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id="toc-Standards_are_not_scalar" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Standards_are_not_scalar"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4 Standards are not scalar </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Standards_are_not_scalar-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Effectiveness" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Effectiveness"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5 Effectiveness </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Effectiveness-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Recovery_and_delistings_are_rare" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Recovery_and_delistings_are_rare"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.6 Recovery and delistings are rare </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Recovery_and_delistings_are_rare-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Delays_in_specifying_recovery_actions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Delays_in_specifying_recovery_actions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.7 Delays in specifying recovery actions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Delays_in_specifying_recovery_actions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Failure_to_implement_recovery_actions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Failure_to_implement_recovery_actions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.8 Failure to implement recovery actions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Failure_to_implement_recovery_actions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Stakeholder_initiatives_(with_or_without_listing)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Stakeholder_initiatives_(with_or_without_listing)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.9 Stakeholder initiatives (with or without listing) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Stakeholder_initiatives_(with_or_without_listing)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Collaborative_planning_on_private_lands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Collaborative_planning_on_private_lands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.10 Collaborative planning on private lands </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Collaborative_planning_on_private_lands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Species_awaiting_listing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Species_awaiting_listing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.11 Species awaiting listing </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Species_awaiting_listing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Taxonomic_status_and_hybridization" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Taxonomic_status_and_hybridization"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.12 Taxonomic status and hybridization </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Taxonomic_status_and_hybridization-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Critical_habitat" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Critical_habitat"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.13 Critical habitat </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Critical_habitat-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate_adaptation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate_adaptation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.14 Climate adaptation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate_adaptation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reversals_in_policy_track_presidential_elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reversals_in_policy_track_presidential_elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.15 Reversals in policy track presidential elections </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reversals_in_policy_track_presidential_elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Allocating_funds_among_listed_species" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Allocating_funds_among_listed_species"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.16 Allocating funds among listed species </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Allocating_funds_among_listed_species-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cost" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cost"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.17 Cost </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cost-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chronological_list_of_species_controversies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chronological_list_of_species_controversies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.18 Chronological list of species controversies </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chronological_list_of_species_controversies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Section-by-Section_Summaries_of_the_1973_Act" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Section-by-Section_Summaries_of_the_1973_Act"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Section-by-Section Summaries of the 1973 Act </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Section-by-Section_Summaries_of_the_1973_Act-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Section-by-Section Summaries of the 1973 Act subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Section-by-Section_Summaries_of_the_1973_Act-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Section_4:_Listing_and_Recovery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Section_4:_Listing_and_Recovery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Section 4: Listing and Recovery </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Section_4:_Listing_and_Recovery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Petition_and_listing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Petition_and_listing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.1 Petition and listing </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Petition_and_listing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Listing_process" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Listing_process"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.2 Listing process </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Listing_process-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Public_notice,_comments_and_judicial_review" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public_notice,_comments_and_judicial_review"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.3 Public notice, comments and judicial review </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public_notice,_comments_and_judicial_review-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Listing_status" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Listing_status"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.4 Listing status </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Listing_status-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Recovery_plan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Recovery_plan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.5 Recovery plan </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Recovery_plan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Downlisting_and_Delisting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Downlisting_and_Delisting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.6 Downlisting and Delisting </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Downlisting_and_Delisting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Section_6:_State_endangered_species_lists" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Section_6:_State_endangered_species_lists"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Section 6: State endangered species lists 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id="toc-Use_of_money_received_through_violations_of_the_ESA-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Footnotes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Footnotes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Footnotes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Footnotes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References_and_further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References_and_further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 References and further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References_and_further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item 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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>(colloquial)</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em">ESA</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.245em;line-height:1.15em;padding-right:0.65em">Nicknames</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em">Endangered Species Conservation Act</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.245em;line-height:1.15em;padding-right:0.65em">Enacted by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em">the <a href="/wiki/93rd_United_States_Congress" title="93rd United States Congress">93rd United States Congress</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.245em;line-height:1.15em;padding-right:0.65em">Effective</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em">December 27, 1973</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#bbddff">Citations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.245em;line-height:1.15em;padding-right:0.65em">Public law</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-87/pdf/STATUTE-87-Pg884.pdf">93–205</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.245em;line-height:1.15em;padding-right:0.65em"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">Statutes at Large</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em">87 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">Stat.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislink.org/us/stat-87-884">884</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#bbddff">Codification</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.245em;line-height:1.15em;padding-right:0.65em">Titles amended</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Title_16_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 16 of the United States Code">16 U.S.C.: Conservation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.245em;line-height:1.15em;padding-right:0.65em"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">U.S.C.</a> sections created</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Title_16_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 16 of the United States Code">16 U.S.C.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/chapter-35">ch. 35</a> §§ 1531-1544.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#bbddff"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d093:SN01983:@@@S">Legislative history</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em"><div><ul style="line-height:1.3em;text-align:left"><li>Introduced in the Senate as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/senate-bill/1983">S. 1983</a> by <a href="/wiki/Harrison_A._Williams" title="Harrison A. Williams">Harrison A. Williams</a> (<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">D</a>–<a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">NJ</a>) on June 12, 1973</li><li>Committee consideration by <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Committee on Commerce">Senate Commerce Committee</a></li><li>Passed the Senate on July 24, 1973 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/93-1973/s313">92–0</a>)</li><li>Passed the House on September 18, 1973 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/93-1973/h339">390–12</a>, in lieu of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-bill/37">H.R. 37</a>)</li><li>Reported by the joint conference committee on December 19, 1973; agreed to by the Senate on December 19, 1973 (agreed) and by the House on December 20, 1973 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/93-1973/h531">355–4</a>)</li><li>Signed into law by President <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> on December 28, 1973</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#bbddff">Major amendments</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress#Public_law,_private_law,_designation" title="Act of Congress"><abbr title="Public Law">Pub. L.</abbr></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/95/632">95–632</a>, 92 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">Stat.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislink.org/us/stat-92-3751">3751</a>, enacted November 10, 1978</li><li><a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress#Public_law,_private_law,_designation" title="Act of Congress"><abbr title="Public Law">Pub. L.</abbr></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/96/159">96–159</a>, 93 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">Stat.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislink.org/us/stat-93-1225">1225</a>, enacted December 28, 1979</li><li><a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress#Public_law,_private_law,_designation" title="Act of Congress"><abbr title="Public Law">Pub. L.</abbr></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/97/304">97–304</a>, 96 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large" title="United States Statutes at Large">Stat.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislink.org/us/stat-96-1411">1411</a>, enacted October 13, 1982</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#bbddff"><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">United States Supreme Court</a> cases</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.3em"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left; line-height:1em"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_437" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 437">437</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/437/153/">153</a> (1978)</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Lujan_v._Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife">Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_504" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 504">504</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/504/555/">555</a> (1992)</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Babbitt_v._Sweet_Home_Chapter_of_Communities_for_a_Great_Oregon" title="Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon">Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_515" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 515">515</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/515/687/">687</a> (1995)</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bennett_v._Spear&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bennett v. Spear (page does not exist)">Bennett v. Spear</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_520" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 520">520</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/520/154/">154</a> (1997)</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/National_Ass%27n_of_Home_Builders_v._Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife">National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_551" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 551">551</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/551/644/">644</a> (2007)</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Weyerhaeuser_Company_v._United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service">Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a>, No. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/586/17-71/">17-71</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_586" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 586">586</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> ___ (2018)</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service_v._Sierra_Club" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club">United States Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club</a>, No. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/592/19-547/">19-547</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_592" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 592">592</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> ___ (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 <a href="/wiki/Et_seq." class="mw-redirect" title="Et seq.">et seq.</a>) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from <a href="/wiki/Extinction" title="Extinction">extinction</a> as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation", the ESA was signed into law by President <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon#Environmental_policy" title="Presidency of Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> on December 28, 1973. The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> described it as "the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted by any nation".<a href="#cite_note-:0-1">[1]</a> The purposes of the ESA are two-fold: to prevent extinction and to recover species to the point where the law's protections are not needed. It therefore "protect[s] species and the ecosystems upon which they depend" through different mechanisms. For example, section 4 requires the agencies overseeing the Act to designate imperiled species as threatened or endangered. Section 9 prohibits unlawful 'take,' of such species, which means to "harass, harm, hunt..." Section 7 directs federal agencies to use their authorities to help conserve listed species. The Act also serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_International_Trade_in_Endangered_Species_of_Wild_Fauna_and_Flora" class="mw-redirect" title="Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora">Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora</a> (CITES).<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a>, the Supreme Court found that "the plain intent of Congress in enacting" the ESA "was to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost."<a href="#cite_note-:0-1">[1]</a> The Act is administered by two federal agencies, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> (FWS) and the <a href="/wiki/National_Marine_Fisheries_Service" title="National Marine Fisheries Service">National Marine Fisheries Service</a> (NMFS).<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> FWS and NMFS have been delegated by the Act with the authority to promulgate any rules and guidelines within the <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)</a> to implement its provisions. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> Calls for wildlife conservation in the United States increased in the early 1900s because of the visible decline of several species.<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> One example was the near-extinction of the <a href="/wiki/Bison" title="Bison">bison</a>, which used to number in the tens of millions. Similarly, the extinction of the <a href="/wiki/Passenger_pigeon" title="Passenger pigeon">passenger pigeon</a>, which numbered in the billions, caused concern.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Whooping_crane" title="Whooping crane">whooping crane</a> also received widespread attention as unregulated hunting and habitat loss contributed to a steady decline in its population. By 1890, it had disappeared from its primary breeding range in the north central United States.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Scientists of the day played a prominent role in raising public awareness about the losses. For example, <a href="/wiki/George_Bird_Grinnell" title="George Bird Grinnell">George Bird Grinnell</a> highlighted bison decline by writing articles in Forest and Stream.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> To address these concerns, Congress enacted the <a href="/wiki/Lacey_Act_of_1900" title="Lacey Act of 1900">Lacey Act of 1900</a>. The Lacey Act was the first federal law that regulated commercial animal markets.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> It also prohibited the sale of illegally killed animals between states (<a href="/wiki/Commerce_Clause" title="Commerce Clause">interstate commerce</a>). Other legislation followed, including the <a href="/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Conservation_Act" title="Migratory Bird Conservation Act">Migratory Bird Conservation Act</a>, a 1937 treaty prohibiting the hunting of right and gray whales, and the <a href="/wiki/Bald_and_Golden_Eagle_Protection_Act" title="Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act">Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act</a> of 1940.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Endangered_Species_Preservation_Act_of_1966">Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966">edit</a>]</div> Despite these treaties and protections, many populations still continued to decline. By 1941, only an estimated 16 whooping cranes remained in the wild.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> By 1963, the <a href="/wiki/Bald_eagle" title="Bald eagle">bald eagle</a>, the U.S. national symbol, was in danger of extinction. Only around 487 nesting pairs remained.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> Loss of habitat, shooting, and <a href="/wiki/DDT" title="DDT">DDT</a> poisoning contributed to its decline. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tried to prevent the extinction of these species. Yet, it lacked the necessary Congressional authority and funding.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> In response to this need, Congress passed the Endangered Species Preservation Act (<a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress#Public_law,_private_law,_designation" title="Act of Congress"><abbr title="Public Law">Pub. L.</abbr></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/89/669">89–669</a>) on October 15, 1966. The Act initiated a program to conserve, protect, and restore select species of native fish and wildlife.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> As a part of this program, Congress authorized the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land or interests in land that would further the conservation of these species.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGobleScottDavis200645-14">[14]</a> The Department of Interior issued the first list of endangered species in March 1967.<a href="#cite_note-1967-list-15">[15]</a> It included 14 mammals, 36 birds, 6 reptiles, 6 amphibians, and 22 fish.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> A few notable species listed in 1967 were the <a href="/wiki/Grizzly_bear" title="Grizzly bear">grizzly bear</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_alligator" title="American alligator">American alligator</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Indian_manatee" title="West Indian manatee">Florida manatee</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bald_eagle" title="Bald eagle">bald eagle</a>. The list included only vertebrates at the time because of the Department of Interior's limited definition of "fish and wildlife."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGobleScottDavis200645-14">[14]</a> The Endangered Species Preservation Act was repealed by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Endangered_Species_Conservation_Act_of_1969">Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act_of_1969" title="Endangered Species Act of 1969">Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969</a></div> The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 (<a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress#Public_law,_private_law,_designation" title="Act of Congress"><abbr title="Public Law">Pub. L.</abbr></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/91/135">91–135</a>) amended the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. It established a list of species in danger of worldwide extinction. It also expanded protections for species covered in 1966 and added to the list of protected species. While the 1966 Act only applied to 'game' and wild birds, the 1969 Act also protected <a href="/wiki/Mollusca" title="Mollusca">mollusks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crustacean" title="Crustacean">crustaceans</a>. Punishments for poaching or unlawful importation or sale of these species were also increased. Any violation could result in a $10,000 fine or up to one year of jail time.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Notably, the Act called for an international convention or treaty to conserve endangered species.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> A 1963 <a href="/wiki/International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature" title="International Union for Conservation of Nature">IUCN</a> resolution called for a similar international convention.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> In February 1973 a meeting in Washington, D.C. was convened. This meeting produced the comprehensive multilateral treaty known as <a href="/wiki/CITES" title="CITES">CITES</a>, or the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 provided a template for the Endangered Species Act of 1973 by using the term "based on the best scientific and commercial data." This standard is used as a guideline to determine if a species is in danger of extinction. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Passage_of_the_1973_Act">Passage of the 1973 Act</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Passage of the 1973 Act">edit</a>]</div> In 1972, President Nixon declared current species conservation efforts to be inadequate.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> He called on the <a href="/wiki/93rd_United_States_Congress" title="93rd United States Congress">93rd United States Congress</a> to pass comprehensive endangered species legislation. Congress responded with a completely rewritten law, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which was signed by Nixon on December 28, 1973 (<a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress#Public_law,_private_law,_designation" title="Act of Congress"><abbr title="Public Law">Pub. L.</abbr></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/93/205">93–205</a>). It was written by a team of lawyers and scientists, including Dr. <a href="/wiki/Russell_E._Train" title="Russell E. Train">Russell E. Train</a>, the first appointed head of the <a href="/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality" title="Council on Environmental Quality">Council on Environmental Quality</a> (CEQ), an outgrowth of the <a href="/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" title="National Environmental Policy Act">National Environmental Policy Act</a> (NEPA) of 1969.<a href="#cite_note-EPA-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-Distillations-23">[23]</a> Dr. Train was assisted by a core group of staffers, including Dr. Earl Baysinger at EPA, Dick Gutting, and Dr. Gerard A. "Jerry" Bertrand, a PhD marine biologist by training (Oregon State University, 1969), who had transferred from his post as the senior scientific adviser to the Commandant of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, office of the Commandant of the Corps., to join the newly formed White House CEQ. The staff, under Dr. Train's leadership, incorporated dozens of new principles and ideas into the landmark legislation but also incorporated previous laws, as was desired by Congressman <a href="/wiki/John_Dingell" title="John Dingell">John Dingell</a> (D-Michigan) when he first proposed the idea of an "Endangered Species Act." Among the staff, Dr. Bertrand is credited with having written major parts of the Act, including the infamous "takings" clause, <a href="/wiki/Title_16_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 16 of the United States Code">16 U.S.C.