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Informationen zum Autor Lowell E. Baier is an attorney and a legal and environmental historian and author. Baier holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University, a J.D. from Indiana University and has received two honorary doctorates. He’s worked in Washington, D.C. throughout his 56-year career as a tireless advocate for natural resources and wildlife conservation. Throughout his career, he has observed and documented wildlife and its habitats on extensive treks and expeditions in the mountains and wilderness regions across the North American Continent, the Pamirs and Caucasus of Russia, and Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and Altai Mountains, providing him with first hand observations of wildlife and man’s interactions across the globe. He was recognized as the Conservationist of the Year by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2008, and again in 2010 and 2013 by two different national organizations. Klappentext 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 nation's species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists. The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of this law, and provides an opportunity for a measured and thorough evaluation thereof. We cannot know today's challenges and opportunities without understanding their histories. This book is the most comprehensive history of the ESA ever published, and the first to consider the entire history of the law from all angles in a single volume. The history of the ESA has been one of increasing impact, complexity, and controversy. In 1978, the Supreme Court declared that Congress intended for the U.S. government to save all species at any cost, and thereafter application of the ESA became steadily more controversial, as seen in the example of the northern spotted owl and the timber wars in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early 90s, and then everywhere as the ESA became a political football in the highly partisan environment of the late 1990s and amendments to the law ceased. This book is not only a history, but a call to action. It will take more conservation, more funding, and more innovative solutions if we are to save our wildlife and biodiversity. It will take the engagement to every American to muster the collective will to meet this challenge. The hope of this book is that we will be able to look back and say that we accomplished more in the second 50 years of the ESA than we did in the first. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive history that covers all aspects of America’s most important and controversial environmental law. It describes the history of extinction, the creation of ESA, subsequent legislative, judicial, and political events, and contemporary challenges and opportunities for wildlife conservation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsGuide to Acronyms and TermsForewordPrologue: Peril and PromiseDedicationPart I: The Evolution of the Endangered Species ActChapter 1: The Evolution of Wildlife Management and the Extinction Crisis Prior to 1973Wildlife in Early American HistorySportsmen Emerge as the Driving Force for Wildlife ConservationPost-Civil War Views of WildlifeProtective Actions After 1900The Development of Professional Wildlife ManagementThe Early DaysThe Leopold EraThe American Game Policy of 1930Education, Funding, and Federal AidThe Evolution Towards Wildlife ProtectionWildlife and Environmental Laws from the 1960s to Today1973: A Watershed Year for Wildlife ManagementChapter 2: The Creation of the Endangered Species Act - 1966, 1969 and 1973The Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969Endangered Species Legislation: 1971Endangered Species Legislation: 1972The House - 1972The Senate - 19721973 - The House1973 - T...
