake) lamprey meeting tonight  April 26, 2005

Information about the Miller Lake Lamprey

 House Resource Committee:  GAO Endangered Species Report: Little Reason to Expect Poor Recovery Record To Improve April 26, 2005

GAO Report:  Endangered Species: Fish and Wildlife Service Generally Focuses Recovery Funding on High-Priority Species, but Needs to Periodically Assess Its Funding Decisions GAO-05-211
PLF:  Activists Must Prove Harm to Species, Not Just Allege It, to Invoke Endangered Species Act  April 26, 2005

Seattle PI Special Report Series: A License to Kill:  Flaws in habitat conservation plans threaten scores of species

Some see politics in habitat planning

Pioneer conservation plan falls short

Toad's fate in landowners' hands

Lands lose guardian when trust goes bust

State could log trees they previously fought to preserve  May 3, 2005

Seattle PI Special Report Series: A License to Kill: The public often has little role in the drafting of habitat plans

Idle preserves turn to eyesores

Montana's bull trout runs threatened

Too often, inadequate science hampers habitat planning

Lone voice challenges 'no surprises'

May 4, 2005

Seattle PI Special Report Series: A License to Kill:  Scientists fault state habitat plan

Big thinking is required to overhaul habitat program

'Political realities' helped shape urban preserve

Lessons learned elsewhere put to good use in Arizona

Best-laid plans can't foresee all  May 5, 2005

 NEPA:

Capital Press:  Industries call for streamlining of aged federal NEPA policy May 6, 2005

Seattle Times:  Panel's goal is to make environmental law better  May 9, 2005

Mineweb:  Miners, NGOs square off on NEPA reform  May 19, 2005

TipSheet:  Key Environmental Law Eroding On Many Fronts  May, 2005
Delta Farm Press:  Lawsuits, lack of incentives hamstring Endangered Species Act May 13, 2005 Greenwire:  Norton has harsh words for enviros, critical habitat lawsuits  May 20, 2005

Washington Examiner Editorial:   Endangered species, endangered sense May 26, 2005

 Liberty Matters News Service:  Pombo Set to File ESA Reauthorization Bill  May 27,2005
Capital Press:  Local control fits some cases, not others  May 27, 2005 EcoFreedom:  GAO's Robin M. Nazzaro ESA Testimony Before Sub Committee on Fisheries, Wildlife  June 1, 2005
Washington Examiner:  Endangered priorities - Livestock Weekly: 
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA's ESA Salmon, Steelhead 'Status Review' Likely Delayed   June 10, 2005 Eugene Register-Guard Editorial:  Strengthen species act: Promising bipartisan effort under way in Senate May 28, 2005

SOSA:  Response to Register-Guard Editorial  June 13, 2005
Dr. Michael Coffman:  New ESA Audio/Visual Presentation  June 15, 2005 Dan Keppen, Family Farm Alliance:  

Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power - Committee on Resources

United States House of Representatives:  