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/1538">§ 1538</a>. "We didn't know what we couldn't do," Dr. Bertrand has said about the Act. "We were doing what we thought was scientifically valid and right for the environment."<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Features_of_the_1973_Act">New Features of the 1973 Act</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: New Features of the 1973 Act">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Seal_of_the_United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service.svg/110px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Seal_of_the_United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service.svg/165px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Seal_of_the_United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service.svg/220px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="301" /></a><figcaption>Seal of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NOAA_Fisheries_logo_vertical.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/NOAA_Fisheries_logo_vertical.png/110px-NOAA_Fisheries_logo_vertical.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/NOAA_Fisheries_logo_vertical.png/165px-NOAA_Fisheries_logo_vertical.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/NOAA_Fisheries_logo_vertical.png/220px-NOAA_Fisheries_logo_vertical.png 2x" data-file-width="594" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>NOAA Fisheries logo</figcaption></figure> The Endangered Species Act is administered by two federal agencies, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> (FWS) and the <a href="/wiki/National_Marine_Fisheries_Service" title="National Marine Fisheries Service">National Marine Fisheries Service</a> (NMFS). NMFS handles <a href="/wiki/Marine_biology" title="Marine biology">marine species</a>, and the FWS has responsibility over <a href="/wiki/Freshwater_fish" title="Freshwater fish">freshwater fish</a> and all other species. Species that occur in both habitats (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Sea_turtle" title="Sea turtle">sea turtles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_sturgeon" title="Atlantic sturgeon">Atlantic sturgeon</a>) are jointly managed. As amended, it consists of 18 sections.<a href="#cite_note-FWS-18-sections-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-esa-pdf-26">[26]</a> Key legal requirements include: <ul><li>The federal government must determine whether species are endangered or threatened. If so, they must list the species for protection under the ESA (Section 4).</li> <li>If determinable, <a href="/wiki/Critical_habitat" title="Critical habitat">critical habitat</a> must be designated for listed species (Section 4).</li> <li>Absent certain limited situations (Section 10), it is illegal to "take" an endangered species (Section 9). "Take" can mean kill, harm, or harass (Section 3).</li> <li>Federal agencies will use their authorities to conserve endangered species and threatened species (Section 7).</li> <li>Federal agencies cannot jeopardize listed species' existence or destroy <a href="/wiki/Critical_habitat" title="Critical habitat">critical habitat</a> (Section 7).</li> <li>Any import, export, interstate, and foreign commerce of listed species is generally prohibited (Section 9).</li> <li>Endangered fish or wildlife cannot be taken without a take permit. This also applies to certain threatened animals with section 4(d) rules (Section 10).</li></ul> The 1973 Act is considered a landmark conservation law.<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> Academic researchers have referred to it as "one of the nation's most significant environmental laws."<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> It has also been called "one of the most powerful environmental statutes in the U.S. and one of the world's strongest species protection laws."<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> The Act itself has been amended four times: 1978, 1982, 1988,<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> and 1992.<a href="#cite_note-AP-aug-2023-28">[28]</a> Formal regulations published in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Register" title="Federal Register">Federal Register</a> that specify how the Act will be implemented have also changed through time.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> In recent years, U.S. presidential elections that greatly shift environmental priorities have culminated in regulatory shifts in endangered species management back and forth.<a href="#cite_note-Cronkite_News-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-Biden-2023-30">[30]</a> Congressional elections also affect implementation of the Act via expansions or contractions in annual funding decisions for the agencies.<a href="#cite_note-AP-aug-2023-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plants_become_eligible_for_listing">Plants become eligible for listing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Plants become eligible for listing">edit</a>]</div> A distinction of the 1973 Act is that, unlike the previous legislation, plants became eligible for listing. Section 12 directed the <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a> "to review (1) species of plants which are now or may become endangered or threatened and (2) methods of adequately conserving such species, and to report to Congress, within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the results of such review including recommendations for new legislation or the amendment of existing legislation."<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> As a result, the first plant listings occurred in 1977.<a href="#cite_note-plos-2023-32">[32]</a> Fifty years later, significantly more species of plants were listed in the highest category (endangered) than animals: 766 plants and 486 animals.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Torreya_Guardians_homepage_image.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Torreya_Guardians_homepage_image.jpg/220px-Torreya_Guardians_homepage_image.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Torreya_Guardians_homepage_image.jpg/330px-Torreya_Guardians_homepage_image.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Torreya_Guardians_homepage_image.jpg/440px-Torreya_Guardians_homepage_image.jpg 2x" data-file-width="928" data-file-height="1340" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Torreya_Guardians" title="Torreya Guardians">Torreya Guardians</a> homepage image, with <a href="/wiki/Torreya_taxifolia" title="Torreya taxifolia">Florida torreya tree</a> photo</figcaption></figure> Historians attribute this new-found concern for imperiled plants to ongoing global treaty negotiations (especially in 1972 and 1973) toward what would eventually be adopted in 1975<a href="#cite_note-campbell-34">[34]</a> under the title, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (<a href="/wiki/CITES" title="CITES">CITES</a>). Prior to this time, attention to the conservation needs of native plants had been stalled by complications that do not pertain to animals. How to adequately distinguish plants illegally collected in the wild from plants propagated from seeds or cuttings taken from horticultural specimens was among the points of contention.<a href="#cite_note-campbell-34">[34]</a> Ultimately, federal authority over enforcement of endangered plant protections has centered on regulation of <a href="/wiki/Commerce_clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Commerce clause">interstate commerce</a> of such plants.<a href="#cite_note-shirey-35">[35]</a> This legal distinction for plants became controversial in practice when a group of citizens, <a href="/wiki/Torreya_Guardians" title="Torreya Guardians">Torreya Guardians</a>, chose to help an endangered <a href="/wiki/Glacial_relict" title="Glacial relict">glacial relict</a> plant, <a href="/wiki/Torreya_taxifolia" title="Torreya taxifolia">Florida Torreya</a>, move to cooler poleward climates before conservation professionals were ready to begin their own experimentation with <a href="/wiki/Assisted_migration" title="Assisted migration">assisted migration</a> of endangered species.<a href="#cite_note-theconversation.com-36">[36]</a> Because movement of seeds and seedlings by this group was noncommercial and based on horticulturally produced specimens, there was no legal apparatus to halt their actions.<a href="#cite_note-shirey-35">[35]</a> Another distinction is that, when an animal is listed as endangered or threatened, "taking" of that animal (by capture or killing) becomes a violation of the Act. For plants, "taking" occurs only within the boundaries of federal properties.<a href="#cite_note-plos-2023-32">[32]</a> Even so, states may choose to legislate and enforce prohibitions even on private lands,<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> as occurred in 2023 when the State of California passed a law that prevented killing or removal of the western variety of <a href="/wiki/Yucca_brevifolia" title="Yucca brevifolia">Joshua tree</a> wherever it was found. <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">Climate change</a> risk was a key factor in the determination.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-joshua-37">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Two_categories_for_listing_species">Two categories for listing species</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Two categories for listing species">edit</a>]</div> The Act distinguished two grades of species for listing: "endangered" and a lesser category called "threatened". An endangered species is in danger of extinction now; a threatened species faces such a threat in "the foreseeable future."<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> The aim for the lesser category is to enable protective actions by federal agencies at an earlier time, such that the causes of population decline might be corrected before emergency concerns develop.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> Controversy also arises as to whether and what differences in recovery plan elements, and thus management policies and restrictions, should distinguish "threatened" from "endangered."<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-Biden-2023-30">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Five_criteria_for_making_listing_decisions">Five criteria for making listing decisions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Five criteria for making listing decisions">edit</a>]</div> The Act specifies the types of causes to be identified in species decline, any one of which might be severe enough to merit listing the species as threatened or endangered. Also known as the "five factors", the set of possible causes entail:<blockquote> <ul><li>the present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of its habitat or range</li> <li>overutilization for commercial, recreational, scientific, or educational purposes</li> <li>disease or predation</li> <li>the inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms</li> <li>other natural or manmade factors affecting its survival<a href="#cite_note-factors-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-section-4-39">[39]</a></li></ul></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recovery_plans_must_be_made_and_published">Recovery plans must be made and published</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Recovery plans must be made and published">edit</a>]</div> A key provision of the 1973 Act was that "preventing extinction" would no longer be sufficient. Rather, "recovery" of listed species, such that "delisting" could become possible, was now a stated goal. "Recovery plans" were now to be developed and published by the two agencies in charge: the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Marine_Fisheries_Service" title="National Marine Fisheries Service">National Marine Fisheries Service</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> In practice, recovery plans usually include population targets and "objective, measurable criteria" that would constitute adequate reduction of threats and provision of habitat protection" such that delisting (or down-listing from "endangered" to "threatened") would be warranted.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Critical_habitat"_may_be_designated">"Critical habitat" may be designated</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: "Critical habitat" may be designated">edit</a>]</div> The 1973 Act introduced the concept of what is now called "critical habitat" in only one brief passage. Section 7 required federal agencies to ensure that actions they authorized, funded, or carried out would not result in "the destruction or modification of habitat of such species which is determined by the Secretary, after consultation as appropriate with affected States, to be critical."<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> When the Act was amended in 1978, "critical habitat" was given a definition and basic terms for how it would be determined and used.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> (As will be seen in the "Controversies" section, this provision was sometimes challenging to implement for both scientific and political reasons.) <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citizens_can_petition_for_listing_species">Citizens can petition for listing species</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Citizens can petition for listing species">edit</a>]</div> A review of the Act published in 2009 recounted the unavoidable problems that arose from granting opportunities even for citizens to submit petitions for species listing: <blockquote>Soon after the Endangered Species Act was enacted, Congress recognized that at any given time there were likely to be more species potentially eligible for listing than the Service could address through the rule-making process. As a result, Congress in 1979 directed the Service to develop a prioritization system that would enable it to determine which of the potentially eligible species should be considered first. The Service responded with listing priority guidance that established a hierarchy of priorities based first on the magnitude of threat, then upon its imminence, and finally upon taxonomic distinctiveness (with monotypic genera ranked ahead of other species, and full species ranked ahead of subspecies).<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> </blockquote> Requirements that listing decisions be made based on scientific evidence and considerations, coupled with an inability of the agencies to expand and contract staffing based on shifts in the volume of outstanding petitions, induced Congress in 1982 to amend the Act by establishing deadlines for agency decisions.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> As of 2023, those deadlines still nominally apply, but in practice it is rare for a petitioner to approach the judicial system to force a decision before the agency is able to finish the job on its own timetable.<a href="#cite_note-Bean_369–391-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Challenges_and_Controversies">Challenges and Controversies</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Challenges and Controversies">edit</a>]</div> In 2023, with the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) achieving its 50th anniversary, journalists were prompted to report on the Act's outcomes and controversies. Congressional overturning of several recent listings and ability to hamper implementation by restricting agency funding were among the points mentioned by some media.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> In contrast, a foundation associated with the Western Caucus of U.S. senators and representatives issued a 116-page report in 2023 titled "The Endangered Species Act at 50", with a subtitle expressing its primary criticism that "a record of falsified recoveries underscores a lack of scientific integrity in the federal program."<a href="#cite_note-gordon-2023-41">[41]</a> Among the faculty expressing views in a University of Pennsylvania report, one drew attention to an underlying shift in national worldviews during the past half-century: The Act "reflects the confidence of mid-20th century liberal politics that any problem can be fixed with legislation based on scientific data," yet pragmatic solutions that require flexibility have been hindered and polarization has become intense.<a href="#cite_note-penn-2023-42">[42]</a> An academic review paper in 2008 reported that the Act had become "a social, legal, and political battleground" and that "the scientific question of whether the ESA works effectively to protect species remains open."<a href="#cite_note-schwartz-2008-43">[43]</a> Specific challenges and long-term controversies are summarized in this section. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_consequences_and_perverse_incentives">Economic consequences and perverse incentives</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Economic consequences and perverse incentives">edit</a>]</div> Because the Act allowed species to be listed as endangered without consideration of the economic consequences, it soon became and continues to be controversial.<a href="#cite_note-Loller-2023-44">[44]</a> Costs conferred on private landowners and various industries may come in the form of lost opportunity or slowing down operations to comply with the regulations put forth in the Act. Notably, in 1978 the <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter_controversy" title="Snail darter controversy">listing of a tiny fish (snail darter)</a> shut down for several years construction of a dam that was already underway on the <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a>.<a href="#cite_note-hcn-2023-45">[45]</a> More broadly, the requirement to consult with the relevant agencies on federal projects has at times slowed operations by the oil and gas industry, including exploration or development on federal lands rich in fossil fuels.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dryobates_borealis_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Dryobates_borealis_map.svg/110px-Dryobates_borealis_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Dryobates_borealis_map.svg/165px-Dryobates_borealis_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Dryobates_borealis_map.svg/220px-Dryobates_borealis_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1712" data-file-height="1992" /></a><figcaption>Range map of <a href="/wiki/Red-cockaded_woodpecker" title="Red-cockaded woodpecker">red-cockaded woodpecker</a></figcaption></figure> One widely held opinion thus is that the protections afforded to listed species curtail economic activity.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> In the extreme, economic consequences can induce <a href="/wiki/Perverse_incentives" class="mw-redirect" title="Perverse incentives">perverse incentives</a> by which landowners actively curtail their lands from attracting endangered species. An example in the eastern USA pertains to the endangered <a href="/wiki/Red-cockaded_woodpecker" title="Red-cockaded woodpecker">red-cockaded woodpecker</a>. A study of some 1,000 privately owned forest plots within the range of the woodpecker found that when landowners observed pine growth maturing to a stage in which it might attract nesting woodpeckers, they were more likely to harvest – regardless of timber prices at the time.<a href="#cite_note-:22-48">[48]</a> This is a form of intentional <a href="/wiki/Habitat_destruction" title="Habitat destruction">habitat destruction</a> for avoiding economic consequences. Legislators have expressed that the ESA has been "weaponized," particularly against western states, constraining state government choices about the use of public lands.<a href="#cite_note-western-49">[49]</a> The case of the protracted dispute over the <a href="/wiki/Greater_sage-grouse" title="Greater sage-grouse">greater sage-grouse</a> is one such example,<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2010-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-CBD-2024-51">[51]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Spotted_owl" title="Spotted owl">spotted owl</a> is another.<a href="#cite_note-boyt-52">[52]</a> In the extreme is the largely western saying pertaining to endangered animals, such as wolves: "<a href="/wiki/Shooting,_shoveling,_and_shutting_up" class="mw-redirect" title="Shooting, shoveling, and shutting up">shoot, shovel, and shut up</a>."<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-bailey-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-penn-2023-42">[42]</a> Rep. <a href="/wiki/Don_Young" title="Don Young">Don Young</a> (Alaska), the longest-serving Republican congressman, said in 2018, "As the one person in the Congress, the only one, that voted for the Endangered Species Act, please beat me with a whip."<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> Some economists have stated that finding a way to reduce such perverse incentives would lead to more effective protection of endangered species.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> One suggestion for ending perverse incentives would be to compensate property owners for protecting endangered species, rather than having an endangered species regarded as a potential financial loss.<a href="#cite_note-bailey-53">[53]</a> As well, while the standard to prevent jeopardy or adverse modification applies only to federal activities, non-federal activities are subject to Section 10 of the Act,<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> and private activities on private lands may require federal discretionary permits (such as those required by the <a href="/wiki/Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water Act</a>, Section 404) and thereby triggering Section 7 of the ESA.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Incentives_for_stopping_development">Incentives for stopping development</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Incentives for stopping development">edit</a>]</div> Controversy sometimes roils when the timing of a petition to list a new species overlaps with plans for or initiation of a development project that could be impeded by such a listing. A news editorial marking the 50th anniversary of the Act suggested that "the ESA became the weapon of choice for environmental groups seeking to stop projects or tear down others. Lawsuits by the score have been filed over projects large and small, setting off ill feelings toward environmental groups."<a href="#cite_note-capital-press-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Risk_assessment">Risk assessment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Risk assessment">edit</a>]</div> The Act points to science professionals as "solely" responsible for making extinction risk assessments. Governmental policies as shaped by various and changing public interests are necessarily the arbiters of how numerical statements of extinction risk should be gauged in context of other kinds of national risks and priorities. In a multi-author report published in 2016, the <a href="/wiki/Ecological_Society_of_America" title="Ecological Society of America">Ecological Society of America</a> explained how this kind of controversy develops:<blockquote> Any decision to list a species also requires a policy judgment regarding how much risk to that species is acceptable. Science can inform the decision by determining the degree of risk a species faces, but science alone cannot determine whether the risk is acceptable.... Stakeholders with divergent views about acceptable levels of extinction risk frequently mount legal challenges over whether species need to be listed, whether they are endangered or threatened, how much habitat represents a "significant portion" of a species' range, and other key elements of ESA implementation.<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Standards_are_not_scalar">Standards are not scalar</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Standards are not scalar">edit</a>]</div> Once a species is listed, the statutory imperative to prevent extinction precludes scalar considerations in federal permitting of development projects. Economic or other societal benefits, no matter how significant, are not to impede upon scientific decision-making in assessing the degree to which a project would subject a listed species to additional extinction risk. An historic example is the 1978 judicial decision in favor of a tiny fish (the <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter_controversy" title="Snail darter controversy">snail darter</a>) — even though that decision halted construction of a dam that was already underway on the <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a>.<a href="#cite_note-hcn-2023-45">[45]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tiehm_buckwheat,_Eriogonum_tiehmii_(15068315794).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Tiehm_buckwheat%2C_Eriogonum_tiehmii_%2815068315794%29.jpg/220px-Tiehm_buckwheat%2C_Eriogonum_tiehmii_%2815068315794%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Tiehm_buckwheat%2C_Eriogonum_tiehmii_%2815068315794%29.jpg/330px-Tiehm_buckwheat%2C_Eriogonum_tiehmii_%2815068315794%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Tiehm_buckwheat%2C_Eriogonum_tiehmii_%2815068315794%29.jpg/440px-Tiehm_buckwheat%2C_Eriogonum_tiehmii_%2815068315794%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Tiehm buckwheat, Eriogonum tiehmii</figcaption></figure> A listed plant example of non-scalar approaches to endangered species management happened in October 2024. While a federal permit was awarded for a new <a href="/wiki/Lithium" title="Lithium">lithium</a> mining project in Nevada, the purported societal and climate benefits of lithium for electric vehicle manufacturing were not a component of the written decision. Rather, geographic boundaries of operation were set to preclude direct impact on the several populations of the endangered <a href="/wiki/Eriogonum_tiehmii" title="Eriogonum tiehmii">Tiehm's buckwheat</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AP-buckwheat-59">[59]</a> The buckwheat example also displays the lack of scalar considerations regarding species uniqueness and ecological importance, as these were not components of the 2022 listing decision nor of the environmental permitting decision required for lithium mining. Scientific expertise alone determines if an animal or plant is certified as a distinct species, rather than a mere variety of an existing species. An academic dissertation informing the listing decision for Tiehm's buckwheat concluded that, of all the species of genus Eriogonum in Nevada, "seven of the thirteen non-tiehmii taxa appear to be close relatives."<a href="#cite_note-cecil-2022-60">[60]</a> The author included in his final paragraph the challenges of non-scalar approaches to environmental decision-making:<blockquote> The battle of human need versus habitat conservation is constant. The situation Tiehm’s buckwheat finds itself, stuck between conservation of its ~25,000 individuals or eradication to allow access to needed resources, is certainly complicated. There are potential services it could provide that are yet to be discovered. If mining were to commence it is unlikely to survive and those services could be lost. If the mining operation is halted or modified to protect E. tiehmii, the global need of lithium may begin to outweigh the supply, and potentially cause delays in technological advances that are aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.<a href="#cite_note-cecil-2022-60">[60]</a> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Effectiveness">Effectiveness</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Effectiveness">edit</a>]</div> As of 2023, an aggregate of 1,780 species had been listed through the years as "endangered" or a less severe category of "threatened". While 99% of the total species are still alive, critics have pointed out that only 64 species improved enough to be removed from the list ("delisted"). Another 64 improved enough to be "downlisted" from endangered to threatened. Only 11 species have been declared extinct after they were listed, but another 23 species have gone missing for so long that they have been proposed for official designation as extinct.