November 7, 2020 Trump Admin regulatory changes would end ESA landgrabs In 2011, FWS designated over 1,500 acres of land as critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog. Despite this designation, the dusky gopher frog…
July 2, 2020 Stop designating “critical habitat” for endangered species where none exist The Court’s unanimous “scolding” of the USFWS was the subject of many editorials and columns, but only a few of us actually speculated, at…
September 13, 2019 Endangered Species restoration doesn’t need more funding, it needs less federal regulation Here is a simple recommendation for how sponsors could best “fix” the bill. Take out the federal funding parts, eliminate all the federal regulatory…
September 9, 2019 Federal overreach on private property puts endangered species at greater risk The reason for the law’s mixed results is clear: It makes rare species a significant liability for landowners, rather than an asset. Consequently, landowners…
August 12, 2019 Endangered Species revisions put science before political activism The ESA directs that determinations to add or remove a species from the lists of threatened or endangered species be based solely on the…
July 30, 2019 Western leaders denounce “activist” relisting of Yellowstone grizzly as endangered “The court-ordered relisting of the grizzly was not based on science or facts, but was rather the result of excessive litigation pursued by radical…
July 17, 2019 U.S. Fish & Wildlife backs off private property grab over Louisiana gopher frog “…the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana approved a consent decree last week. Per the agreement, FWS will no longer protect…
July 13, 2019 Science supports removing Yellowstone grizzly from Endangered Species list Instead of recognizing the successful recovery of the Yellowstone grizzly, radical environmentalists have sought repeatedly, and for an ever-changing list of reasons, to invalidate…
March 13, 2019 As wolf number rise sharply, federal delisting plan considered Jerome Rosa, executive director of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association, said the announcement confirms that wolf recovery is on track, and gives ranchers in Western…
February 15, 2019 States must have a role in endangered species determinations “When an animal is categorized as an endangered species, it is the states and local communities that are most impacted, but currently they can’t…