Oversight Hearing on Environmental Regulations and Water Supply Reliability  

June 22, 2005  

Julie Smithson:  Comment letter on Reforming the ESA - Endangered Species Act Reform ... REPEAL  June 18, 2005 William Jud:  Comment letter on Reforming the ESA - Endangered Species Act Reform  June 18, 2005
House Resource Committee Report:  Implementation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973  .pdf NCPPR: ESA Can't Work Without Property Rights Protections  June 21, 2005
Peyton Knight:  Group Calls for End to the Endangered Species Act  June 21, 2005  The June 16, 2005 American Policy Center  letter  .pdf
Denver Post:  Scientists protest species rules H.R. 1299:  To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to reform the process for designating critical habitat under that Act.
Christian Science Monitor:  Endangered Species Act under fire from two directions  June 28, 2005 Center for Biological Diversity:  Press Release - Pombo's Endangered Species Bill Revealed  June 28, 2005
Pombo:  Staff Discussion Draft of Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005 (TESRA 2005) .pdf CBD:  Wants ESA to protect salamanders in Southern Oregon and N. California  June 20, 2005
SacBee:  Tracy Press:  Wildlife protection effects on water programs probed  June 22, 2005
Union Democrat: Endangered species fight builds  June 24, 2005 Lacrosse Tribune: Commentary - Clear thinking on endangered species  June 26, 2005
Red Nova News:  NOAA Scientists Say Reports Altered  June 28, 2005 Jamie Rappaport Clark:  INSIGHTS: The Vital Importance of the Endangered Species Act  June 27, 2005
Chico Enterprise Record:  Report reveals cost of critical habitat designation for vernal pool species - $992 million  June 29, 2005 San Joaquin:  Pombo on verge of unveiling new species law  June 29, 2005
Tracy Press:  Species law reform summary worries both left and right  July 1, 2005 Pombo:  Staff Discussion Draft of Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005 (TESRA 2005) .pdf
Wall Street Journal:  Endangering Species July 1, 2005 New York Times:  Legislation aimed at weakening Endangered Species Act  July 4, 2005
Defenders of Wildlife:   Assault On Endangered Species Act  July 5, 2005 Redding Record Searchlight: Herger wants ESA changed  July 6, 2005
LA Times: National Environmental Policy Act Is 'at a Crossroads'  July 7, 2005 Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.:  Letter to Representative Pombo (re: Property Rights in TESRA 2005)  June 15, 2005
Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.: Whither the Endangered Species Act  June, 2005 Tracy Press:  Proposal changes could kill Endangered Species Act July 10, 2005 
ONRC's Regna Merritt:  Protect the Endangered Species Act  July 10, 2005 Natural Resources Defense Council:  House Bill Would Downsize Endangered Species Act  July 12, 2005
Tom DeWeese:  ESA: A Clearing of the Air  July 12, 2005 NAHB:  Builders Urge Congress To Update Endangered Species Act  July 13, 2005
AFBF:  Foutz Suggests Changes to ESA Before Subcommittee  July 13, 2005 SD Ag Secretary Larry Gabriel:   Does the king have clothes?
U.S. Newswire:  Pelosi Statement on Endangered Species Act  July 20, 2005 Henry Lamb:  Endangered Species Act debate is heating up  July 23, 2005
Houston Chronicle: Endangered Species Act embroiled in court battles July 23, 2005 Reason: The Endangered Species Act keeps on not saving endangered species July 27, 2005
The National Center for Public Policy Research:  Pombo Proposal Wouldn't Gut the Endangered Species Act:  It Could Give it Formidable New Teeth  July 26, 2005 High Country News:  Will the real Mr. Pombo please stand up?  July 26, 2005
Liberty Matters:  ESA Stalled… For Now  July 28, 2005 Livestock Weekly:  ESA Has Always Been About Land Use Control, Not Species Aid  July 28, 2005

The International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies:  State Wildlife Grants: The Nation’s Core Program for Preventing Wildlife from Becoming Endangered  July, 2005