<a href="#cite_note-AP_2023-08-04-61">[61]</a> Some have argued that the recovery of imperiled flesh-eating birds (notably, the <a href="/wiki/Bald_eagle" title="Bald eagle">bald eagle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brown_pelican" title="Brown pelican">brown pelican</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peregrine_falcon" title="Peregrine falcon">peregrine falcon</a>) should be attributed to the 1972 ban of the pesticide <a href="/wiki/DDT" title="DDT">DDT</a> by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency">EPA</a>, rather than the Endangered Species Act.<a href="#cite_note-capital-press-58">[58]</a> Supporters of the Act argue that listing these species as endangered led to additional actions that were also crucial for species recovery (i.e., captive breeding, habitat protection, and protection from disturbance).<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-falcon-2024-64">[64]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Usfws-freshwater-mussels.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Usfws-freshwater-mussels.jpg/220px-Usfws-freshwater-mussels.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Usfws-freshwater-mussels.jpg/330px-Usfws-freshwater-mussels.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Usfws-freshwater-mussels.jpg/440px-Usfws-freshwater-mussels.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1999" data-file-height="1333" /></a><figcaption>Examples of freshwater <a href="/wiki/Mussel" title="Mussel">mussels</a> imperiled in the eastern USA</figcaption></figure> Among the most difficult species to protect are <a href="/wiki/Mussel" title="Mussel">mussels</a> because they depend on adequate amounts of clean and flowing freshwater. Home to approximately 300 mussel species, the eastern region of the USA is the center of global diversity for these freshwater <a href="/wiki/Molluscs" class="mw-redirect" title="Molluscs">molluscs</a>. However, 65 percent of them are threatened or endangered.<a href="#cite_note-mussel_2023-65">[65]</a> The 1988 Congressional amendments to the Act included a new section, Section 18, to aid effectiveness evaluations by having each of the two implementing agencies periodically report cumulative federal funding (and, to some degree, state funding) on a species-by-species basis.<a href="#cite_note-section-18-66">[66]</a> As of 2023, the most recent report to Congress was by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and presented expenditures cumulative through fiscal year 2020.<a href="#cite_note-Frederico-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-expenditures-2020-68">[68]</a> The report entailed these statistics: "Of the 1,388 status reviews completed, 93 percent (1,294) recommend no change in status for the species, 3 percent (40) recommend reclassifying from endangered to threatened, 3 percent (38) recommend delisting (22 due to extinction, 13 due to recovery, and 3 due to error), 1 percent (13) recommend reclassifying from threatened to endangered, and less than 1 percent (2) recommend a revision to the listed entity."<a href="#cite_note-USFWS-2020-69">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recovery_and_delistings_are_rare">Recovery and delistings are rare</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Recovery and delistings are rare">edit</a>]</div> Critics of the Act have noted that, despite its goal of recovering species to the point of delisting, this has rarely happened. As of 2023 (fifty years after its passage), an aggregate of 1,780 species had been listed through the years as endangered or the less severe category of threatened. Of that total, 64 species improved enough to be removed from the list. Another 64 improved enough to be "downlisted" from endangered to threatened. While 11 species have been declared extinct since implementation of the law began, another 23 species have gone missing for so long that they have been proposed for official designation as extinct.<a href="#cite_note-AP_2023-08-04-61">[61]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Leatherback_Sea_Turtle_(17665415746).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Leatherback_Sea_Turtle_%2817665415746%29.jpg/220px-Leatherback_Sea_Turtle_%2817665415746%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Leatherback_Sea_Turtle_%2817665415746%29.jpg/330px-Leatherback_Sea_Turtle_%2817665415746%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Leatherback_Sea_Turtle_%2817665415746%29.jpg/440px-Leatherback_Sea_Turtle_%2817665415746%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Leatherback_sea_turtle" title="Leatherback sea turtle">Leatherback sea turtle</a> returning to the ocean after laying eggs in sand pits it had dug in the upper beach</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/National_Marine_Fisheries_Service" title="National Marine Fisheries Service">National Marine Fisheries Service</a> lists eight species (or populations of a species) as among the most at risk of extinction in the near future. These animals are the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_salmon" title="Atlantic salmon">Atlantic salmon</a>; the Central California Coast <a href="/wiki/Coho_salmon" title="Coho salmon">coho salmon</a>; the Cook Inlet <a href="/wiki/Beluga_whale" title="Beluga whale">beluga whale</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_monk_seal" title="Hawaiian monk seal">Hawaiian monk seal</a>; the Pacific <a href="/wiki/Leatherback_sea_turtle" title="Leatherback sea turtle">leatherback sea turtle</a>; the Sacramento River winter-run <a href="/wiki/Chinook_salmon" title="Chinook salmon">chinook salmon</a>; the southern resident population of <a href="/wiki/Orca" title="Orca">killer whale</a>; and the <a href="/wiki/Haliotis_sorenseni" title="Haliotis sorenseni">white abalone</a>. Human activities are presented as the primary cause of extinction threats for all these species. The two implementing agencies have a combined record of changing species status from threatened to endangered on nine occasions, while the number of status improvements from endangered to threatened is greater.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> A widely used statistic supporting effectiveness of the Act is that 99 percent of listed species have not gone extinct.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> In 2012 the <a href="/wiki/Center_for_Biological_Diversity" title="Center for Biological Diversity">Center for Biological Diversity</a> issued a report that surveyed a sample of 110 listed species and concluded that 90 percent of them were recovering "at the rate specified by their federal recovery plan."<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> On the opposing side of the spectrum, a foundation associated with the Western Caucus of U.S. senators and representatives issued a 116-page report in 2023 that points to data and statements made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service during the past half-century that can be interpreted as disputing proclamations of success.<a href="#cite_note-gordon-2023-41">[41]</a> Specifically, statements of numbers of species "recovered" do not distinguish between those delisted owing to actual improvement in populations versus those for which the original population numbers were later found to have been greatly underestimated. Had the science been more in line with reality at the start, this report claims 36 of the 62 species reported by the agency as officially recovered would not have achieved listing at the outset.<a href="#cite_note-gordon-2023-41">[41]</a> Controversy also develops when the science used to support a delisting decision differs from the numerical population thresholds included in the species recovery plan. A 2012 court case upheld that the published recovery criteria are not legally binding for later delisting decisions.<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Delays_in_specifying_recovery_actions">Delays in specifying recovery actions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Delays in specifying recovery actions">edit</a>]</div> Listing of a species "triggers two overlapping types of conservation measures: extinction prevention and recovery actions."<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> An official document required by the Act has come to be known as a recovery plan. The Act "gives few guidelines for their preparation and content and does not specify a deadline for how soon after listing the Services must complete recovery plans."<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> A 2023 report on the Act issued by <a href="/wiki/Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="Defenders of Wildlife">Defenders of Wildlife</a> calculated that "265 species listed under the Act lack recovery guidance of any kind, while 370 additional species lack final recovery guidance." The group also noted that more than half of the existing recovery plans were more than 20 years old.<a href="#cite_note-Defenders-2023-74">[74]</a> Besides alleged funding inadequacies,<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Defenders-2023-74">[74]</a> several inherent problems have been pointed to for delays in agency translation of scientific findings into actions beyond extinction prevention and thus actively toward species recovery. One such problem is the "knowledge—action boundary" that distinguishes conservation scientists from conservation managers. That is, how can scientific scholarship be made actionable, and thereby contribute directly to forward-moving policies and practices?<a href="#cite_note-cook-2013-75">[75]</a> Impediments to generating boundary-spanning <a href="/wiki/Conservation_biology" title="Conservation biology">conservation science</a> include "a reward structure in science that promotes publication and grant income rather than engaging with conservation practitioners."<a href="#cite_note-cook-2013-75">[75]</a> Distrust across the boundary may also develop if conservation managers perceive that ESA funding allocated to research or monitoring reduces what is available for recovery actions.<a href="#cite_note-cook-2013-75">[75]</a> "Fear of failure in conservation" is another factor that contributes to agency and manager hesitancy to undertake recovery actions for which there is no certainty of success.<a href="#cite_note-meek-2015-76">[76]</a> There are two reasons why scientists themselves may abstain from recommending actions. One is fear that making such recommendations may compromise their status as objective researchers whose conclusions can be trusted. A second is fear that a recommended action that is undertaken but then fails may injure their reputation. These fears may be heightened when recommendations pertain to a species for which controversy has developed or one whose population has declined so drastically that any manipulation of the species or its habitat may later be denounced as contributing to its further decline or extinction.<a href="#cite_note-meek-2015-76">[76]</a> Thus there are multiple reasons why recovery programs for some species "may be trapped in a cycle where more resources are allocated to information gathering versus action."<a href="#cite_note-buxton-2020-77">[77]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Failure_to_implement_recovery_actions">Failure to implement recovery actions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Failure to implement recovery actions">edit</a>]</div> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service itself has recognized that specifying in a written plan the actions to achieve recovery goals falls short of ensuring that such actions will take place.<a href="#cite_note-recovery-planning-78">[78]</a> Indeed, the agency recognizes that "Recovery plans are guidance and not regulatory documents, and no agency or entity is required by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to implement actions in a recovery plan."<a href="#cite_note-recovery-79">[79]</a> Therefore, beginning in 2016, the agency augmented standard recovery planning by shifting to a three-part framework. Statutory and regulatory requirements for producing an initial recovery plan are still fulfilled, including opportunities for public comments. The plan is to be written and published in the customary way, and it continues to be subject to the "five year review" process. However, two new kinds of working documents can be developed, posted, and updated as needed for each listed species.<a href="#cite_note-recovery-planning-78">[78]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Usfs-2016-ssa-full_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Usfs-2016-ssa-full_02.jpg/220px-Usfs-2016-ssa-full_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Usfs-2016-ssa-full_02.jpg/330px-Usfs-2016-ssa-full_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Usfs-2016-ssa-full_02.jpg/440px-Usfs-2016-ssa-full_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="662" data-file-height="902" /></a><figcaption>"Species Status Assessment Framework" of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service<a href="#cite_note-SSA-80">[80]</a></figcaption></figure> The first updatable document is a Species Status Assessment (SSA). It is "a biological risk assessment to aid decision makers who must use the best available scientific information to make policy decisions under the ESA." As new papers are published and rigorous data collected, the SSA can be updated and reposted as warranted.<a href="#cite_note-SSA-80">[80]</a> As of November 2024, 416 listed or petitioned species have had an SSA completed and posted on the FWS aggregate list.<a href="#cite_note-SSA-list-81">[81]</a> SSA updates may, in turn, stimulate changes in the third part of the new framework: the Recovery Implementation Strategy (RIS). While recovery actions are policy level decisions that will continue to be delineated in the official recovery plan, the RIS serves as "a short-term, more flexible operational document focused on how, when, and with whom the recovery actions will be implemented."<a href="#cite_note-recovery-planning-78">[78]</a> A single species may ultimately have a number of RIS documents posted — each pertaining to a different entity, such as a land trust or botanical garden, that steps forward (with or without federal funding) to voluntarily engage in one or more specific recovery actions:<blockquote> The RIS is to be developed with conservation partners outside of the agency, and focuses on the period of time and scope of activities that work best for those collaborators to achieve recovery goals. Many RISs can be developed, specific to partners and/or activities, and can cover varying timeframes, as needed. If multiple RISs are developed, an 'umbrella framework' (an overarching RIS) outlining the relationships and priorities among the individual RISs is developed to ensure strategic implementation of the overall recovery program for the species.<a href="#cite_note-recovery-planning-78">[78]</a></blockquote> Because the agency had been criticized for lacking "clear distinctions between science input and policy application," four FWS agency scientists along with two colleagues in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Geological_Survey" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Geological Survey">U.S. Geological Survey</a> published a paper in 2018 in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. Titled, "Development of a Species Status Assessment Process for Decisions under the U.S. Endangered Species Act," the authors determined that "the SSA results in a scientific report distinct from policy application, which contributes to streamlined, transparent, and consistent decision-making and allows for greater technical participation by experts outside of the USFWS, for example, by state natural resource agencies."<a href="#cite_note-Smith-2018-82">[82]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stakeholder_initiatives_(with_or_without_listing)">Stakeholder initiatives (with or without listing)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Stakeholder initiatives (with or without listing)">edit</a>]</div> With or without listing, there are opportunities for stakeholders themselves to begin actions on their own. This especially applies to habitat improvements. If suitable habitat for a species can be found on private, state, municipal, or tribal lands, there is no need to wait for the federal agency to offer or specify in-place actions. The parties can expand and improve such habitats on their own. For example, a <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> report in 2023 in behalf of the endangered <a href="/wiki/Karner_blue" title="Karner blue">Karner blue</a> butterfly included a recommendation to "encourage entities (city, state, county, tribal, federal) with sandy soils north of the current range to plant Lupinus perennis and nectar plants" in anticipation of future authorization for "<a href="/wiki/Assisted_migration" title="Assisted migration">managed relocation</a>" of populations threatened by heat and drought in southerly portions of the butterfly's historical range.<a href="#cite_note-nps-2023-83">[83]</a> While there are legal limitations on what citizens and other stakeholders can do directly for listed animal species, the field is wide open for obtaining horticulturally produced seeds and specimens of listed plants and then conducting plantings on their own.<a href="#cite_note-shirey-35">[35]</a> A well-known example is a network of citizens who call themselves <a href="/wiki/Torreya_Guardians" title="Torreya Guardians">Torreya Guardians</a>. <a href="/wiki/Torreya_taxifolia" title="Torreya taxifolia">Florida Torreya</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Glacial_relict" title="Glacial relict">glacial relict</a> species of subcanopy tree that was listed as endangered in 1984. Since 2004, the citizen group has been using seeds from mature plantings on private lands in <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a><a href="#cite_note-TG-seeds-84">[84]</a> (and since 2018 also from their own plantings in <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a><a href="#cite_note-TG-Ohio-85">[85]</a>) to engage in a form of <a href="/wiki/Assisted_migration" title="Assisted migration">assisted migration</a> poleward of this climate-endangered plant.<a href="#cite_note-theconversation.com-36">[36]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pinus_albicaulis_range_map_2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Pinus_albicaulis_range_map_2.png/220px-Pinus_albicaulis_range_map_2.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Pinus_albicaulis_range_map_2.png/330px-Pinus_albicaulis_range_map_2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Pinus_albicaulis_range_map_2.png/440px-Pinus_albicaulis_range_map_2.png 2x" data-file-width="2869" data-file-height="2868" /></a><figcaption>Historically native range of the <a href="/wiki/Whitebark_Pine" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitebark Pine">Whitebark Pine</a></figcaption></figure> Prior to listing of a species, stakeholders who wish to act in its behalf have freedom to engage with not only habitat but with the species itself. A well-known example entails actions taken in behalf of the subalpine <a href="/wiki/Pinus_albicaulis" title="Pinus albicaulis">Whitebark Pine</a> of the northern <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a> soon after vast stands suddenly began to die in <a href="/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park" title="Yellowstone National Park">Yellowstone National Park</a> and elsewhere. A petition for listing was submitted in 2008, but status as "threatened" was not conferred until 2022. By then, collaboration among concerned parties was well underway without agency direction.<a href="#cite_note-yale-2024-86">[86]</a> Supportive research and actions were undertaken by the conservation organization <a href="/wiki/American_Forests" title="American Forests">American Forests</a> as well as a new organization specific to the tree: the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> Other collaborators include research scientists within the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Forest_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Forest Service">U.S. Forest Service</a>, geneticists at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Davis" title="University of California, Davis">University of California, Davis</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Confederated_Salish_and_Kootenai_Tribes" title="Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes">Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes</a>. The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Bureau_of_Land_Management" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Bureau of Land Management">U.S. Bureau of Land Management</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> were also involved in consultation prior to listing by the agency in charge of endangered species: the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</a>.<a href="#cite_note-yale-2024-86">[86]</a> Controversy is also apparent, though rare, when stakeholders entail activists who regard the "political-economic regime" not as the source of solutions but as "the root cause of biodiversity loss."<a href="#cite_note-mermet-2020-88">[88]</a> In such instances <a href="/wiki/Rewilding_(conservation_biology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rewilding (conservation biology)">guerrilla rewilding</a> of rare species has been known to occur.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collaborative_planning_on_private_lands">Collaborative planning on private lands</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Collaborative planning on private lands">edit</a>]</div> The 1982 amendments to the Act's Section 10 authorized collaborative engagement of the implementing agencies with landowners in producing <a href="/wiki/Habitat_Conservation_Plan" title="Habitat Conservation Plan">Habitat Conservation Plans</a>. Such a plan is a required part of an application for an <a href="/wiki/Incidental_Take_Permit" class="mw-redirect" title="Incidental Take Permit">Incidental Take Permit</a>, issued under the Act to private entities undertaking projects that might result in harm to a listed species. The intent is to deter controversy by building into the plan practices for minimizing harm to listed species and their core habitat needs (including seasonal peaks in use). A validated plan then absolves the developer from harms that may incidentally occur to the species, when following the plan. Securing landowner pledges of habitat enhancement measures during the planning process can serve to defuse opposition from the public and other stakeholders.<a href="#cite_note-HCP-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-HCP-Coalition-92">[92]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Piping_plover_(8740854611).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Piping_plover_%288740854611%29.jpg/120px-Piping_plover_%288740854611%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Piping_plover_%288740854611%29.jpg/180px-Piping_plover_%288740854611%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Piping_plover_%288740854611%29.jpg/240px-Piping_plover_%288740854611%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="844" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Piping_plover" title="Piping plover">Piping plover</a> in its Atlantic beach nesting habitat</figcaption></figure> Habitat conservation plans have been successfully deployed to reduce conflicts between a type of beach-nesting shorebird, <a href="/wiki/Piping_plover" title="Piping plover">piping plover</a>, and recreational beach users in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>.<a href="#cite_note-HCP-Coalition-92">[92]</a> Such plans also apply to the <a href="/wiki/Red-cockaded_woodpecker" title="Red-cockaded woodpecker">red-cockaded woodpecker</a> of forests in the southeastern states.<a href="#cite_note-HCN-1997-93">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-:22-48">[48]</a> In 2023, habitat conservation planning for <a href="/wiki/Grizzly_bear" title="Grizzly bear">grizzly bears</a> in the northern <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a> became controversial when an increase in bear deaths caused by trains was reported, along with acknowledgment by the agency that several million dollars of federal funds for the plan participants had not yet been provided for them to engage in their specified mitigation actions.<a href="#cite_note-griz-2023-94">[94]</a> Summing up the practical difficulties in a 2023 report on the Act, <a href="/wiki/Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="Defenders of Wildlife">Defenders of Wildlife</a> pointed to underfunding as a continuing problem and that the agencies "lack adequate resources to develop, approve, and monitor these plans, and there are significant data gaps in how many of these plans are performing."<a href="#cite_note-Defenders-2023-74">[74]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Species_awaiting_listing">Species awaiting listing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Species awaiting listing">edit</a>]</div> A 2019 report found that the Fish and Wildlife Service faced a backlog of more than 500 species that have been determined to potentially warrant protection.<a href="#cite_note-PS-2019-95">[95]</a> A 2022 report pointed to severe population declines while species await listing decisions as a major problem impeding eventual recovery success.<a href="#cite_note-Wildlife_Society_2022-96">[96]</a> The decision to list or defer listing of a petitioned species is supposed to take no more than 2 years after a petition is filed. However, on average it takes the agency 12 years to finalize a decision.<a href="#cite_note-Puckett_etal2016-97">[97]</a> An analysis published in 2016 by the <a href="/wiki/Ecological_Society_of_America" title="Ecological Society of America">Ecological Society of America</a> found that approximately 50 species may have gone extinct while awaiting a listing decision.<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> Additional funding might enable the agency to direct more resources toward biological assessments of petitioned species and determine if they merit a listing decision.<a href="#cite_note-MJ-2023-98">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> An additional issue is that species still listed under the Act may already be extinct. For example, the <a href="/wiki/IUCN_Red_List" title="IUCN Red List">IUCN Red List</a> declared the <a href="/wiki/Scioto_madtom" title="Scioto madtom">Scioto madtom</a> extinct in 2013. It had last been seen alive in 1957.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> However, FWS still classifies the catfish as endangered.<a href="#cite_note-PS-2019-95">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taxonomic_status_and_hybridization">Taxonomic status and hybridization</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Taxonomic status and hybridization">edit</a>]</div> Implementation of the ESA of 1973 is based on "the best available science," beginning with <a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">taxonomic classification</a>. The petitioned group of organisms must first qualify as a bona fide <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a> or <a href="/wiki/Subspecies" title="Subspecies">subspecies</a>. Isolated populations or varieties of otherwise common species may be considered for listing only if they are <a href="/wiki/Vertebrates" class="mw-redirect" title="Vertebrates">vertebrates</a>.<a href="#cite_note-zink-2022-101">[101]</a> Given the <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolutionary processes</a> by which species arise and continue to change, there is no consensus that could provide a singular definition or standard for the agency to use. Classification is therefore determined on a case-by-case basis.<a href="#cite_note-Conbio-2016-102">[102]</a> This in itself can make the posting of a listing decision vulnerable to public attack.<a href="#cite_note-Erwin-2017-103">[103]</a> Overturn of the <a href="/wiki/Chevron_deference" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevron deference">Chevron deference</a> by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024 may have amplified classification as grounds for litigation by opponents of endangered species listings.