The Codex of the Endangered Species Act, Volume II: The Next Fifty Years [Hardcover]

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nations species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists.

In this volume, leading Endangered Species Act experts interpret and propose legislative and administrative changes to prepare the ESA for future challenges. They explore regulations on avoiding harm to and producing benefits for species, cooperation between state and federal agencies, scientific analyses, and the necessary politics to enact their ideas.

This is a call to action to chart an enlightened future for the Endangered Species Act that embraces the nations moral commitment of 50 years ago to address species extinction constructively, mindful of biodiversity, and as a fixture among the nations values and needs. The interconnected web of life includes all living species that depend on each other for survival, us among them. The stakesour very futureare too high to ignore.

Lowell E. Baieris an attorney and a legal and environmental historian and author. He has worked in Washington, D.C. throughout his fifty-eight-year career as a tireless advocate for natural resources and wildlife conservation.

John F. Organis Chief of the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units and Senior Science Advisor for Cooperative Research for the U.S. Geological Survey.

If the last fifty years were about preventing extinction by establishing an effective ESA emergency room for the most imperiled species, the next half century must be about confronting the extinction crisis by building a system of preventative and rehabilitative care that invests both upstream to save at-risk species before theyre on the brink of extinction and to accelerate the recovery of species already listed. For years, Lowell Baier has been a key lÓ(