 Jay Lehr, Ph.D.:  How to Fix the Endangered Species Act  Aug. 1, 2005
Morrison: Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up   Aug. 5, 2005 CQ Today:  Republicans in Both Chambers Preparing to Tackle Endangered Species Act  August 17, 2005
Daily Arizona News: Law protecting one species from another cries out for reform  August 21, 2005 Jim Beers:  Wolves Coming to New England   August 20, 2005
CBD:  Conservationists Seek Protection for S. OR/ N. CA Salamanders  August 24, 2005 AP:  Western lizard species subject of lawsuit  August 24, 2005
Capital Press: Congressman rallies rural backing for coming ESA fight  August 26, 2005 Peyton Knight: Pombo's Endangered Species Act Reform Proposal Would Do More Harm Than Good, Analysis Says  August 31, 2005
The Stockton Record:  Pombo expects approval of species act revision  Sept 1, 2005 Robert T. Fanning:  Repeal Endangered Species Act   Sept 1, 2005
Tom DeWeese: The tyranny of the ESA and the threat of Kelo 2  Sept 6, 2005 SeattlePI:  Congress has the Endangered Species Act in its sights this fall  Sept 6, 2005
American Farm Bureau Federation: Better Endangered Species Incentives Needed  Sept 15, 2005 CBD:  Pombo’s Anti-Endangered Species Bill Leaked Again  Sept 16, 2005
Environmental News Service:  Pombo Seeks to Modify Endangered Species Act  Sept 16, 2005 PFUSA Grange: The Endangered Species Reform Act (TESRA) 2005  Sept 17, 2005
AP:  Lawmakers seek to eliminate protections for wildlife species  Sept 19, 2005 HRC:  House Resources panel prepares for debate, votes on ESA  Sept 19, 2005
Congressman Greg Walden:  Walden Backs Bipartisan ESA Modernization Measure; Says "32-Year-Old Law Needs Fixing"  Sept 19, 2005 Congressman Greg Walden:  32-Year-Old ESA Needs Modernization  Sept 19, 2005
House Resource Committee:  White Paper on The Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005  Sept 19, 2005 Herald and News:  Species act critics float new bill  Sept 20, 2005
Competitive Enterprise Institute:  Pombo's ESA Bill Will Protect Property Owners  Sept 20, 2005 Family Farm Alliance Response to TESRA Bill  Sept 19, 2005
Seattle PI: The battle begins over Endangered Species Act  Sept 22, 2005 East Oregonian: Early returns show support for Walden’s ESA proposal  Sept 22, 2005
HRC:  TESRA of 2005 Approved Overwhelmingly by Committee  Sept 22, 2005 Congressman Greg Walden:   House Panel Passes Bipartisan Measure to Improve Endangered Species Act   Sept 22, 2005
AP:   Panel OKs rewrite of Endangered Species Act  Sept 22, 2005 Washington Post:  Rewrite of Endangered Species Law Approved; House to Vote Soon; Senate Could in 2006  Sept 23, 2005
Las Vegas Review Journal Opinion:  Property owners would get their due under species law rewrite  Sept 23, 2005 HRC:  Links to HR 3824 TESRA Amendments  Sept 22, 2005
PLF: F&WS Agrees to Perform Status Reviews for 194 Species in California  Sept 20, 2005
Rodney Stubbs:  Research indicates there is much more going on than what appears in Pombo’s HR 3824 TESRA  Sept 23, 2005 HRC:  Defending ESA Failures Sept 27, 2005
Wall Street Journal:  Re-Origin of the Species (Act)  Sept 29, 2005 Defenders:  Environmental Groups Applaud Efforts to Secure Strong ESA  Sept 29, 2005
CA Farm Bureau Ag Alert:  House Resources Committee OKs ESA legislation  Sept 28, 2005 HRC:  Pombo's Opening Statement on H.R. 3824 in Committee  Sept 21, 2005
House Congressional Record:  Pombo in the House on Property Rights - HR 3824  Sept 29, 2005

Read the entire September 29, 2005, transcript of the House Congressional Record concerning the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005.

 The National Center for Public Policy Research:  Environmental Activists Target Small Property Owners While Calling the Fifth Amendment a “New Entitlement”   Sept 29, 2005
The Modesto Bee:  Pombo-Cardoza wildlife bill corrects any flaws by Jeff Grover  Sept 29, 2005 H.R. 3824, TESRA (Committee Post Markup) .pdf