<a href="#cite_note-Chevron-2024-104">[104]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dusky_Seaside_Sparrow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Dusky_Seaside_Sparrow.jpg/170px-Dusky_Seaside_Sparrow.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Dusky_Seaside_Sparrow.jpg/255px-Dusky_Seaside_Sparrow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Dusky_Seaside_Sparrow.jpg/340px-Dusky_Seaside_Sparrow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3658" /></a><figcaption>Dusky Seaside Sparrow </figcaption></figure> Classification boundaries that are imprecise because of geographically remote or interpenetrating <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)" title="Hybrid (biology)">hybrid populations</a> pose additional challenges for agency staff attempting to ground listing decisions on "best available science."<a href="#cite_note-Erwin-2017-103">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-CZ-2015-105">[105]</a> It is not unusual for listing decisions to become complicated by the presence of hybrids, and the forms of hybridization are diverse. To begin, improvements in <a href="/wiki/Conservation_genomics" title="Conservation genomics">conservation genomics</a> established that the already-listed <a href="/wiki/Red_wolf" title="Red wolf">red wolf</a> evolved as a hybrid of native <a href="/wiki/Gray_wolves" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray wolves">gray wolves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coyotes" class="mw-redirect" title="Coyotes">coyotes</a> who interbred in the eastern states.<a href="#cite_note-red-wolf-2016-106">[106]</a> The problem compounded when the red wolf population managed on a coastal island became populous enough for geographic range experimentation. Individuals released onto the mainland routinely interbred with the far more populous coyotes, and <a href="/wiki/Genetic_swamping" class="mw-redirect" title="Genetic swamping">genetic swamping</a> ensued.<a href="#cite_note-Erwin-2017-103">[103]</a> Other listed animals embroiled in hybridization controversies include the <a href="/wiki/Golden-winged_warbler" title="Golden-winged warbler">golden-winged warbler</a>,<a href="#cite_note-warbler-107">[107]</a> <a href="/wiki/Westslope_cutthroat_trout" title="Westslope cutthroat trout">westslope cutthroat trout</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wood_bison" title="Wood bison">wood bison</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_massasauga_rattlesnake" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern massasauga rattlesnake">eastern massasauga rattlesnake</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Erwin-2017-103">[103]</a> Only once has hybridization been an intentional recovery action, known as <a href="/wiki/Genetic_rescue" title="Genetic rescue">genetic rescue</a>. This was applied to the <a href="/wiki/Florida_panther" title="Florida panther">Florida panther</a> when <a href="/wiki/Cougars" class="mw-redirect" title="Cougars">cougars</a> from Texas were intentionally released into its habitat to counter ongoing decline owing to <a href="/wiki/Inbreeding" title="Inbreeding">inbreeding</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Erwin-2017-103">[103]</a> This openness to using hybridization to outright save a species contrasted with the agency's decision to deny cross-breeding of the <a href="/wiki/Dusky_seaside_sparrow" title="Dusky seaside sparrow">dusky seaside sparrow</a> with its sister species: <a href="/wiki/Scott%27s_seaside_sparrow" title="Scott's seaside sparrow">Scott's seaside sparrow</a>. The dusky was declared extinct in 1987.<a href="#cite_note-Erwin-2017-103">[103]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_habitat">Critical habitat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Critical habitat">edit</a>]</div> As habitat loss is regarded as the primary threat to most imperiled species,<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 allowed the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to designate specific areas as protected <a href="/wiki/Critical_habitat" title="Critical habitat">critical habitat</a> zones.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGobleScottDavis200689-108">[108]</a> The designation of critical habitat does not affect land ownership. It does not allow the government to take or manage private property, nor to establish a refuge, reserve, preserve, or other conservation area. Critical habitat designation does not allow unauthorized government access to private land. Such designation can, however, restrict activities allowable on private lands.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> In 1978, Congress amended the law to make critical habitat designation a mandatory requirement for all threatened and endangered species. The amendment also added <a href="/wiki/Economy" title="Economy">economics</a> into the process of determining such designation. It reads, "...shall designate critical habitat... on the basis of the best scientific data available and after taking into consideration the economic impact, and any other impact, of specifying... area as critical habitat."<a href="#cite_note-ref-110">[110]</a> The congressional report on the 1978 amendment described a potential controversy that might ensue, given that "economic impact" was included in the amendment:<blockquote> "... the critical habitat provision is a startling section which is wholly inconsistent with the rest of the legislation. It constitutes a loophole which could readily be abused by any Secretary ... who is vulnerable to political pressure or who is not sympathetic to the basic purposes of the Endangered Species Act."-- House of Representatives Report 95-1625, at 69 (1978)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society200168-111">[111]</a> </blockquote> The controversy did arise and thus the 1982 amendment to the Act explicitly prohibited similar economic considerations when determining the status of a species.<a href="#cite_note-CBD-112">[112]</a> In designating critical habitat, the needs of open space for individual and population growth, food, water, light or other nutritional requirements, breeding sites, seed germination and dispersal needs, and lack of disturbances are considered.<a href="#cite_note-CBD-112">[112]</a> As itemized within a 2008 review paper on the Endangered Species Act, designation of critical habitat is the first priority for agency action following listing of a species. Next is formulation of a recovery plan.<a href="#cite_note-schwartz-2008-43">[43]</a> Not all recovery plans, however, specify critical habitat. Setting aside this requirement is authorized if the agency head determines that its designation would not be "prudent."<a href="#cite_note-CRS-2021-113">[113]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2024_USFWS_ESA_grants.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/2024_USFWS_ESA_grants.jpg/330px-2024_USFWS_ESA_grants.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="530" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/2024_USFWS_ESA_grants.jpg/495px-2024_USFWS_ESA_grants.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/2024_USFWS_ESA_grants.jpg/660px-2024_USFWS_ESA_grants.jpg 2x" data-file-width="872" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Sample of federal grants in 2024 for endangered species habitat support<a href="#cite_note-2024-grants-114">[114]</a></figcaption></figure> Most provisions of the ESA revolve around preventing extinction. Critical habitat is one of the few that focus on recovery. A 2005 paper published in the journal <a href="/wiki/BioScience" title="BioScience">BioScience</a> concluded that species afforded critical habitat are twice as likely to be recovering than are species without critical habitat.<a href="#cite_note-TaylorSuckling2005-115">[115]</a> A 2016 report published by the <a href="/wiki/Ecological_Society_of_America" title="Ecological Society of America">Ecological Society of America</a> stated that data were inconclusive on this matter because "in practice, the Services often exempt habitat degradation from regulation. As a result, designating critical habitat has had limited regulatory effect."<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> Overall, disagreement as to the effectiveness of critical habitat designation is expressed in a number of different reports.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-CBD-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society200186-117">[117]</a> Another controversy arises from the Act specifying that critical habitat designation is required to contain "all areas essential to the conservation" of the imperiled species, and may include private as well as public lands. The Fish and Wildlife Service has a policy limiting designation to lands and waters within the U.S., and both federal agencies may exclude essential areas if they determine that economic or other costs exceed the benefit. The ESA, however, is mute about how such costs and benefits are to be determined.<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> All federal agencies are prohibited from authorizing, funding, or carrying out actions that "destroy or adversely modify" critical habitats (Section 7(a) (2)). While the regulatory aspect of critical habitat does not apply directly to private and other non-federal landowners, large-scale development, logging, and mining projects on private and state land typically require one or more federal permits and thus become subject to critical habitat regulations. Outside or in parallel with regulatory processes, critical habitats also focus and encourage voluntary actions such as land purchases, grant making, restoration, and establishment of <a href="/wiki/Nature_reserve" title="Nature reserve">reserves</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SucklingTaylor2006-118">[118]</a> The Act's specification of the timing of critical habitat designations has also become problematic. The ESA requires that critical habitat be designated at the time of or within one year of a species being placed on the endangered list. In practice, most designations occur several years after listing.<a href="#cite_note-SucklingTaylor2006-118">[118]</a> Between 1978 and 1986, the FWS regularly designated critical habitat. In 1986 the <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan administration</a> issued a <a href="/wiki/Regulation" title="Regulation">regulation</a> limiting the protective status of critical habitat. As a result, few critical habitats were designated between 1986 and the late 1990s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a series of <a href="/wiki/Court_order" title="Court order">court orders</a> invalidated the Reagan regulations and forced the FWS and NMFS to designate several hundred critical habitats, especially in <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, and other western states. Midwest and eastern states received less critical habitat, primarily on rivers and coastlines. As of December 2006, the Reagan regulation had not yet been replaced, though its use had been suspended. Nonetheless, the agencies have generally changed course. Since about 2005, both have tried to designate critical habitat at or near the time of listing.<a href="#cite_note-SucklingTaylor2006-118">[118]</a> A species-specific example of the judiciary setting geographic boundaries on the agency's ability to designate critical habitat happened in 2018. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the critical habitat designation of a segment of private timberlands in <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> was invalid because the endangered <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_gopher_frog" title="Mississippi gopher frog">dusky gopher frog</a> had been extirpated from that state for half a century.<a href="#cite_note-frog-2018-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-frog-2021-120">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate_adaptation">Climate adaptation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Climate adaptation">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trillium_reliquum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Trillium_reliquum.jpg/220px-Trillium_reliquum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Trillium_reliquum.jpg/330px-Trillium_reliquum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Trillium_reliquum.jpg/440px-Trillium_reliquum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The seeds of <a href="/wiki/Trillium_reliquum" title="Trillium reliquum">Relict trillium</a> are dispersed by ants, hindering its ability to track climate change.<a href="#cite_note-relict-trillium-121">[121]</a></figcaption></figure> Although the Endangered Species Act of 1973 did not in itself limit the placement of "experimental populations" to the historically native range of a plant or animal,<a href="#cite_note-section-10-122">[122]</a> a regulatory change in 1984 regarding "experimental populations" made prospective translocations more difficult to justify.<a href="#cite_note-Science-2023-123">[123]</a> June 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a proposed rule in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Register" title="Federal Register">Federal Register</a> that would "revise section 10(j) regulations under the ESA to better facilitate recovery by allowing for the introduction of listed species to suitable habitats outside of their historical ranges. The proposed change would help improve the conservation and recovery of imperiled ESA-listed species in the coming decades, as growing impacts from <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> and <a href="/wiki/Invasive_species" title="Invasive species">invasive species</a> cause habitats within their historical ranges to shift and become unsuitable."<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> The comment period ended August 2022, with more than 500 comments posted online by supporters and opponents.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> The final decision was scheduled for publication June 2023.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> As reported on the news page of <a href="/wiki/Audubon" title="Audubon">Audubon</a>, adoption of the proposed regulatory change would authorize, for the first time, use of a controversial climate adaptation tool: <a href="/wiki/Assisted_migration" title="Assisted migration">assisted migration</a>.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> A 2010 paper in Conservation Letters had pointed out that, while no statutory changes appeared necessary to facilitate this newly proposed form of climate adaptation, "current regulations are an impediment to assisted colonization for many endangered animal species, whereas regulations do not necessarily restrict assisted colonization of endangered plants."<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> The U.S. Department of Interior on June 30, 2023, announced its decision to modify the section 10(j) "experimental populations" rule generally as proposed a year earlier.<a href="#cite_note-sierra-2023-129">[129]</a> The press release summarized the reason for the change as:<blockquote> At the time the original 10(j) regulations were established, the potential impact of climate change on species and their habitats was not fully realized, yet in the decades since have become even more dramatic. These revisions will help prevent extinctions and support the recovery of imperiled species by allowing the Service and our partners to implement proactive, conservation-based species introductions to reduce the impacts of climate change and other threats such as invasive species.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a></blockquote> The rulemaking action includes a section summarizing 25 topics entailed in comments submitted in 2022, along with the agency's official response to each.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> Pre-existing requirements pertaining to experimental populations in the <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Code of Federal Regulations</a> (CFR) still apply. Plans to use "Subpart H: experimental populations" for the purpose of <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation" title="Climate change adaptation">climate change adaptation</a> thus require public notice and ultimate placement in the "Species-specific rules" subpart of the CFR regulations of the precise geographic and other details.<a href="#cite_note-CFR-experimental-132">[132]</a> Six months after this <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation" title="Climate change adaptation">climate adaptation</a> regulation for listed species was published, the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> issued a 154-page report on recommendations for halting the decline of the endangered <a href="/wiki/Karner_blue" title="Karner blue">Karner blue butterfly</a> in its small and scattered populations across the northeastern states. Among the recommendations were "<a href="/wiki/Managed_relocation" class="mw-redirect" title="Managed relocation">managed relocation</a>" of populations from the southern parts of its range into northward habitats with suitable conditions and supportive plants. The report justified the managed relocation action by noting that stakeholders and managers "are growing more supportive of novel science-based interventions to save rare species from climate change–driven extirpation."<a href="#cite_note-nps-2023-83">[83]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reversals_in_policy_track_presidential_elections">Reversals in policy track presidential elections</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Reversals in policy track presidential elections">edit</a>]</div> In October 2019, at the urging of the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Legal_Foundation" title="Pacific Legal Foundation">Pacific Legal Foundation</a> and the Property and Environment Research Center,<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> the USFWS and the NMFS under <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">President Donald Trump</a> changed the §4(d) rule to treat "threatened" and "critically endangered" species differently, legalizing private recovery initiatives and habitats for species that are merely "threatened."<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> Environmental opponents criticized the revision as "crashing like a bulldozer" through the act and "tipping the scales way in favor of industry."<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> Some critics, including the <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club">Sierra Club</a>, pointed out that these changes came just months after the <a href="/wiki/IPBES" class="mw-redirect" title="IPBES">IPBES</a> released its <a href="/wiki/Global_Assessment_Report_on_Biodiversity_and_Ecosystem_Services" title="Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services">Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services</a>, which found that human activity had pushed a million species of <a href="/wiki/Flora" title="Flora">flora</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fauna" title="Fauna">fauna</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Holocene_extinction" title="Holocene extinction">brink of extinction</a>, and would only serve to exacerbate the crisis.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> The California legislature passed a bill to raise California regulations to thwart the Trump administration changes; it was vetoed by <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Newsom" title="Gavin Newsom">Governor Newsom</a>.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> In January 2020, the <a href="/wiki/House_Natural_Resources_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Natural Resources Committee">House Natural Resources Committee</a> reported similar legislation.<a href="#cite_note-Cronkite_News-29">[29]</a> In December 2020, the Trump administration further rolled back the Endangered Species Act by reducing habitat protections for at-risk species, and thus restricting protections to where they currently live—not where they lived previously or where they might migrate to as a result of <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> In June 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Biden_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Biden administration">Biden administration</a> said it was reviewing the Trump era rollback of the Endangered Species Act and planned to reverse or revise some of the changes, in particular those relating to critical habitat regulations. Such reversals became law in May 2024.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> A critic commented, "It seems to be one of those rules/regulations/things going on in Washington D.C. that like to flip-flop with each administration while seeing no actual finality."<a href="#cite_note-ag-news-2024-145">[145]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sage_and_Gunnison_Grouse_Centrocercus_urophasianus_and_minimus_distribution_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Sage_and_Gunnison_Grouse_Centrocercus_urophasianus_and_minimus_distribution_map.png/220px-Sage_and_Gunnison_Grouse_Centrocercus_urophasianus_and_minimus_distribution_map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Sage_and_Gunnison_Grouse_Centrocercus_urophasianus_and_minimus_distribution_map.png/330px-Sage_and_Gunnison_Grouse_Centrocercus_urophasianus_and_minimus_distribution_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Sage_and_Gunnison_Grouse_Centrocercus_urophasianus_and_minimus_distribution_map.png/440px-Sage_and_Gunnison_Grouse_Centrocercus_urophasianus_and_minimus_distribution_map.png 2x" data-file-width="701" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>Sage and Gunnison Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus and minimus distribution map</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Greater-sage_grouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater-sage grouse">greater-sage grouse</a> is one declining species for which listing petitions have generated policy responses that flip-flop with presidential (and sometimes Congressional) election results. Because the bird's <a href="/wiki/Artemisia_(plant)" title="Artemisia (plant)">sagebrush</a> habitat ranges through ten western states and because much of that habitat is within the jurisdiction of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Bureau_of_Land_Management" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Bureau of Land Management">U.S. Bureau of Land Management</a>, the affected states have advocated for collaborative decision-making as a more malleable alternative to federal designation of the grouse as a threatened species.<a href="#cite_note-wyoming-2024-146">[146]</a> The first petition was submitted during the George W. Bush administration, with policy deliberations carrying into President Obama's time in office during which a court order forced a decision on whether or not to list the bird as threatened. "Warranted but precluded" was the decision in 2010 that effectively pushed decision-making into an undetermined future time.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2010-50">[50]</a> In April 2014, the Sage-Grouse and Endangered Species Conservation and Protection Act (H.R.4419)<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> was passed in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>. This statute prohibited the federal government from listing sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act for 10 years, so long as states prepared and carried out plans to protect the species within their borders.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> A collaborative plan (without formal listing) was finally signed in 2015. It carried through the first Trump administration and into the Biden administration.<a href="#cite_note-CBD-2024-51">[51]</a> A few days after the 2024 election results determined that Donald J. Trump would resume the presidency, the Biden administration offered an updated draft plan.<a href="#cite_note-wyoming-2024-146">[146]</a> Many national-level environmental groups communicated support for the plan. Several, however, pressed for the outgoing administration to formally list the species as threatened, thereby invoking more environmentally stringent decision-making on resource development proposals on federal lands, especially those administered by the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Interior" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Interior">U.S. Department of Interior</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CBD-2024-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-wyoming-2024-146">[146]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Allocating_funds_among_listed_species">Allocating funds among listed species</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Allocating funds among listed species">edit</a>]</div> The Fish & Wildlife Service has developed a four-factor prioritization system for analyzing tradeoffs in distributing funds among the listed species: degree of threat, potential for recovery, taxonomic uniqueness, and conflict with human activities. Even so, the 2016 special report on the Act by the <a href="/wiki/Ecological_Society_of_America" title="Ecological Society of America">Ecological Society of America</a> concluded that the agency's decisions on apportioning funds are "more often driven by political and social factors, including congressional representation, the number of employees in field offices, staff workload, and opportunities to form partnerships and secure matching funds."<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> As well, the report stated, "Critics point out that recovery efforts are focused disproportionately on charismatic species, to the detriment of others, particularly plants." As well, there is no requirement that federal agencies (or any other institution) implement any of the actions specified in the recovery plan.<a href="#cite_note-plos-2023-32">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cost">Cost</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Cost">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FWS-endangered-species-expenditures-2020.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/FWS-endangered-species-expenditures-2020.png/220px-FWS-endangered-species-expenditures-2020.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/FWS-endangered-species-expenditures-2020.png/330px-FWS-endangered-species-expenditures-2020.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/FWS-endangered-species-expenditures-2020.png/440px-FWS-endangered-species-expenditures-2020.png 2x" data-file-width="1070" data-file-height="1360" /></a><figcaption>Report by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fiscal year 2020</figcaption></figure> While <a href="/wiki/Ecocentric" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecocentric">ecocentric</a> views may motivate current supporters of well-funded efforts to implement the ESA, the <a href="/wiki/Ecocentrism" title="Ecocentrism">intrinsic value</a> of species was not written into the 1973 statute. According to a 2019 paper published in the journal <a href="/wiki/Conservation_Biology_(journal)" title="Conservation Biology (journal)">Conservation Biology</a>, the highest annual cost linked to the recovery plan of a single species was $38.7 million per year for the delta smelt.<a href="#cite_note-cost-2019-150">[150]</a> The statute itself requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to inform Congress of annual expenditures individually accounted for each species. Its report of 2020 (fiscal year) expenditures entailed many pages of tabulations. One such list organized the species from greatest to least annual expenditures. <a href="/wiki/Chinook_Salmon" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinook Salmon">Chinook Salmon</a> of Puget Sound was at the top of the list: $62 million. All but one of the 26 highest ranked species live in aquatic habitats; 25 of those are fish. The one exception is the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_right_whale" title="North Atlantic right whale">North Atlantic right whale</a>.