Updating the Endangered Species Act...more
 

MCMORRIS INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO REQUIRE ESA COST TRANSPARENCY...more

Inhofe presses for ESA rewrite, as habitat stymies Keystone...more

WTC vs EPA Update

NOAA Fisheries recently decided to abandon a proposal to put Oregon coast coho back on the threatened species list under the Endangered Species Act. The department has received questions about how this affects the Washington Toxic Coalition vs. Environmental Protection Agency court case concerning buffer zones in certain water bodies. This recent decision does NOT affect the court ordered injunctive relief that was ordered in 2004.

The court ordered injunctive relief still requires buffer zones on bodies of water listed on the streamnet.org website, including those in the Oregon coast coho ESU and the S. Oregon/N. California coast coho ESU. Information on the ODA website continues to reflect the current status of this court order. That website can be found by 
following the following link:

http://oregon.gov/ODA/PEST/buffers.shtml


Salmon policy finally hooks common sense...more


New direction for salmon recovery Better hatchery management, smaller catch in new plan...more

 

Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to pesticide buffers...more

Supreme Court rejects challenge to
no-spray buffers around salmon streams... 

Fix ESA without partisan politics...more

House Bill Report for TESRA

Tesra Markup - 9.22.05

H.R. 3824, TESRA

TESRA Background & Need

Summary & Analysis

Section by Section

ESA Amendment, September 21...more
 

Friends:
Below is the text of the ESA bill that recently passed the House.  The bill in a PDF Format, so it can be read by all.

                ESA bill  HR-3824

You will also find other ESA Information at the link below...
               ESA INFORMATION



 

EPA Finalizes Approach to Field Implementation of Endangered Species   
             Protection Program

Today, EPA published in the Federal Register (FR) a notice that outlines the Agency's approach to field implementation of its Endangered Species Protection Program (ESPP). The notice also responds to comments received from the public in response to the Agency's December 2002, FR notice proposing its approach to field implementation.

The goal of the ESPP is to carry out responsibilities under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) in compliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by providing appropriate protection to listed species and their designated critical habitats from potential harm due to pesticide use, while at the same time not placing unnecessary burden on the agriculture community and other pesticide users.  EPA will implement its program through pesticide label statements that refer users to Endangered
Species Protection Bulletins (Bulletins), as appropriate, when geographically specific use limitations are necessary to protect federally
listed species or their designated critical habitat.   Bulletins will generally include a map of the county or parish to which it applies, a
description of the species being protected, a list of the pesticides of concern and their use limitations.  These use limitations will be
enforceable under the misuse provisions of FIFRA. Once pesticide labels with such labeling appear in the marketplace, Bulletins will be available via the EPA's Website or via a toll free number; both of which will be identified on
the pesticide label.

The  Federal Register Notice can be found at:
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/November/Day-02/p21838.htm .  For
additional information on the technical, scientific or risk assessment
aspects of the program, contact Arty Williams at 703-305-7695 or williams.arty@epa.gov.  If you have questions about field implementation of the ESPP, please contact Mary Powell at 703 305-7384 or powell.mary@epa.gov.
 

House Panel Passes Bipartisan Measure to Improve Endangered Species Act...more
 

The link below will take you to Congressman Pombo's Website.

Report: Implementation of
The Endangered Species Act of 1973

CONGRESSMAN GREG WALDEN

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., appears at a Sept. 19 rally in Klamath Falls, Ore., announcing a bill to reform the 32-year-old Endangered Species Act. Walden said the changes are needed “so we never see a situation like we had in Klamath Falls again.” He was referring to the 2001 shutoff of irrigation water under the ESA....more
 

ENDANGERED SPECIOUS "FACTS"...ONLY YOU CAN ENDANGER PEOPLE
"Only you can prevent forest fires." That's what Smokey the Bear always says. Obviously, he's never been a victim of the Endangered Species Act. How can you possibly prevent forest fires if you're not even allowed to get the water to put it out?...more
 

REPORT: Implementation of The Endangered Species Act of 1973

An Endangered Species Fights Back
An editorial cartoon in the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News says it all: An upright, gun-toting fish tells a fellow "hunter"-fish that it's okay to go after crops, but he should watch out for farmers because "they're an endangered species."...more




 

According to Fish & Wildlife Service data:

Lawmakers slam Endangered Species Act
House members: Law must be fixed to benefit communities over animals
BELEN, N.M. – In a field hearing here to discuss the effects of a recent 10th Circuit Court decision decreeing that under the Endangered Species Act the Rio Grande endangered silvery minnow has a higher priority for water than any other user – including farmers, ranchers and municipalities – members of the U.S. House Committee on Resources pulled no punches in declaring the law was harming the American way of life in the West and had to be "fixed."...more