H.R. 3824, TESRA (as sent to the US Senate)  Sept 30, 2005
The House of Representatives Roll Call Vote on H.R. 3824, "The Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005" (TESRA) Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate for TESRA - 2005 HR 3824 .pdf
Contra Costa Times:  Miller bill seeks to counter Pombo's  Sept 29, 2005 HRC:  House Passes Historic ESA Improvement Bill  Sept 29, 2005
Earthjustice:  House Passes Bill Aimed at Gutting Endangered Species Act  Sept 29, 2005 Scripps Howard News Service:  House votes to revamp Endangered Species Act  Sept 29, 2005
NY Times:  House Votes for New Limits on Endangered Species Act   Sept 30, 2005 LA Times:  U.S. House Votes to Revamp Endangered Species Act  Sept 30, 2005
Tacoma News Tribune:  Endangered Species Act could face big changes   Sept 30, 2005 Free New Mexican Editorial: Congressional delegation: Repel pro-extinction effort  Sept 30, 2005
Herald and News Editorial:  Good science, peer review vital for ESA  Sept 30, 2005 Congressman Greg Walden Press Release:  House of Representatives Passes Bipartisan Legislation to Strengthen ESA    Sept 30, 2005
Scripps Howard News Service:  Species act changes could cost taxpayers  Sept 30, 2005
Sierra Club:  Congress Takes Step Toward Razing Endangered Species Act  Sept 30, 2005 Investors.com: Habitat For Humanity  Sept 30, 2005
The National Center for Public Policy Research:  Cleveland Plain Dealer:  Strange bedfellows working to save act that protects endangered species  Oct 1, 2005
Tracy Press:  Educated Pombo gets his reforms  Oct 1, 2005 St. Louis Post Dispatch:  Property rights gain traction in overhaul of Endangered Species Act  Oct 2, 2005
Corvallis Gazette:  DeFazio explains his voting on HR 3824  Oct 2, 2005 The Olympian:  Species act backers pin hopes on Senate  Oct 3, 2005
WSJ:  Too Much of a Good Thing Can Be Bad  Oct 4, 2005
Ukiah Daily Journal, CA:  Thompson says protection' rewrite would threaten more species  Oct 4, 2005
Richard W. Pombo: Endangered Species Act fails test of time  Oct 5, 2005 North Bay Bohemian:  Fall of the Wild  Oct 5, 2005
California Farm Bureau:  Historic ESA overhaul clears major hurdle  Oct 5, 2005
Oct 5, 2005
Minnesota Daily:  Critical act now endangered  Oct 5, 2005
Christian Science Monitor:  A growing regional divide over species act  Oct 5, 2005
emagazine:  "Fixing" the Endangered Species Act  Oct 7, 2005 Twin Falls, ID Editorial:  New ESA reforms wisely enlist private land owners  Oct 7, 2005
Grist:  Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your Species  Oct 7, 2005  NY Times Editorial:  Pombo's reform of the ESA is wholly misguided  Oct 9, 2005
Washington Post Editorial: Species reform bill is an entitlement package for landowners  Oct 10, 2005 Bob Lando:  Revised species act erodes consensus  Oct 10, 2005
Tidepool:  House takes an ax to the ESA  Oct 11, 2005 Dan Bacher:  Fishermen, Farmers Protest Assault On ESA  Oct 19, 2005
Buchal:  Why Pombo's ESA Reform Bill Is Step Backwards  Sept 29, 2005 Virginia Land Rights Coalition:  TESRA: Wolves dress not in sheep's clothing  Oct, 2005
Bozeman Daily Chronicle:  ESA close to reform  Oct 23, 2005
Julie Smithson:  TESRA, the ESA and the Truth   Oct 24, 2005
Florida Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite:  Endangered Species Act Is a Failure  Oct 25, 2005
Norm Semanko, Idaho Water Users Association executive director:  Updated ESA restores balance  Oct 17, 2005
Cattle Network Editorial:  The Endangered Species Act  Oct 2005 Roseburg News Review:  Lawyer: Species act needs changes  Oct 28, 2005
NY Times Editorial:  Pombo Time Oct 30, 2005 St. Mary's, GA Editorial:  The most dangerous man in America (Pombo) Oct 31, 2005
F&WS Press Release:   Norton Announces States Have Submitted Wildlife Action Plans  Nov 2, 2005 LA Times:   Habitats May Shrink by Leaps, Bounds  Nov 4, 2005
AP:  Groups say U.S. lags in species protection  Nov 8, 2005 Chicago Tribune:  Endangered Species Act in cross hairs  Nov 8, 2005
Mother Jones:  Endangering the Act  Nov 8, 2005 Indian Country Today:  Endangered species controversy rages on the Klamath River  Nov 14, 2005
Times-Standard:   Dozens of North Coast species in decline  Nov 16, 2005
Orlando Sentinel:  Suit: Some species no longer endangered  Nov 20, 2005
Steven Geoffrey Giesler:  Government hurts many by ESA violations  Nov 26, 2005
Baxter Black:  Potential new endangered species act a hit  Dec 3, 2005 US Senate:  Crapo, Lincoln Introduce Collaborative ESA Bill  Dec 15, 2005
Rep. Richard Pombo:   Statement on Crapo, Lincoln ESA Bill  Dec 15, 2005 National Center for Public Policy Research:  Senator Crapo's Endangered Species Act Reform Effort Bad for Property Owners   Dec 16, 2005
Newswise:  OR/WA Fish, Wildlife Commissions Move to Protect Green Sturgeon  Dec 16, 2005 Wall Street Journal:  Saving Law From Extinction  Dec 24, 2005
S. 2110:  `Collaboration for the Recovery of Endangered Species Act' North Coast Times:  Overhaul of Endangered Species Act taking shape  Jan 4, 2006
LA Times:  Alito May Quickly Affect Laws  Jan 15, 2006 Missoulian Opinion:  Make NEPA better, not weaker  Jan 15, 2005
The Monitor View:  Protecting the Species  Jan 18, 2006  E&E:  Inhofe expects ESA markup before spring  Jan 19, 2006
USF&WS:  2004 Report on Endangered Species Act Spending  Jan 24, 2006 Tom DeWeese:  A Bad Law Must Be Repealed  Feb 2, 2006
USF&WS:  Bush Budget Includes $2 Billion for FWS  Feb 6, 2006 USFWS:  Reopens Comment Period on Removing the Bald Eagle from the ESA  Feb 13. 2006
Mary Stump:  Endangered Sciences  Feb 15, 2006