<a href="#cite_note-expenditures-2020-68">[68]</a> A reptile first shows up on the list as species rank 27. It is the <a href="/wiki/Desert_tortoise" title="Desert tortoise">desert tortoise</a>, and its recovery actions entailed $8 million in 2020. Next comes the <a href="/wiki/Manatee" title="Manatee">manatee</a> and soon thereafter the first birds: <a href="/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl" title="Northern spotted owl">northern spotted owl</a> and <a href="/wiki/Red-cockaded_woodpecker" title="Red-cockaded woodpecker">red-cockaded woodpecker</a>. Those were also in the $8 million range. The <a href="/wiki/Grizzly_bear" title="Grizzly bear">grizzly bear</a> is ranked 46, and it is in the $4 million range. The first insect, <a href="/wiki/Oregon_silverspot_butterfly" class="mw-redirect" title="Oregon silverspot butterfly">Oregon silverspot butterfly</a> is 139th on the list; its 2020 expenses were $737 thousand. The <a href="/wiki/American_burying_beetle" class="mw-redirect" title="American burying beetle">American burying beetle</a> is the next insect, at $673 thousand.<a href="#cite_note-expenditures-2020-68">[68]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicrophorus_americanus,_American_Burying_Beetle_(female)_%E2%80%94_walking.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Nicrophorus_americanus%2C_American_Burying_Beetle_%28female%29_%E2%80%94_walking.jpg/170px-Nicrophorus_americanus%2C_American_Burying_Beetle_%28female%29_%E2%80%94_walking.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Nicrophorus_americanus%2C_American_Burying_Beetle_%28female%29_%E2%80%94_walking.jpg/255px-Nicrophorus_americanus%2C_American_Burying_Beetle_%28female%29_%E2%80%94_walking.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Nicrophorus_americanus%2C_American_Burying_Beetle_%28female%29_%E2%80%94_walking.jpg/340px-Nicrophorus_americanus%2C_American_Burying_Beetle_%28female%29_%E2%80%94_walking.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1918" data-file-height="1918" /></a><figcaption>American Burying Beetle</figcaption></figure> One has to scroll down to the 159th highest annual expenditure in order to find the first plant. It is a <a href="/wiki/Keystone_species" title="Keystone species">keystone species</a> of coastal waters that provides expansive <a href="/wiki/Ecosystem_services" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecosystem services">ecosystem services</a>: <a href="/wiki/Seagrass" title="Seagrass">seagrass</a>. Immediately following the seagrass is <a href="/wiki/American_crocodile" title="American crocodile">American crocodile</a> and <a href="/wiki/California_condor" title="California condor">California condor</a>. All three are just under $600 thousand apiece.<a href="#cite_note-expenditures-2020-68">[68]</a> At the opposite end of financial support are species that received the least in 2020. Of the 1,599 domestic threatened and endangered species ranked in the long series of tables, 668 species were each allocated less than $10,000. One plant, one fish, and one snail were in the lowest rank; each was managed with $100.<a href="#cite_note-expenditures-2020-68">[68]</a> Cumulative expenditures in fiscal year 2020 for all 1,599 species were also calculated. The total came to $1,083,913,007.<a href="#cite_note-expenditures-2020-68">[68]</a> This compares to the 2018 fiscal year budget total of $1,269,621,055. The reporting framework differs from year to year. In 2018, the federal government cost for acquiring lands as critical habitat totaled $105,469,496, of which 45% came from the FWS agency budget and the rest from other federal sources.<a href="#cite_note-FWS-2018-151">[151]</a> Land acquisition expenditures were not included in the 2020 report.<a href="#cite_note-expenditures-2020-68">[68]</a> As of 2024, the main FWS agency page that lists and links its annual ESA expenditures begins with the 1989 report and runs through 2020. No expenditure reports are listed thereafter.<a href="#cite_note-FWS-reports-all-152">[152]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chronological_list_of_species_controversies">Chronological list of species controversies</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Chronological list of species controversies">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Snail_darter_FWS_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Snail_darter_FWS_1.jpg/170px-Snail_darter_FWS_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Snail_darter_FWS_1.jpg/255px-Snail_darter_FWS_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Snail_darter_FWS_1.jpg/340px-Snail_darter_FWS_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1906" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Snail_darter" title="Snail darter">Snail darter</a></figcaption></figure> In 1978, a small species of fish in the southeastern USA was listed as endangered. A conflict arose because a dam was already under construction within its native range and was scientifically deemed as damaging to its necessary habitat. What came to be known as the <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter_controversy" title="Snail darter controversy">snail darter controversy</a> gained national attention. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibited dam completion, which was then overridden when Congress exempted the <a href="/wiki/Tellico_Dam" title="Tellico Dam">Tellico Dam</a> from provisions of the ESA.<a href="#cite_note-hcn-2023-45">[45]</a> Subsequently, more populations of the species were discovered in rivers other than the <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a> where the dam was constructed, and in 2022 the species was removed from the federal endangered list.<a href="#cite_note-usfws-2022-snail-darter-153">[153]</a> Nonetheless, the fact that the Endangered Species Act effectively halted major construction underway in behalf of a small species of fish put an end to the wide political support that had accompanied passage of the Act.<a href="#cite_note-hcn-2023-45">[45]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gymnogyps_californianus_-upper_body-8.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gymnogyps_californianus_-upper_body-8.jpg/170px-Gymnogyps_californianus_-upper_body-8.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gymnogyps_californianus_-upper_body-8.jpg/255px-Gymnogyps_californianus_-upper_body-8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gymnogyps_californianus_-upper_body-8.jpg/340px-Gymnogyps_californianus_-upper_body-8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="699" data-file-height="699" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/California_condor" title="California condor">California condor</a></figcaption></figure> In 1982, despite protests from some environmental organizations, the recovery plan for the endangered <a href="/wiki/California_condor" title="California condor">California condor</a> began implementing the capture of all 22 wild birds that remained.<a href="#cite_note-Loller-2023-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> By the early 1990s, the captive breeding effort was successful enough to begin returning some of the progeny to the wild—including the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon" title="Grand Canyon">Grand Canyon</a> from which this <a href="/wiki/Carrion" title="Carrion">carrion</a>-feeding bird had been missing for at least several centuries. In 2001 the first wild nesting was recorded in the Grand Canyon.<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> As of 2022, the species had a wild population of 350 individuals and a captive population of 214.<a href="#cite_note-gordon-2023-41">[41]</a> In 1987 an extirpated eastern relative of the <a href="/wiki/Gray_wolf" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray wolf">gray wolf</a> was reintroduced into <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> following more than a decade of captive breeding. Controversy accelerated when the state wildlife agency liberalized hunting regulations for <a href="/wiki/Coyote" title="Coyote">coyotes</a>. Because the endangered <a href="/wiki/Red_wolf" title="Red wolf">red wolf</a> resembles its coyote relative far more than the larger gray wolf does, the number of mistaken shootings of the endangered species began to seriously impact the population. As well, detractors of red wolf protection pointed to the genetic deterioration of later generations of red wolves in the wild, as they easily interbreed with coyotes.<a href="#cite_note-Defenders-2023-74">[74]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Spotted_Owl_(8434206372)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Northern_Spotted_Owl_%288434206372%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Northern_Spotted_Owl_%288434206372%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Northern_Spotted_Owl_%288434206372%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/255px-Northern_Spotted_Owl_%288434206372%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Northern_Spotted_Owl_%288434206372%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/340px-Northern_Spotted_Owl_%288434206372%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="1320" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl" title="Northern spotted owl">Northern spotted owl</a></figcaption></figure> In 1988 another controversy arose that drew national attention, when the <a href="/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl" title="Northern spotted owl">Northern spotted owl</a> was listed as endangered.<a href="#cite_note-boyt-52">[52]</a> This species depended on intact and mature coastal forests in the states of <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>. And this, in turn, posed new restrictions on logging of national forest lands in those regions—which severely affected workers in small logging towns. Not until 1994 did adoption by the federal government of the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Forest_Plan" title="Northwest Forest Plan">Northwest Forest Plan</a>, along with a community financial aid packet, bring a close to peak hostilities between loggers and those defending owl habitat.<a href="#cite_note-hcn-2023-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-hcn-2023b-156">[156]</a> Preventing human destruction of habitat did not, however, result in species recovery. Natural immigration of a bigger and more aggressive owl species (the <a href="/wiki/Barred_owl" title="Barred owl">barred owl</a>) that was formerly native only to the eastern states became a major cause of continuing population decline of the spotted owl.<a href="#cite_note-mapes-2023-157">[157]</a> The government's decision to employ sharpshooters to cull the barred owl population presents a challenging ethical issue within conservation thinking.<a href="#cite_note-owl-nautilus-158">[158]</a> Another ESA controversy that erupted in the 1990s entailed the <a href="/wiki/Wolf" title="Wolf">gray wolf</a> (listed as endangered in the Lower 48 states in 1974) and the <a href="/wiki/Mexican_wolf" title="Mexican wolf">Mexican wolf</a> (listed as endangered in 1976), when each type was reintroduced into core areas of its former native range in the 1990s. Because wolves are so wide-ranging and can be expected to occasionally prey upon livestock that ranchers legally graze on federal (even wilderness) lands, announcements of intents to restore these predators to particular federal lands in the Rocky Mountain states generated conflicting views at the outset. Ever after, state authority to manage roaming wolves (and authorize takings and hunts) has been controversial, as well.<a href="#cite_note-jones-2022-159">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-hcn-mexican-wolf-160">[160]</a> <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">Climate change</a> became an element of extinction risk assessment and thus controversy when the <a href="/wiki/Polar_bear" title="Polar bear">polar bear</a> was listed as "threatened" in 2010.<a href="#cite_note-ESA-2016-4">[4]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dusky_Gopher_Frog-a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Dusky_Gopher_Frog-a.jpg/170px-Dusky_Gopher_Frog-a.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Dusky_Gopher_Frog-a.jpg/255px-Dusky_Gopher_Frog-a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Dusky_Gopher_Frog-a.jpg/340px-Dusky_Gopher_Frog-a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dusky_gopher_frog" class="mw-redirect" title="Dusky gopher frog">Dusky gopher frog</a></figcaption></figure> By 2018, critical habitat designation on private land in <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_gopher_frog" title="Mississippi gopher frog">Mississippi gopher frog</a> (also known as dusky gopher frog) had become so controversial that the U.S. Supreme Court chose to adjudicate a lower court decision. The result effectively removed the habitat designation as overreach, owing to the species having gone missing from Louisiana a half-century earlier.<a href="#cite_note-frog-2018-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-frog-2021-120">[120]</a> In 2022, a 6-inch flowering plant, <a href="/wiki/Eriogonum_tiehmii" title="Eriogonum tiehmii">Tiehm's buckwheat</a>, was listed as endangered and accorded critical habitat protection on 910 acres of federal lands in <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>. The listing was controversial because mining for <a href="/wiki/Lithium" title="Lithium">lithium</a> (crucial for <a href="/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery" title="Lithium-ion battery">solar power battery storage</a>) was already underway in the area.<a href="#cite_note-buckwheat-2022-161">[161]</a> Following the required environmental review and agency consultation, the federal government issued a permit in October 2024 that authorized the lithium mining project to move forward.<a href="#cite_note-AP-buckwheat-59">[59]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_wolverine_(14794534724).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/A_wolverine_%2814794534724%29.jpg/220px-A_wolverine_%2814794534724%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/A_wolverine_%2814794534724%29.jpg/330px-A_wolverine_%2814794534724%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/A_wolverine_%2814794534724%29.jpg/440px-A_wolverine_%2814794534724%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3968" data-file-height="2934" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wolverine" title="Wolverine">Wolverine</a></figcaption></figure> In 2023, the largest and fiercest member of the <a href="/wiki/Mustelidae" title="Mustelidae">weasel family</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wolverine" title="Wolverine">wolverine</a>, was listed as threatened for habitat outside of Alaska. The listing was controversial because <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> was invoked as a primary cause of the "rising temperatures and declining snowpack" making successful snow cave denning difficult for the remaining populations in the <a href="/wiki/Cascade_Range" title="Cascade Range">Cascade Range</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a>.<a href="#cite_note-wolverine-2023-162">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-mapes-2023-157">[157]</a><a href="#cite_note-wolverine-vox-163">[163]</a> In 2024, climate change was again stated as cause for a listing. The Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan was listed as threatened because: "The Service has determined that the loss and degradation of its habitat resulting from climate change will endanger the bird in the foreseeable future."<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> Lagopus leucurus saxatilis<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> is one of five subspecies of <a href="/wiki/White-tailed_ptarmigan" title="White-tailed ptarmigan">White-tailed ptarmigan</a> that depend on arctic or alpine tundra habitats. Listing was initially petitioned in 2010 by the <a href="/wiki/Center_for_Biological_Diversity" title="Center for Biological Diversity">Center for Biological Diversity</a>.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Section-by-Section_Summaries_of_the_1973_Act">Section-by-Section Summaries of the 1973 Act</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Section-by-Section Summaries of the 1973 Act">edit</a>]</div> As amended, the Act entails 18 sections.<a href="#cite_note-FWS-18-sections-25">[25]</a> The substantive policy sections are summarized below. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Section_4:_Listing_and_Recovery">Section 4: Listing and Recovery</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Section 4: Listing and Recovery">edit</a>]</div> Section 4 of the ESA sets forth the process by which species are designated as endangered or threatened. Species with these designations receive protections under federal law.<a href="#cite_note-section-4-39">[39]</a> Section 4 also requires critical habitat designation and recovery plans for those species. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Petition_and_listing">Petition and listing</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Petition and listing">edit</a>]</div> To be considered for listing, the species must meet one of five criteria (section 4(a)(1)): 1. There is the present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of its <a href="/wiki/Habitat" title="Habitat">habitat</a> or range. 2. An over use for commercial, recreational, scientific, or educational purposes. 3. The species is declining due to disease or <a href="/wiki/Predation" title="Predation">predation</a>. 4. There is an inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms. 5. There are other natural or manmade factors affecting its continued existence. Potential candidate species are then prioritized, with "emergency listing" given the highest priority. Species that face a "significant risk to their well being" are in this category.<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> A species can be listed in two ways. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> (FWS) or NOAA Fisheries (also called the <a href="/wiki/National_Marine_Fisheries_Service" title="National Marine Fisheries Service">National Marine Fisheries Service</a>) can directly list a species through its candidate assessment program, or an individual or organizational petition may request that the FWS or NMFS list a species. A "species" under the act can be a true <a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">taxonomic</a> <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Subspecies" title="Subspecies">subspecies</a>, or in the case of vertebrates, a "<a href="/wiki/Distinct_population_segment" title="Distinct population segment">distinct population segment</a>." The procedures are the same for both types except with the person/organization petition, there is a 90-day screening period. During the listing process, economic factors cannot be considered, but must be " based solely on the best scientific and commercial data available."<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a> The 1982 amendment to the ESA added the word "solely" to prevent any consideration other than the biological status of the species. Congress rejected President <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Executive_order_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Executive order (United States)">Executive Order</a> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/12291" class="extiw" title="s:12291">12291</a> which required economic analysis of all government agency actions. The House committee's statement was "that economic considerations have no relevance to determinations regarding the status of species."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society200140-169">[169]</a> The very opposite result happened with the 1978 amendment where Congress added the words "...taking into consideration the economic impact..." in the provision on <a href="/wiki/Critical_habitat" title="Critical habitat">critical habitat</a> designation.<a href="#cite_note-ref-110">[110]</a> The 1978 amendment linked the listing procedure with critical habitat designation and economic considerations, which almost completely halted new listings, with almost 2,000 species being withdrawn from consideration.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society200123-170">[170]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Listing_process">Listing process</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Listing process">edit</a>]</div> After receiving a petition to list a species, the two federal agencies take the following steps, or rulemaking procedures, with each step being published in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Register" title="Federal Register">Federal Register</a>, the US government's official journal of proposed or adopted rules and regulations: 1. If a petition presents information that the species may be imperiled, a screening period of 90 days begins (interested persons and/or organization petitions only). If the petition does not present substantial information to support listing, it is denied. 2. If the information is substantial, a status review is started, which is a comprehensive assessment of a species' biological status and threats, with a result of: "warranted", "not warranted," or "warranted but precluded." <ul><li>A finding of not warranted, the listing process ends.</li> <li>Warranted finding means the agencies publish a 12-month finding (a proposed rule) within one year of the date of the petition, proposing to list the species as threatened or endangered. Comments are solicited from the public, and one or more public hearings may be held. Three expert opinions from appropriate and independent specialists may be included, but this is voluntary.</li> <li>A "warranted but precluded" finding is automatically recycled back through the 12-month process indefinitely until a result of either "not warranted" or "warranted" is determined. The agencies monitor the status of any "warranted but precluded" species.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a></li></ul> Essentially the "warranted but precluded" finding is a deferral added by the 1982 amendment to the ESA. It means other, higher-priority actions will take precedence.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGobleScottDavis200658-172">[172]</a> For example, an emergency listing of a rare plant growing in a wetland that is scheduled to be filled in for housing construction would be a "higher-priority". 3. Within another year, a final determination (a final rule) must be made on whether to list the species. The final rule time limit may be extended for 6 months and listings may be grouped together according to similar geography, threats, habitat or taxonomy. The annual rate of listing (i.e., classifying species as "threatened" or "endangered") increased steadily from the <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Ford</a> administration (47 listings, 15 per year) through <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Carter</a> (126 listings, 32 per year), <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a> (255 listings, 32 per year), <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> (231 listings, 58 per year), and <a href="/wiki/William_Clinton" class="mw-redirect" title="William Clinton">Clinton</a> (521 listings, 65 per year) before decline to its lowest rate under <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> (60 listings, 8 per year as of 5/24/08).<a href="#cite_note-GreenwaldSuckling2006-173">[173]</a> The rate of listing is strongly correlated with citizen involvement and mandatory timelines: as agency discretion decreases and citizen involvement increases (i.e. filing of petitions and lawsuits) the rate of listing increases.<a href="#cite_note-GreenwaldSuckling2006-173">[173]</a> Citizen involvement has been shown to identify species not moving through the process efficiently,<a href="#cite_note-Puckett_etal2016-97">[97]</a> and identify more imperiled species.<a href="#cite_note-BrosiBiber2012-174">[174]</a> The longer species are listed, the more likely they are to be classified as recovering by the FWS.<a href="#cite_note-TaylorSuckling2005-115">[115]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Public_notice,_comments_and_judicial_review">Public notice, comments and judicial review</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Public notice, comments and judicial review">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Public_notice" title="Public notice">Public notice</a> is given through legal notices in newspapers, and communicated to state and county agencies within the species' area. Foreign nations may also receive notice of a listing. A <a href="/wiki/Hearing_(law)" title="Hearing (law)">public hearing</a> is mandatory if any person has requested one within 45 days of the published notice.<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> "The purpose of the notice and comment requirement is to provide for meaningful public participation in the rulemaking process." summarized the Ninth Circuit court in the case of Idaho Farm Bureau Federation v. Babbitt.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society200150-176">[176]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Listing_status">Listing status</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Listing status">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Status_ESA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Status_ESA.svg/220px-Status_ESA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Status_ESA.svg/330px-Status_ESA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Status_ESA.svg/440px-Status_ESA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="64" /></a><figcaption>U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA)</figcaption></figure> Listing status and its abbreviations used in <a href="/wiki/Federal_Register" title="Federal Register">Federal Register</a> and by federal agencies like the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</a>:<a href="#cite_note-ESA-177">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-FWScodes-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-eCFR-179">[179]</a> <ul><li>E = endangered (Sec.3.6, Sec.4.a <a href="#cite_note-ESA-177">[177]</a>) – any species which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range other than a species of the Class Insecta determined by the Secretary to constitute a pest.</li> <li>T = threatened (Sec.3.20, Sec.4.a <a href="#cite_note-ESA-177">[177]</a>) – any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range</li></ul> <dl><dd>Other categories:</dd></dl> <ul><li>C = candidate (Sec.4.b.3 <a href="#cite_note-ESA-177">[177]</a>) – a species under consideration for official listing</li> <li>E(S/A), T(S/A) = endangered or threatened due to similarity of appearance (Sec.4.e <a href="#cite_note-ESA-177">[177]</a>) – a species not endangered or threatened, but so closely resembles in appearance a species which has been listed as endangered or threatened, that enforcement personnel would have substantial difficulty in attempting to differentiate between the listed and unlisted species.</li> <li>XE, XN = experimental essential or non-essential population (Sec.10.j <a href="#cite_note-ESA-177">[177]</a>) – any population (including eggs, propagules, or individuals) of an endangered species or a threatened species released outside the current range under authorization of the Secretary. Experimental, nonessential populations of endangered species are treated as threatened species on public land, for consultation purposes, and as species proposed for listing on private land.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Recovery_plan">Recovery plan</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Recovery plan">edit</a>]</div> Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are required to create an <a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Recovery_Plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Endangered Species Recovery Plan">Endangered Species Recovery Plan</a> outlining the goals, tasks required, likely costs, and estimated timeline to recover endangered species (i.e., increase their numbers and improve their management to the point where they can be removed from the endangered list).<a href="#cite_note-180">[a]</a> The ESA does not specify when a recovery plan must be completed. The FWS has a policy specifying completion within three years of the species being listed, but the average time to completion is approximately six years.<a href="#cite_note-GreenwaldSuckling2006-173">[173]</a> The annual rate of recovery plan completion increased steadily from the Ford administration (4) through Carter (9), Reagan (30), Bush I (44), and Clinton (72), but declined under Bush II (16 per year as of 9/1/06).<a href="#cite_note-GreenwaldSuckling2006-173">[173]</a> The goal of the law is to make itself unnecessary, and recovery plans are a means toward that goal.<a href="#cite_note-ref_a-181">[180]</a> Recovery plans became more specific after 1988 when Congress added provisions to Section 4(f) of the law that spelled out the minimum contents of a recovery plan. Three types of information must be included: <ul><li>A description of "site-specific" management actions to make the plan as explicit as possible.</li> <li>The "objective, measurable criteria" to serve as a baseline for judging when and how well a species is recovering.</li> <li>An estimate of money and resources needed to achieve the goal of recovery and delisting.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society200172–73-182">[181]</a></li></ul> The amendment also added <a href="/wiki/General_public" class="mw-redirect" title="General public">public</a> participation to the process. There is a ranking order, similar to the listing procedures, for recovery plans, with the highest priority being for species most likely to benefit from recovery plans, especially when the threat is from construction, or other developmental or economic activity.<a href="#cite_note-ref_a-181">[180]</a> Recovery plans cover domestic and migratory species.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society2001198-183">[182]</a> Beginning in 2016, the FWS augmented standard recovery planning by shifting to a three-part framework. Statutory and regulatory requirements for producing an initial "recovery plan" will still be fulfilled, including opportunities for public comments. The plan is to be written and published in the customary way, and it continues to be subject to the "five year review" process. However, two new kinds of working documents are now developed, posted, and updated as needed for each listed species.<a href="#cite_note-recovery-planning-78">[78]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Usfs-2016-ssa-full_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Usfs-2016-ssa-full_01.jpg/440px-Usfs-2016-ssa-full_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="440" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Usfs-2016-ssa-full_01.jpg/660px-Usfs-2016-ssa-full_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Usfs-2016-ssa-full_01.jpg/880px-Usfs-2016-ssa-full_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1652" data-file-height="1060" /></a><figcaption>"Species Status Assessment Framework" U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service<a href="#cite_note-SSA-80">[80]</a></figcaption></figure> The first updatable document is a "Species Status Assessment" (SSA). It is "a biological risk assessment to aid decision makers who must use the best available scientific information to make policy decisions under the ESA." As new papers are published and rigorous data collected, the SSA can be updated and reposted as warranted.<a href="#cite_note-SSA-80">[80]</a> This, in turn, may stimulate changes in the third part of the new framework: the "Recovery Implementation Strategy" (RIS). While recovery actions are policy level decisions that will continue to be delineated in the official recovery plan, the RIS serves as "a short-term, more flexible operational document focused on how, when, and with whom the recovery actions will be implemented."<a href="#cite_note-recovery-planning-78">[78]</a> A single species may ultimately have a number of RIS documents posted — each pertaining to a different entity, such as a land trust or botanical garden, that steps forward (with or without federal funding) to voluntarily engage in one or more specific recovery actions:<blockquote> The RIS will be developed with our conservation partners, and focus on the period of time and scope of activities that work best for our partners to achieve recovery goals. Many RISs can be developed, specific to partners and/or activities, and can cover varying timeframes, as needed. If multiple RISs are developed, an 'umbrella framework' or overarching RIS, outlining the relationships and priorities among the individual RISs, is developed to ensure strategic implementation of the overall recovery program for the species.<a href="#cite_note-recovery-planning-78">[78]</a></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Downlisting_and_Delisting">Downlisting and Delisting</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Downlisting and Delisting">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Glaucomys_sabrinus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Glaucomys_sabrinus.jpg/220px-Glaucomys_sabrinus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Glaucomys_sabrinus.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="292" data-file-height="232" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Northern_flying_squirrel" title="Northern flying squirrel">Northern flying squirrel</a></figcaption></figure> "Downlisting" of a species can take place when important threats have been controlled and the population in the wild meets recovery objectives. Downlisting entails reclassification from "endangered" to "threatened."<a href="#cite_note-184">[183]</a> To "delist" a species, several factors are considered: control or elimination of threats, population size and growth in the wild, and the stability of habitat quality and quantity. Species can also be delisted if an error (notably, population size) is found in the data used for listing in the first place. More than a dozen species have been delisted under such circumstances. Two examples of animal species delisted are: the Virginia <a href="/wiki/Northern_flying_squirrel" title="Northern flying squirrel">northern flying squirrel</a> (subspecies) in August 2008, which had been listed since 1985, and the <a href="/wiki/Gray_wolf" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray wolf">gray wolf</a> (Northern Rocky Mountain DPS). On April 15, 2011, President Obama signed the Department of Defense and Full-Year Appropriations Act of 2011.<a href="#cite_note-185">[184]</a> A section of that Appropriations Act directed the Secretary of the Interior to reissue within 60 days of enactment the final rule published on April 2, 2009, that identified the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolf (Canis lupus) as a distinct population segment (DPS) and to revise the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife by removing most of the gray wolves in the DPS. The US Fish and Wildlife Service's delisting report lists four plants that have recovered:<a href="#cite_note-186">[185]</a> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Eggert%27s_Sunflower.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Eggert's sunflower (Helianthus eggertii)"><img alt="Eggert's sunflower (Helianthus eggertii)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Eggert%27s_Sunflower.jpg/105px-Eggert%27s_Sunflower.jpg" decoding="async" width="105" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Eggert%27s_Sunflower.jpg/157px-Eggert%27s_Sunflower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Eggert%27s_Sunflower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="210" data-file-height="280" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Eggert's sunflower (<a href="/wiki/Helianthus_eggertii" title="Helianthus eggertii">Helianthus eggertii</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Potentilla_robbinsiana_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Robbins' cinquefoil (Potentilla robbinsiana), an alpine wildflower found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire"><img alt="Robbins' cinquefoil (Potentilla robbinsiana), an alpine wildflower found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Potentilla_robbinsiana_01.jpg/140px-Potentilla_robbinsiana_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Potentilla_robbinsiana_01.jpg/210px-Potentilla_robbinsiana_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Potentilla_robbinsiana_01.jpg/280px-Potentilla_robbinsiana_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Robbins' cinquefoil (<a href="/wiki/Potentilla_robbinsiana" title="Potentilla robbinsiana">Potentilla robbinsiana</a>), an <a href="/wiki/Alpine_plant" title="Alpine plant">alpine</a> wildflower found in the <a href="/wiki/White_Mountains_(New_Hampshire)" class="mw-redirect" title="White Mountains (New Hampshire)">White Mountains</a> of New Hampshire</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Erigeron_maguirei.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Maguire daisy (Erigeron maguirei)"><img alt="Maguire daisy (Erigeron maguirei)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Erigeron_maguirei.jpg/140px-Erigeron_maguirei.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Erigeron_maguirei.jpg/210px-Erigeron_maguirei.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Erigeron_maguirei.jpg/280px-Erigeron_maguirei.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Maguire daisy (<a href="/wiki/Erigeron_maguirei" title="Erigeron maguirei">Erigeron maguirei</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Echinacea_tennesseensis_Couchville.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tennessee purple coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis)"><img alt="Tennessee purple coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Echinacea_tennesseensis_Couchville.jpg/140px-Echinacea_tennesseensis_Couchville.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Echinacea_tennesseensis_Couchville.jpg/210px-Echinacea_tennesseensis_Couchville.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Echinacea_tennesseensis_Couchville.jpg/280px-Echinacea_tennesseensis_Couchville.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2412" data-file-height="2012" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Tennessee purple coneflower (<a href="/wiki/Echinacea_tennesseensis" title="Echinacea tennesseensis">Echinacea tennesseensis</a>)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Section_6:_State_endangered_species_lists">Section 6: State endangered species lists</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Section 6: State endangered species lists">edit</a>]</div> Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act<a href="#cite_note-187">[186]</a> provided funding for development of programs for management of threatened and endangered species by state wildlife agencies.<a href="#cite_note-188">[187]</a><a href="#cite_note-section-6-189">[188]</a> Subsequently, lists of endangered and threatened species within their boundaries have been prepared by each state. These state lists often include species which are considered endangered or threatened within a specific state but not within all states, and which therefore are not included on the national list of endangered and threatened species. Examples include Florida,<a href="#cite_note-190">[189]</a> Minnesota,<a href="#cite_note-191">[190]</a> and Maine.<a href="#cite_note-192">[191]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Section_7:_Cooperation_and_Consultation">Section 7: Cooperation and Consultation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Section 7: Cooperation and Consultation">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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This directive is often referred to as an 'affirmative requirement.' Section 7(a)(2) of the Act requires federal agencies to ensure their actions do not jeopardize listed species or adversely modify critical habitat. Federal agencies (referred to as "action agencies") must consult with the Secretary of the Interior before taking any action which may affect listed species. Section 7(a)(2) is often referred to as the consultation process. The two agencies that administer the Act are the <a href="/wiki/National_Marine_Fisheries_Service" title="National Marine Fisheries Service">National Marine Fisheries Service</a> (NMFS) and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</a> (FWS). These two agencies are often collectively referred to as "the Services" and lead the consultation process. FWS is responsible for the recovery of terrestrial, freshwater, and catadromous species. NMFS is responsible for marine species and anadromous fish. NMFS manages recovery for 165 endangered and threatened marine species including 66 foreign species. As of January 2020, the Services have listed 2,273 species worldwide as endangered or threatened. 1,662 of these species occur in the United States. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Section_7(a)(1)">Section 7(a)(1)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Section 7(a)(1)">edit</a>]</div> Section 7(a)(1) requires federal agencies to work with FWS and NMFS to coordinate endangered and threatened species conservation. Federal agencies should also account for any effects on endangered or threatened species in planning their activities. An example of the 7(a)(1) process is the Army Corps of Engineers' management of the Lower Mississippi River. Since the early 2000s, a division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has worked with FWS and the states to resolve endangered species and ecosystem management issues. ESA-listed species in the area include the <a href="/wiki/Least_tern" title="Least tern">least tern</a> (Sterna antillarum), <a href="/wiki/Pallid_sturgeon" title="Pallid sturgeon">pallid sturgeon</a> (Scaphirhynchus albus), and the <a href="/wiki/Fat_pocketbook" class="mw-redirect" title="Fat pocketbook">fat pocketbook</a> (potamilus capax).<a href="#cite_note-194">[193]</a> The goal of this 7(a)(1) conservation plan is to protect listed species while allowing the Corps to carry out its civil works responsibilities. As part of the plan, the Corps undertakes projects that will benefit those species. It also considers species ecology as a part of project design. All three listed species in the Lower Mississippi River have increased in numbers since the plan was established. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Section_7(a)(2)">Section 7(a)(2)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Section 7(a)(2)">edit</a>]</div> An action agency is required to consult with the Services if it has reason to believe that a species listed under the ESA may be present in the proposed project area. It also must consult if the agency believes the action will likely affect the species. This requirement, established by section 7(a)(2), is commonly referred to as the consultation process. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Informal_consultation_phase">Informal consultation phase</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Informal consultation phase">edit</a>]</div> Consultation typically begins informally at the request of an action agency in the early stages of project planning.<a href="#cite_note-195">[194]</a> Discussion topics include listed species in the proposed action area and any effect(s) the action may have on those species. If both agencies agree that the proposed action is not likely to affect the species, the project moves forward. However, if the agency's action may affect a listed species, the agency is required to prepare a biological assessment. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Biological_assessments">Biological assessments</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Biological assessments">edit</a>]</div> A biological assessment is a document prepared by the action agency. It lays out the project's potential effects, particularly on listed species. The action agency must complete a biological assessment if listed species or critical habitat may be present. The assessment is optional if only proposed species or critical habitat are present. As a part of the assessment, the action agency conducts on-site inspections to see whether protected species are present. The assessment will also include the likely effects of the action on such species. The assessment should address all listed and proposed species in the action area, not only those likely to be affected. The biological assessment may also include conservation measures. Conservation measures are actions the agency intends to take to promote the recovery of listed species. These actions may also serve to minimize the projects' effects on species in the project area. There are three possible conclusions to a biological assessment: "no effect", "not likely to adversely affect", or "likely to adversely affect" listed or proposed species. The action agency may reach a "no effect" conclusion if it determines the proposed action will not affect listed species or designated critical habitat. The action agency may reach a "not likely to adversely affect" decision if the proposed action is insignificant or beneficial. The Services will then review the biological assessment and either agree or disagree with the agency's findings. If the Services agree the project's potential impacts have been eliminated, they will concur in writing. The concurrence letter must outline any modifications agreed to during informal consultation. If an agreement cannot be reached, the Services advise the action agency to initiate formal consultation. If the Services or the action agency finds the action "likely to adversely affect" protected species, this triggers formal consultation. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Formal_consultation">Formal consultation</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Formal consultation">edit</a>]</div> During formal consultation, the Services establish the project's effects on listed species. Specifically, they address whether the project will jeopardize the continued existence of any listed species or destroy/adversely modify species' designated critical habitat. "Jeopardy" is not defined in the ESA, but the Services have defined it in regulation to mean "when an action is likely to appreciably reduce a species' likelihood of survival and recovery in the wild." In other words, if an action merely reduces the likelihood of recovery but not survival then the standard of jeopardy is not met. To assess the likelihood of jeopardy, the Services will review the species' biological and ecological traits. These could include the species' population dynamics (population size, variability and stability), <a href="/wiki/Life_history_theory" title="Life history theory">life-history</a> traits, critical habitat, and how any proposed action might alter its critical habitat. They also consider how limited the species' range is and whether the threats that led to species listing have improved or worsened since listing. The Services have defined adverse modification as "a diminishment of critical habitat that leads to a lower likelihood of survival and recovery for a listed species." The diminishment may be direct or indirect. To assess the likelihood of adverse modification, biologists will first verify the scope of the proposed action. This includes identifying the area likely to be affected and considering the proximity of the action to species or designated critical habitat. The duration and frequency of any disturbance to the species or its habitat is also assessed. A formal consultation may last up to 90 days. After this time the Services will issue a biological opinion. The biological opinion contains findings related to the project's effects on listed and proposed species. The Services must complete the biological opinion within 45 days of the conclusion of formal consultation. However, the Services may extend this timeline if they require more information to make a determination. The action agency must agree to the extension. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Finding_of_no_jeopardy_or_adverse_modification">Finding of no jeopardy or adverse modification</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Finding of no jeopardy or adverse modification">edit</a>]</div> The Services may issue a finding of "no jeopardy or adverse modification" if the proposed action does not pose any harm to listed or proposed species or their designated critical habitat. Alternatively, the Service could find that proposed action is likely to harm listed or proposed species or their critical habitat but does not reach the level of jeopardy or adverse modification. In this case, the Services will prepare an incidental take statement. Under most circumstances, the ESA prohibits "take" of listed species. Take includes harming, killing or harassing a listed species. However, the ESA allows for "incidental" take that results from an otherwise lawful activity that is not the direct purpose of the action. An incidental take statement will be agreed to between the Services and the action agency. The statement should describe the amount of anticipated take due to the proposed action. It will also include "reasonable and prudent measures" to minimize the take. Incidental take cannot pose jeopardy or potential extinction to species. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Finding_of_jeopardy_or_adverse_modification">Finding of jeopardy or adverse modification</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Finding of jeopardy or adverse modification">edit</a>]</div> Following formal consultation, the Services may determine that the action will result in jeopardy or adverse modification to critical habitat. If this is the case, this finding will be included in the biological opinion. However, during consultation, the Services may find there are actions that the agency may take to avoid this. These actions are known as reasonable and prudent alternative actions. In the event of a jeopardy or adverse modification finding, the agency must adopt reasonable and prudent alternative actions. However, the Services retain final say on which are included in the biological opinion. According to regulation, reasonable and prudent alternative actions must: <ul><li>Be consistent with the purpose of the proposed project</li> <li>Be consistent with the action agency's legal authority and jurisdiction</li> <li>Be economically and technically feasible</li> <li>In the opinion of the Services, avoid jeopardy</li></ul> Given a finding of jeopardy or adverse modification, the action agency has several options: <ul><li>Adopt one or more of the reasonable and prudent alternative actions and move forward with the modified project</li> <li>Elect not to grant the permit, fund the project, or undertake the action</li> <li>Request an exemption from the Endangered Species Committee. Another possibility is to re-initiate consultation. The action agency would do this by first proposing to modify the action</li> <li>Propose reasonable and prudent alternatives not yet considered</li></ul> The action agency must notify the Services of its course of action on any project that receives a jeopardy or adverse modification opinion. In the past ten years, FWS has made jeopardy determinations in three cases (delta smelt, aquatic species in Idaho, and South Florida water management), each of which has included reasonable and prudent alternatives. No project has been stopped as a result of FWS finding a project had no available path forward. In rare cases, no alternatives to avoid jeopardy or adverse modification will be available. An analysis of FWS consultations from 1987 to 1991 found only 0.02% were blocked or canceled because of a jeopardy or adverse modification opinion with no reasonable and prudent alternatives.<a href="#cite_note-Island_Press-196">[195]</a> In this scenario, the only option that the action agency and applicant are left with is to apply for an exemption. Exemptions are decided upon by the Endangered Species Committee. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Exemptions">Exemptions</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Exemptions">edit</a>]</div> An action agency may apply for an exemption if: (1) it believes it cannot comply with the requirements of the biological opinion; or (2) formal consultation yields no reasonable and prudent alternative actions. The exemption application must be submitted to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">Secretary of the Interior</a> within 90 days of the conclusion of formal consultation. The Secretary can then recommend the application to the Endangered Species Committee (informally known as "The God Squad"). This committee is composed of several Cabinet-level members: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_Agriculture" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of Agriculture">Secretary of Agriculture</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of the Army">Secretary of the Army</a></li> <li>The Secretary of the Interior</li> <li>The Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers" title="Council of Economic Advisers">Council of Economic Advisers</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency">Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Administrator_of_the_National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a></li> <li>One representative from each affected State (appointed by the President of the United States)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Endangered_Species_Committee_decisions">Endangered Species Committee decisions</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Endangered Species Committee decisions">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS.jpg/220px-Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="326" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS.jpg/330px-Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS.jpg/440px-Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2262" data-file-height="3352" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl" title="Northern spotted owl">Northern spotted owl</a></figcaption></figure> The governor of each affected state is notified of any exemption applications. The governor will recommend a representative to join the committee for this application decision. Within 140 days of recommending an exemption, the Secretary should submit to the committee a report that gives: <ul><li>The availability of reasonable and prudent alternatives</li> <li>A comparison of the benefits of the proposed action to any alternative courses of action</li> <li>Whether the proposed action is in the public interest or is of national or regional significance</li> <li>Available mitigation measures to limit the effects on listed species</li> <li>Whether the action agency made any irreversible or irretrievable commitment of resources</li></ul> Once this information is received, the committee and the secretary will hold a public hearing. The committee has 30 days from the time of receiving the above report to make a decision. In order for the exemption to be granted, five out of the seven members must vote in favor of the exemption.<a href="#cite_note-197">[196]</a> The findings can be challenged in federal court. In 1992, one such challenge was the case of Portland Audubon Society v. Endangered Species Committee heard in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.<a href="#cite_note-Justia-198">[197]</a> The court found that three members had been in illegal <a href="/wiki/Ex_parte" title="Ex parte">ex parte</a> contact with the then-President George H.W. Bush, a violation of the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative Procedure Act (United States)">Administrative Procedures Act</a>. The committee's exemption was for the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Land_Management" title="Bureau of Land Management">Bureau of Land Management</a>'s timber sale and "incidental takes" of the endangered northern spotted owl in Oregon.