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“Species” – “any subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants, and any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife which interbreeds when mature”TRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to the Clean Water ActAnd Water Quality Regulation
Tracy Hester
Environmental LawFall 2012
November 8, 2012
Tracy Hester
Environmental LawFall 2015
November 10, 2015
Introduction to the EndangeredSpecies Act
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ESA Engines
• Listing of species as endangered or threatened and designation of critical habitat – Section 4
• Consultation and “no jeopardy” requirement for federal action – Section 7
• Prohibition on “taking” – Section 9
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“Species” – “any subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants, and any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife which interbreeds when mature”
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What is a species?
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WildEarth Guardians settlement
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Candidate Conservation Agreements
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Sage Grouse
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ESA and Climate Change
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Species Triage?
• Competing species for limited natural resources and food supplies
• Limited scientific and financial assets available to save all species
• Ethics based arguments to limit extraordinary efforts to save species
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Lazarus Project
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Resurrection of extinct species
• Gastric brooding frog extinct in the wild in 1980s
• Genetically unique – only known species with this type of brooding
• Successfully cloned in 2013