Richard Pombo:  Update the Species Act  Feb 15, 2006

 Oregonian:  A winter sky alive with bald eagles  Feb 19, 2006

Jim Beers:  Responds to the Oregonian's 'A winter sky alive with bald eagles'  Feb 20, 2006
HRC Press Release:  Pombo, Cardoza: Keystone Center Reaffirms Need to Update and Modernize ESA  Feb 22, 2006 Sacramento Bee Opinion:  Bob Irvin (Defenders of Wildlife): Pombo's 'all-out assault'  Feb 22, 2006
Stockton, CA Record:  Report a boost for Pombo's ESA goals  (Keystone Report)  Feb 23, 2006 Tidepool:  Richard Pombo's Long Winter  Feb 21, 2006
AP:  One out of four endangered species dollars goes to salmon  Feb 25, 2006 National Center for Public Policy Research:  Protect Private Property Rights, 85 Groups Tell Senate, in Endangered Species Act Reform  Feb 27, 2006
Tidepool:  Accounting 101 for Endangered Species  March 1, 2006 Christian Science Monitor:  Endangered, but on road to recovery  March 2, 2006
WA Cathy McMorris:  New Legislation to Require ESA Cost Transparency  March 2, 2006 Julie Kay Smithson:  ESA Repeal for the Meek  March 10, 2006
New Scientist:  Doubts cast on superstar woodpecker's return  March 13, 2006 Fallon, NV Eagle:  Endangered Species Act: Time to reform old law  March 14, 2006
New West:  Key Environmental Law Ever-Tangled in Litigation  March 15, 2006 FWS:  Norton Announces Funding to States To Prevent Wildlife from Becoming Endangered   March 31, 2006
FWS:  Norton Announces Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration Apportionments to States   March 31, 2006 GAO:  Endangered Species:  Time and Costs Required to Recover Species Are Largely Unknown .pdf   April 6, 2006
Center for Biological Diversity:  Scott Bar Salamander Petitioned for Protection Under CA ESA   April 6, 2006 House Resource Committee Press Release:  GAO Report Shows Agencies Fail to Plan Adequately for Species Recovery   April 7, 2006
AP:  Prospects dimming for Senate passage of endangered species bill   April 8, 2006 Dennis Avery:  Native Stewardship?  April, 2006
New West:  Defining Environmental Justice, Finding a Common Voice   April 13, 2006

Working Group on Environmental Justice
Rep. Richard Pombo:   Act Has Not Performed Its Mission   April 21, 2006 Eureka Reporter:  NEC to hold annual dinner and auction to educate about health of the Klamath River   April 25, 2006
USFWS:  Service finds protections for Siskiyou Mountains and Scott Bar salamanders adequate   April 25, 2006 Center for Biological Diversity:  Siskiyou Mountains and Scott Bar Salamanders Illegally Denied Protection   April 25, 2006
Medford Mail Tribune:  Government says salamanders don't need listing   April 26, 2006 Jim Beers:  Nessie The Woodpecker   April 30, 2006
Center for Biological Diversity:  The Road to Recovery -  100 Success Stories for Endangered Species Day 2006   May 9, 2006 Center for Biological Diversity:  Wildlife Advocates Oppose Kempthorne for Interior Secretary   May 9, 2006
Tom DeWeese:  Landowner's Coalition Demands Repeal of ESA   May 10, 2006 Fallon Eagle Opinion:  The endangered landowner   May 10, 2006
San Diego, CA:  Spotlight on species - Endangered Species Day  May 10, 2006 NCPA:  Need For ESA Reform - Current Act Threaten Both Property Owners & Wildlife   May 10, 2006
AP:   Senate panel backs Kempthorne for Interior   May 10, 2006

House Resource Committee Press Release:   ESA Education   May 11, 2006
Idaho Statesman:  Hold placed on Kempthorne's nomination  May 11, 2006 Denver Post:  If confirmed, interior choice plans to overhaul species law   May 11, 2006
Washington Post:  Climate Is Cited as Key to Extinctions    May 11, 2006 Margaret Byfield:  It's Not About the Animals!   Feb 2006
Register-Guard OpEd:  ESA in the crosshairs: Kempthorne plans to overhaul law   May 13, 2006 USF&WS: