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Informationen zum Autor Lowell E. Baier is 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. Baier was recognized as the Conservationist of the Year by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2008, by Outdoor Life Magazine in 2010, and by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies in 2013. In 2016, the National Wildlife Federation awarded him their highest honor, the Jay N. "Ding" Darling Conservation Award for a lifetime of conservation service. He is the author of numerous books, including Inside the Equal Access to Justice Act: Environmental Litigation and the Crippling Battle over America's Lands, Endangered Species, and Critical Habitats; Saving Species on Private Lands: Unlocking Incentives to Conserve Wildlife and Their Habitats; and Federalism, Preemption, and the Nationalization of American Wildlife Management: The Dynamic Balance Between State and Federal Authority. Baier lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Klappentext 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. 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 - The Senate1973 - Conference Committee and Final ApprovalChapter 3: Implementing the Endangered Species Act of 1973: 1974-1980The Nixon Administration and Passage of the Endangered Species ActThe Ford Administration and Implementation of the Endangered Species ActRegulating Threatened SpeciesImplementing Section 6: Cooperation with the StatesThe 1976 Scrimshaw AmendmentThe Carter Administration and the End of the Environmental Consensus of the 1960sContinuing to Implement the Endangered Species Act Under the Carter AdministrationThe 1977 Section 6 Amendment and an Ominous Congressional OmissionThe Infamous Tellico Dam and the Snail DarterCongress and the Tellico DamThe Endangered Species CommitteeCompleting the Tellico DamFurther Amendments in 1978Section 7 ConsultationListing Procedures and Critical HabitatRecovery PlansOther Significant Amendments in 1978Minor Amendments in 19781979: Additional Minor Amendments to the Endangered Species ActThe Endangered Species Act at the End of the 1970s.Chapter 4: The Endangered Species Act and the Reagan Administration: Reversals and Progress: 1980-1988The Reagan RevolutionThe Reagan Administration in ActionThe Endangered Species Act Under Reagan1982: A Second Major Ame...