<a href="#cite_note-Justia-198">[197]</a> Rarely does the Endangered Species Committee consider projects for exemption. The Endangered Species Committee has only met three times since the inception of the ESA. An exemption was granted on two of these occasions. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Section_10:_Permitting,_Conservation_Agreements,_and_Experimental_Populations">Section 10: Permitting, Conservation Agreements, and Experimental Populations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Section 10: Permitting, Conservation Agreements, and Experimental Populations">edit</a>]</div> Section 10 of the ESA provides a permit system that may allow acts prohibited by Section 9.<a href="#cite_note-section-10-122">[122]</a> This includes scientific and conservation activities.  For example, the government may let someone move a species from one area to another. This would otherwise be a prohibited taking under Section 9. Before the law was amended in 1982, a listed species could be taken only for <a href="/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">scientific</a> or research purposes. The combined result of the amendments to the Endangered Species Act have created a more flexible ESA. More changes were made in the 1990s in an attempt by Secretary of the Interior <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Babbitt" title="Bruce Babbitt">Bruce Babbitt</a> to shield the ESA from a Congress hostile to the law. He instituted incentive-based strategies that would balance the goals of economic development and conservation.<a href="#cite_note-199">[198]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Habitat_conservation_plans">Habitat conservation plans</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Habitat conservation plans">edit</a>]</div> Section 10 may also allow activities that can unintentionally impact protected species.  A common activity might be construction where these species live. More than half of habitat for listed species is on non-federal property.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society2001127-200">[199]</a> Under section 10, impacted parties can apply for an incidental take permit (ITP). An application for an ITP requires a <a href="/wiki/Habitat_Conservation_Plan" title="Habitat Conservation Plan">Habitat Conservation Plan</a> (HCP).<a href="#cite_note-201">[200]</a> HCPs must minimize and mitigate the impacts of the activity. HCPs can be established to provide protections for both listed and non-listed species. Such non-listed species include species that have been proposed for listing. Hundreds of HCPs have been created. However, the effectiveness of the HCP program remains unknown.<a href="#cite_note-202">[201]</a> If activities may unintentionally take a protected species, an incidental take permit can be issued. The applicant submits an application with an habitat conservation plan (HCP). If approved by the agency (FWS or NMFS) they are issued an <a href="/wiki/Incidental_Take_Permit" class="mw-redirect" title="Incidental Take Permit">Incidental Take Permit</a> (ITP). The permit allows a certain number of the species to be "taken." The Services have a "No Surprises" policy for HCPs. Once an ITP is granted, the Services cannot require applicants to spend more money or set aside additional land or pay more.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society2001170–171-203">[202]</a> To receive the benefit of the permit the applicant must comply with all the requirements of the HCP. Because the permit is issued by a federal agency to a private party, it is a federal action. Other federal laws will apply such as the <a href="/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" title="National Environmental Policy Act">National Environmental Policy Act</a> (NEPA) and Administrative Procedure Act (APA). A notice of the permit application action must be published in the Federal Register and a public comment period of 30 to 90 days offered.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society2001147–148-204">[203]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Safe_Harbor_Agreements">Safe Harbor Agreements</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Safe Harbor Agreements">edit</a>]</div> The "Safe Harbor" agreement (SHA) is similar to an HCP. It is voluntary between the private landowner and the Services.<a href="#cite_note-205">[204]</a> The landowner agrees to alter the property to benefit a listed or proposed species. In exchange, the Services will allow some future "takes" through an Enhancement of Survival Permit. A landowner can have either a "Safe Harbor" agreement or an HCP, or both. The policy was developed by the Clinton administration.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanford_Environmental_Law_Society2001168–169-206">[205]</a> Unlike an HCP the activities covered by a SHA are designed to protect species. The policy relies on the "enhancement of survival" provision of Section §1539(a)(1)(A). Safe harbor agreements are subject to public comment rules of the APA. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Candidate_Conservation_Agreements_With_Assurances">Candidate Conservation Agreements With Assurances</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Candidate Conservation Agreements With Assurances">edit</a>]</div> HCPs and SHAs are applied to listed species. If an activity may "take" a proposed or candidate species, parties can enter into Candidate Conservation Agreements With Assurances (CCAA).<a href="#cite_note-207">[206]</a> A party must show the Services they will take conservation measures to prevent listing. If a CCAA is approved and the species is later listed, the party with a CCAA gets an automatic "enhancement of survival" permit under Section §1539(a)(1)(A). CCAAs are subject to the public comment rules of the APA. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Experimental_populations">Experimental populations</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Experimental populations">edit</a>]</div> Experimental populations are listed species that have been intentionally introduced to a new area. They must be separate geographically from other populations of the same species. Experimental populations can be designated "essential" or "non-essential"<a href="#cite_note-208">[207]</a> "Essential" populations are those whose loss would appreciably reduce the survival of the species in the wild. "Non-essential" populations are all others. Nonessential experimental populations of listed species typically receive less protection than populations in the wild.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Penalties">Penalties</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Penalties">edit</a>]</div> There are different degrees of violation with the law. The most punishable offenses are trafficking, and any act of knowingly "taking" (which includes harming, wounding, or killing) an endangered species.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The penalties for these violations can be a maximum fine of up to $50,000 or imprisonment for one year, or both, and <a href="/wiki/Civil_penalties" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil penalties">civil penalties</a> of up to $25,000 per violation may be assessed. Lists of violations and exact fines are available through the <a href="/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a> web-site.<a href="#cite_note-209">[208]</a> One provision of this law is that no penalty may be imposed if, by a <a href="/wiki/Preponderance_of_the_evidence" class="mw-redirect" title="Preponderance of the evidence">preponderance of the evidence</a> that the act was in self-defense. The law also eliminates criminal penalties for accidentally killing listed species during farming and ranching activities.<a href="#cite_note-210">[209]</a> In addition to fines or imprisonment, a license, permit, or other agreement issued by a federal agency that authorized an individual to import or export fish, wildlife, or plants may be revoked, suspended or modified. Any federal hunting or fishing permits that were issued to a person who violates the ESA can be canceled or suspended for up to a year.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Use_of_money_received_through_violations_of_the_ESA">Use of money received through violations of the ESA</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: Use of money received through violations of the ESA">edit</a>]</div> A reward will be paid to any person who furnishes information which leads to an arrest, conviction, or revocation of a license, so long as they are not a local, state, or federal employee in the performance of official duties. The Secretary may also provide reasonable and necessary costs incurred for the care of fish, wildlife, and forest service or plant pending the violation caused by the criminal. If the balance ever exceeds $500,000 the Secretary of the Treasury is required to deposit an amount equal to the excess into the cooperative endangered species conservation fund.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Critical_habitat" title="Critical habitat">Critical habitat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act_Amendments_of_1978" title="Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1978">Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_endangered_species_in_North_America" class="mw-redirect" title="List of endangered species in North America">List of endangered species in North America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lujan_v._Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife">Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marine_Mammal_Protection_Act_of_1972" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972">Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service_list_of_endangered_mammals_and_birds" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered mammals and birds">United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered mammals and birds</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Footnotes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-180"><a href="#cite_ref-180">^</a> The ESA does allow FWS and NMFS to forgo a recovery plan by declaring it will not benefit the species, but this provision has rarely been invoked. It was most famously used to deny a recovery plan to the <a href="/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl" title="Northern spotted owl">northern spotted owl</a> in 1991, but in 2006 the FWS changed course and announced it would complete a plan for the species. </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/US/437/437.US.153.76-1701.html">"Tennessee Valley Authority v. 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Journal of Economic Perspectives 12.3 (1998): 3-20. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.12.3.3">online</a></li> <li>Carroll, Ronald, et al. "Strengthening the use of science in achieving the goals of the Endangered Species Act: an assessment by the Ecological Society of America." Ecological Applications 6.1 (1996): 1–11. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esa.org/pao/policyStatements/Papers/StrentheningUSAGESA.php">online</a></li> <li>Corn, M. Lynne and Alexandra M. Wyatt. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31654.pdf">The Endangered Species Act: A Primer.</a> <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service" title="Congressional Research Service">Congressional Research Service</a> 2016.</li> <li>Czech, Brian, and Paul R. Krausman. The endangered species act: history, conservation biology, and public policy (JHU Press, 2001).</li> <li>Doremus, Holly. "Listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act: why better science isn't always better policy." Washington U Law Quarterly 75 (1997): 1029+ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1579&context=law_lawreview">online</a></li> <li>Doremus, Holly. "Adaptive Management, the Endangered Species Act, and the Institutional Challenges of New Age Environmental Protection." Washburn Law Journal 41 (2001): 50+ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200225160327/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ab35/6dd75442b36d75c4b0e772e41e7b80235b45.pdf">online</a>.</li> <li>Easter-Pilcher, Andrea. "Implementing the endangered species act." Bioscience 46.5 (1996): 355–363. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-pdf/46/5/355/1301415/46-5-355.pdf">online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGobleScottDavis2006" class="citation book cs1">Goble, Dale; Scott, J. Michael; Davis, F. W., eds. (2006). The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Vol. 1: Renewing the Conservation Promise. Washington, DC: Island Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1597260096" title="Special:BookSources/1597260096"><bdi>1597260096</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Endangered+Species+Act+at+Thirty%3A+Vol.+1%3A+Renewing+the+Conservation+Promise&rft.place=Washington%2C+DC&rft.pub=Island+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=1597260096&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEndangered+Species+Act+of+1973" class="Z3988"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Endangered-Species-Act-Thirty-Conservation/dp/1597260096/">excerpt</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreenThe_Center_for_Public_Integrity1999" class="citation book cs1">Green, Alan; The Center for Public Integrity (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FSlIpPz1HIwC&pg=PA113">Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species</a>. Public Affairs. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58648-374-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58648-374-6"><bdi>978-1-58648-374-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Animal+Underworld%3A+Inside+America%27s+Black+Market+for+Rare+and+Exotic+Species&rft.pub=Public+Affairs&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-1-58648-374-6&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft.au=The+Center+for+Public+Integrity&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFSlIpPz1HIwC%26pg%3DPA113&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEndangered+Species+Act+of+1973" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Leshy, John D. "The Babbitt Legacy at the Department of the Interior: A Preliminary View." Environmental Law 31 (2001): 199–227. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1381&context=faculty_scholarship">online</a></li> <li>Noss, Reed F., Michael O'Connell, and Dennis D. Murphy. The science of conservation planning: habitat conservation under the Endangered Species Act (Island Press, 1997).</li> <li>Petersen, Shannon. "Congress and charismatic megafauna: A legislative history of the endangered species act" Environmental Law 29 (1999): 463–491.</li> <li>Schwartz, Mark W. "The performance of the endangered species act." in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 39 (2008) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201027012030/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b404/93031b53c8dd75655bb89737262fc67c3c9e.pdf">online</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStanford_Environmental_Law_Society2001" class="citation book cs1">Stanford Environmental Law Society (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-aJp_ca6-psC">The Endangered Species Act</a> (Illustrated ed.). Stanford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0804738432" title="Special:BookSources/0804738432"><bdi>0804738432</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Endangered+Species+Act&rft.edition=Illustrated&rft.pub=Stanford+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0804738432&rft.au=Stanford+Environmental+Law+Society&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-aJp_ca6-psC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEndangered+Species+Act+of+1973" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Taylor, Martin FJ, Kieran F. Suckling, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski. "The effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act: a quantitative analysis." BioScience 55.4 (2005): 360–367. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-pdf/55/4/360/26896815/55-4-360.pdf">online</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973&action=edit&section=61" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/chapter-35">As codified in 16 U.S.C. chapter 35</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">United States Code</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Legal_Information_Institute" title="Legal Information Institute">LII</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uscode.house.gov/browse/prelim@title16/chapter35&edition=prelim">As codified in 16 U.S.C. chapter 35</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">United States Code</a> from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">US House of Representatives</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-3002/uslm/COMPS-3002.xml">Endangered Species Act of 1973</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-3002/pdf/COMPS-3002.pdf">PDF</a>/<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-3002/">details</a>) as amended in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Government_Publishing_Office" title="United States Government Publishing Office">GPO</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.govinfo.gov/help/comps">Statute Compilations collection</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-859.ZO.html">Cornell University Law School-Babbit v. Sweet Home</a> accessed July 25, 2005, The 1995 decision on whether significant habitat modifications on private property that actually kill species constitute "harm" for purposes of the ESA.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org">Center for Biological Diversity</a> accessed July 25, 2005</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fws.gov/endangered/about/">Endangered Species Program – US Fish & Wildlife Service</a> accessed June 16, 2012</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/esa/">Endangered Species Act – National Marine Fisheries Service – NOAA</a> accessed June 16, 2012</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fws.gov/endangered/about/listing-status-codes.html">Species Status Categories and Codes – US Fish & Wildlife Service</a> accessed June 16, 2012</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fws.gov/endangered/what-we-do/hcp-overview.html">Habitat Conservation Plans – US Fish & Wildlife Service</a> accessed June 16, 2012</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=437&invol=153">The 1978 decision related to the ESA and the snail darter.</a> accessed July, 2005</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041108000216/http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/TESSBoxscore">Summary of Listed Species Listed Populations and Recovery Plans – US Fish & Wildlife Service</a> accessed June 16, 2012</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fws.gov/endangered/species/index.html">Species Search – US Fish & Wildlife Service</a> accessed June 16, 2012</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Laidlaw Environmental Services</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BP_P.L.C._v._Mayor_and_City_Council_of_Baltimore" title="BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore">BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" title="National Environmental Policy Act">NEPA</a> cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Students_Challenging_Regulatory_Agency_Procedures" title="United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures">United States v. SCRAP</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Edison_Co._v._People_Against_Nuclear_Energy" title="Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy">Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Gas_%26_Electric_Co._v._Natural_Resources_Defense_Council,_Inc." title="Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.">Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Transportation_v._Public_Citizen" title="Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen">Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norton_v._Southern_Utah_Wilderness_Alliance" title="Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance">Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winter_v._Natural_Resources_Defense_Council" title="Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council">Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monsanto_Co._v._Geertson_Seed_Farms" title="Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms">Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms</a> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)" title="Clean Air Act (United States)">CAA</a> cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Train_v._Natural_Resources_Defense_Council,_Inc." title="Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.">Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natural_Resources_Defense_Council,_Inc." title="Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.">Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitman_v._American_Trucking_Ass%27ns,_Inc." title="Whitman v. American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc.">Whitman v. American Trucking Associations</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alaska_Department_of_Environmental_Conservation_v._EPA" title="Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA">Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Transportation_v._Public_Citizen" title="Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen">Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_v._EPA" title="Massachusetts v. EPA">Massachusetts v. EPA</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_Defense_v._Duke_Energy_Corp." title="Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp.">Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp.</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Electric_Power_Co._v._Connecticut" title="American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut">American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utility_Air_Regulatory_Group_v._EPA" title="Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA">Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_v._EPA" title="Michigan v. EPA">Michigan v. EPA</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/HollyFrontier_Cheyenne_Refining,_LLC_v._Renewable_Fuels_Assn." title="HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Assn.">HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining v. Renewable Fuels Association</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_v._EPA" title="West Virginia v. EPA">West Virginia v. EPA</a> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Resource_Conservation_and_Recovery_Act" title="Resource Conservation and Recovery Act">RCRA</a> cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Philadelphia_v._New_Jersey" title="City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey">City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Union_Co._v._United_States" title="Southern Union Co. v. United States">Southern Union Co. v. United States</a> (2012)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">ESA</a> cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lujan_v._Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife">Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babbitt_v._Sweet_Home_Chapter_of_Communities_for_a_Great_Oregon" title="Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon">Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ass%27n_of_Home_Builders_v._Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife">National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weyerhaeuser_Company_v._United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service">Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service_v._Sierra_Club" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club">United States Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">CWA</a> cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Riverside_Bayview" title="United States v. Riverside Bayview">United States v. Riverside Bayview</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solid_Waste_Agency_of_Northern_Cook_County_v._Army_Corps_of_Engineers" title="Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. Army Corps of Engineers">SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Florida_Water_Management_District_v._Miccosukee_Tribe" title="South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe">South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._D._Warren_Co._v._Maine_Board_of_Environmental_Protection" title="S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection">S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapanos_v._United_States" title="Rapanos v. United States">Rapanos v. United States</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ass%27n_of_Home_Builders_v._Defenders_of_Wildlife" title="National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife">National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Entergy_Corp._v._Riverkeeper_Inc." title="Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper Inc.">Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper Inc.</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coeur_Alaska,_Inc._v._Southeast_Alaska_Conservation_Council" title="Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council">Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sackett_v._Environmental_Protection_Agency_(2012)" title="Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (2012)">Sackett v. EPA I</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Flood_Control_District_v._Natural_Resources_Defense_Council,_Inc." title="Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.">Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Corps_of_Engineers_v._Hawkes_Co." title="Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co.">Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co.</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Manufacturers_v._Department_of_Defense" title="National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense">National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_of_Maui_v._Hawaii_Wildlife_Fund" title="County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund">County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sackett_v._Environmental_Protection_Agency_(2023)" title="Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (2023)">Sackett v. EPA II</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Superfund" title="Superfund">CERCLA</a> cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Bestfoods" title="United States v. Bestfoods">United States v. Bestfoods</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guam_v._United_States" title="Guam v. United States">Guam v. United States</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%">Major <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Congress" title="Act of Congress">federal legislation</a>, treaties, and lower court decisions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park_Protection_Act" title="Yellowstone National Park Protection Act">Yellowstone National Park Protection Act</a> (1872)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organic_Act_of_1897" title="Organic Act of 1897">Forest Service Organic Administration Act</a> (1897)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivers_and_Harbors_Act_of_1899" title="Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899">Rivers and Harbors Act</a> (1899) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Refuse_Act" title="Refuse Act">Refuse Act</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lacey_Act_of_1900" title="Lacey Act of 1900">Lacey Act</a> (1900)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weeks_Act" title="Weeks Act">Weeks Act</a> (1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911" title="North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911">North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911</a> (1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weeks%E2%80%93McLean_Act" title="Weeks–McLean Act">Weeks–McLean Act</a> (1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act_of_1918" title="Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918">Migratory Bird Treaty Act</a> (1918)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarke%E2%80%93McNary_Act" title="Clarke–McNary Act">Clarke–McNary Act</a> (1924)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oil_Pollution_Act_of_1924" title="Oil Pollution Act of 1924">Oil Pollution Act</a> (1924)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/McSweeney-McNary_Act_of_1928" title="McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928">McSweeney-McNary Act</a> (1928)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_and_Wildlife_Coordination_Act" title="Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act">Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act</a> (1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watershed_Protection_and_Flood_Prevention_Act_of_1954" title="Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954">Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Pollution_Control_Act_of_1955" title="Air Pollution Control Act of 1955">Air Pollution Control Act</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_and_Wildlife_Act" title="Fish and Wildlife Act">Fish and Wildlife Act</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oil_Pollution_Act_of_1961" title="Oil Pollution Act of 1961">Oil Pollution Act</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)" title="Clean Air Act (United States)">Clean Air Act</a> (1963, 1970, 1977, 1990) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program" title="Acid Rain Program">Acid Rain Program</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scenic_Hudson_Preservation_Conference_v._Federal_Power_Commission" title="Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission">Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission</a> (2nd Cir. Court of Appeals, 1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solid_Waste_Disposal_Act_of_1965" title="Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965">Solid Waste Disposal Act</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act_of_1969" title="Endangered Species Act of 1969">Endangered Species Act</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_Quality_Improvement_Act" title="Environmental Quality Improvement Act">Environmental Quality Improvement Act</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" title="National Environmental Policy Act">National Environmental Policy Act</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water Act</a> (1972, 1977, 1987, 2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Zone_Management_Act" title="Coastal Zone Management Act">Coastal Zone Management Act</a> (1972) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Zone_Management_Program" title="Coastal Zone Management Program">Coastal Zone Management Program</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Insecticide,_Fungicide,_and_Rodenticide_Act" title="Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act">Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marine_Protection,_Research,_and_Sanctuaries_Act_of_1972" title="Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972">Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noise_Control_Act" title="Noise Control Act">Noise Control Act</a> (1972)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Endangered Species Act</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oil_Pollution_Act_of_1973" title="Oil Pollution Act of 1973">Oil Pollution Act</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safe_Drinking_Water_Act" title="Safe Drinking Water Act">Safe Drinking Water Act</a> (1974, 1986, 1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act" title="Water Resources Development Act">Water Resources Development Act</a> (<a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1974" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1974">1974</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1976" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1976">1976</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1986" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1986">1986</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1988" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1988">1988</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1990" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1990">1990</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1992" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1992">1992</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1996" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1996">1996</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_1999" title="Water Resources Development Act of 1999">1999</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_2000" title="Water Resources Development Act of 2000">2000</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act_of_2007" title="Water Resources Development Act of 2007">2007</a>, 2014, 2016, 2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Noxious_Weed_Act_of_1974" title="Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974">Federal Noxious Weed Act</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazardous_Materials_Transportation_Act" title="Hazardous Materials Transportation Act">Hazardous Materials Transportation Act</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Stevens_Fishery_Conservation_and_Management_Act" title="Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act">Magnuson–Stevens Act</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resource_Conservation_and_Recovery_Act" title="Resource Conservation and Recovery Act">Resource Conservation and Recovery Act</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toxic_Substances_Control_Act_of_1976" title="Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976">Toxic Substances Control Act</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surface_Mining_Control_and_Reclamation_Act_of_1977" title="Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977">Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranium_Mill_Tailings_Radiation_Control_Act" title="Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act">Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superfund" title="Superfund">CERCLA (Superfund)</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emergency_Planning_and_Community_Right-to-Know_Act" title="Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act">Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emergency_Wetlands_Resources_Act" title="Emergency Wetlands Resources Act">Emergency Wetlands Resources Act</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_Change_Research_Act_of_1990" title="Global Change Research Act of 1990">Global Change Research Act</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Environmental_Education_Act" title="National Environmental Education Act">National Environmental Education Act</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oil_Pollution_Act_of_1990" title="Oil Pollution Act of 1990">Oil Pollution Act</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alien_Species_Prevention_and_Enforcement_Act_of_1992" title="Alien Species Prevention and Enforcement Act of 1992">Alien Species Prevention and Enforcement Act of 1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_Quality_Protection_Act" title="Food Quality Protection Act">Food Quality Protection Act</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005" title="Energy Policy Act of 2005">Energy Policy Act</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_Independence_and_Security_Act_of_2007" title="Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007">Energy Independence and Security Act</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulation_of_greenhouse_gases_under_the_Clean_Air_Act" title="Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act">Coalition for Responsible Regulation, Inc. v. EPA</a> (D.C. Cir. Court of Appeals, 2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_R._Lautenberg_Chemical_Safety_for_the_21st_Century_Act" title="Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act">Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/America%27s_Water_Infrastructure_Act_of_2018" title="America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018">America's Water Infrastructure Act</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_Jobs_Act" title="Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act">Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13990" title="Executive Order 13990">Louisiana v. Biden</a> (5th Cir. Court of Appeals, 2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act" title="CHIPS and Science Act">CHIPS and Science Act</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act" title="Inflation Reduction Act">Inflation Reduction Act</a> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_States" title="List of federal agencies in the United States">Federal agencies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agency_for_Toxic_Substances_and_Disease_Registry" title="Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry">Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality" title="Council on Environmental Quality">Council on Environmental Quality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Highway_Traffic_Safety_Administration" title="National Highway Traffic Safety Administration">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Surface_Mining_Reclamation_and_Enforcement" title="Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement">Office of Surface Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency">United States Environmental Protection Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Global_Change_Research_Program" title="U.S. Global Change Research Program">U.S. Global Change Research Program</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#BBDDCC;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Regulations</a> and concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Best_available_technology" title="Best available technology">Best available technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citizen_suit" title="Citizen suit">Citizen suit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clean_Power_Plan" title="Clean Power Plan">Clean Power Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy" title="Corporate average fuel economy">Corporate average fuel economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discharge_Monitoring_Report" title="Discharge Monitoring Report">Discharge Monitoring Report</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Effluent_guidelines" title="Effluent guidelines">Effluent guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_crime" title="Environmental crime">Environmental crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_statement" title="Environmental impact statement">Environmental impact statement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_justice" title="Environmental justice">Environmental justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulation_of_greenhouse_gases_under_the_Clean_Air_Act" title="Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act">Executive Order 13432</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_13990" title="Executive Order 13990">Executive Order 13990</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulation_of_greenhouse_gases_under_the_Clean_Air_Act" title="Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act">LDV Rule</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximum_contaminant_level" title="Maximum contaminant level">Maximum contaminant level</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ambient_Air_Quality_Standards" title="National Ambient Air Quality Standards">National Ambient Air Quality Standards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Climate_Assessment" title="National Climate Assessment">National Climate Assessment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Emissions_Standards_for_Hazardous_Air_Pollutants" title="National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants">National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Priorities_List" title="National Priorities List">National Priorities List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Source_Performance_Standards" title="New Source Performance Standards">New Source Performance Standards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Source_Review" title="New Source Review">New Source Review</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Not-To-Exceed" title="Not-To-Exceed">Not-To-Exceed (NTE)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PACE_financing" title="PACE financing">PACE financing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Climate_Action_Plan" title="Presidential Climate Action Plan">Presidential Climate Action Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renewable_Fuel_Standard_(United_States)" title="Renewable Fuel Standard (United States)">Renewable Fuel Standard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_to_know" title="Right to know">Right to know</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Section_608" title="Section 608">Section 608 Certification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Significant_New_Alternatives_Policy" title="Significant New Alternatives Policy">Significant New Alternatives Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Climate" title="State of the Climate">State of the Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulation_of_greenhouse_gases_under_the_Clean_Air_Act" title="Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act">Tailoring Rule</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Total_maximum_daily_load" title="Total maximum daily load">Total maximum daily load</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toxicity_category_rating" title="Toxicity category rating">Toxicity category rating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranium_Mill_Tailings_Remedial_Action" title="Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action">Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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List</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Master_list_of_Nixon%27s_political_opponents" title="Master list of Nixon's political opponents">list of opponents</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_CHAOS" title="Operation CHAOS">Operation CHAOS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal" title="Timeline of the Watergate scandal">timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes" title="Nixon White House tapes">White House tapes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Nixon" title="United States v. Nixon">United States v. Nixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Watergate_Committee" title="United States Senate Watergate Committee">Senate Watergate Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_process_against_Richard_Nixon" title="Impeachment process against Richard Nixon">impeachment process</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_am_not_a_crook" class="mw-redirect" title="I am not a crook">I am not a crook</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal#Resignation" title="Watergate scandal">Resignation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_resignation_speech" title="Richard Nixon's resignation speech">speech</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Pardon of Richard Nixon">Pardon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Union" title="State of the Union">State of the Union Address</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1970_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1970 State of the Union Address">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1971 State of the Union Address">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1972 State of the Union Address">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1973 State of the Union Address">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1974 State of the Union Address">1974</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_desk" title="Wilson desk">Wilson desk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Richard_Nixon" title="List of federal judges appointed by Richard Nixon">Judicial appointments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Richard Nixon Supreme Court candidates">Supreme Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_judicial_appointment_controversies" title="Richard Nixon judicial appointment controversies">controversies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Richard_Milhous_Nixon/Executive_orders" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Author:Richard Milhous Nixon/Executive orders">Executive Orders</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Richard_Milhous_Nixon/Presidential_Proclamations" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Author:Richard Milhous Nixon/Presidential Proclamations">Presidential Proclamations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Life and politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Foundation" title="Richard Nixon Foundation">Richard Nixon Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum">Presidential Library and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birthplace_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Birthplace of Richard Nixon">Birthplace and boyhood home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Checkers_speech" title="Checkers speech">Checkers speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcade" title="Attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade">1958 motorcade attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitchen_Debate" title="Kitchen Debate">Kitchen Debate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_40" title="Operation 40">Operation 40</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_November_1962_press_conference" title="Richard Nixon's November 1962 press conference">"Last press conference"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florida_White_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida White House">Florida White House</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/La_Casa_Pacifica" title="La Casa Pacifica">La Casa Pacifica</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_the_National_Interest" title="Center for the National Interest">Nixon Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_v._General_Services_Administration" title="Nixon v. General Services Administration">Nixon v. General Services Administration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon">Death and state funeral</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Six_Crises" title="Six Crises">Six Crises (1962)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Bibliography of Richard Nixon">Bibliography</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Electoral history of Richard Nixon">Elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>U.S. House of Representatives: <a href="/wiki/1946_California%27s_12th_congressional_district_election" title="1946 California's 12th congressional district election">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1948 United States House of Representatives elections">1948</a></li> <li>U.S. Senate: <a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California" title="1950 United States Senate election in California">1950</a></li> <li>California gubernatorial election: <a href="/wiki/1962_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1962 California gubernatorial election">1962</a></li> <li>GOP presidential primaries: <a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1960 Republican Party presidential primaries">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1964 Republican Party presidential primaries">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1968 Republican Party presidential primaries">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1972 Republican Party presidential primaries">1972</a></li> <li>GOP national conventions: <a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_National_Convention" title="1952 Republican National Convention">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_National_Convention" title="1956 Republican National Convention">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_National_Convention" title="1960 Republican National Convention">1960</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1960_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1960 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_National_Convention" title="1968 Republican National Convention">1968</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1968_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_National_Convention" title="1972 Republican National Convention">1972</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1972_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1972 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li></ul></li> <li>Presidential elections: <a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election" title="1952 United States presidential election">1952</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Presidential transition of Dwight D. Eisenhower">transition</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election" title="1956 United States presidential election">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election" title="1960 United States presidential election">1960</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_debates" title="1960 United States presidential debates">debates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Presidential transition of John F. Kennedy">Kennedy transition</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election" title="1968 United States presidential election">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election" title="1972 United States presidential election">1972</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon">Popular culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Nixon_goes_to_China" title="Nixon goes to China">Nixon goes to China</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millhouse_(film)" title="Millhouse (film)">Millhouse (1971 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_Evening_with_Richard_Nixon" title="An Evening with Richard Nixon">An Evening with Richard Nixon</a> (1972 play)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_(film)" title="Richard (film)">Richard</a> (1972 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Another_Nice_Mess" title="Another Nice Mess">Another Nice Mess</a> (1972 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_More_Years" title="Four More Years">Four More Years (1972 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeach_the_President" title="Impeach the President">Impeach the President (1973 song)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Werewolf_of_Washington" title="The Werewolf of Washington">The Werewolf of Washington</a> (1973 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_House_Madness" title="White House Madness">White House Madness (1975 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_(film)" title="All the President's Men (film)">All the President's Men (1976 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Public_Burning" title="The Public Burning">The Public Burning</a> (1977 novel)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington:_Behind_Closed_Doors" title="Washington: Behind Closed Doors">Washington: Behind Closed Doors</a> (1977 miniseries)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secret_Honor" title="Secret Honor">Secret Honor (1984 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_in_China" title="Nixon in China">Nixon in China (1987 opera)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Final_Days_(1989_film)" title="The Final Days (1989 film)">The Final Days</a> (1989 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_(film)" title="Nixon (film)">Nixon (1995 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_Meets_Nixon" title="Elvis Meets Nixon">Elvis Meets Nixon (1997 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Futurama_characters#Richard_Nixon" title="List of Futurama characters">Futurama</a> (1999 TV series)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_(film)" title="Dick (film)">Dick (1999 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon%27s_China_Game" title="Nixon's China Game">Nixon's China Game</a> (2000 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_(2002_film)" title="Dark Side of the Moon (2002 film)">Dark Side of the Moon</a> (2002 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Assassination_of_Richard_Nixon" title="The Assassination of Richard Nixon">The Assassination of Richard Nixon</a> (2004 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_interviews" title="Nixon interviews">Frost–Nixon interviews</a> (<a href="/wiki/Frost/Nixon_(play)" title="Frost/Nixon (play)">2006 play</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frost/Nixon_(film)" title="Frost/Nixon (film)">2008 film</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Dynamite" title="Black Dynamite">Black Dynamite</a> (2009 film)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Impossible_Astronaut" title="The Impossible Astronaut">The Impossible Astronaut</a>" (2011 TV episode)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Nixon" title="Our Nixon">Our Nixon (2013 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past" title="X-Men: Days of Future Past">X-Men: Days of Future Past</a> (2014 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crooked_(novel)" title="Crooked (novel)">Crooked</a> (2015 novel)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_%26_Nixon" title="Elvis & Nixon">Elvis & Nixon (2016 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Post_(film)" title="The Post (film)">The Post</a> (2017 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watergate_(board_game)" title="Watergate (board game)">Watergate</a> (2019 board game)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidents_of_the_United_States_on_U.S._postage_stamps#Richard_M._Nixon" title="Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps">U.S. postage stamp</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Recordings_and_Materials_Preservation_Act" title="Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act">Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Townhouse" title="Presidential Townhouse">Presidential Townhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_mask" title="Richard Nixon mask">Richard Nixon mask</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Staff</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Brennan" title="Jack Brennan">Jack Brennan</a> (aide de camp)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Chotiner" title="Murray Chotiner">Murray Chotiner</a> (early campaign manager)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manolo_Sanchez_(Nixon_staff_member)" class="mw-redirect" title="Manolo Sanchez (Nixon staff member)">Manolo Sanchez</a> (valet)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods" title="Rose Mary Woods">Rose Mary Woods</a> (secretary)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Nixon" title="Pat Nixon">Thelma "Pat" Ryan Nixon</a> (wife)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tricia_Nixon_Cox" title="Tricia Nixon Cox">Tricia Nixon Cox</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julie_Nixon_Eisenhower" title="Julie Nixon Eisenhower">Julie Nixon Eisenhower</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nixon_Cox" title="Christopher Nixon Cox">Christopher Nixon Cox</a> (grandson)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennie_Eisenhower" title="Jennie Eisenhower">Jennie Eisenhower</a> (granddaughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_A._Nixon" title="Francis A. 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