Endangered Species & Wetlands Report links page
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Endangered Species & Wetlands Report
Topics
Endangered Species Act
Federal agencies
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
endangered species program: Information on listed species and links to FWS offices and programs--HCPs, recovery planning, et al.
- Lists of threatened and endangered
species
- FWS main Web page
- Division of Refuges page
- FWS Pacific Region (Region 1) home page (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands)
- Alaska region (Region 7)
- FWS Southwest region (Region 2) (Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico)
- FWS Mountain-Prairie region (Region 6) (North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Montana)
- Great Lakes-Big Rivers region (Region 3) (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin)
- FWS Southeast region (Region 4) (North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida)
- Northeast Region (Region 5) (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia)
Environmental Protection Agency
- Administrative Decisions and Orders
from EPA's Administrative Law Judges (includes Clean Water Act, wetlands decisions)
- EPA's Endangered Species Protection Program (ESPP)
- EPA Office of Wetlands and
Watersheds Sitemap
- EPA Wetlands page
- Press releases
- EPA Press Releases - REGIONAL
- EPA New England
- EPA - R2 - NY, NJ, PR, V.I. (not updated)
- EPA R 3 - DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV
- EPA- R 4 - KY, TN, NC, SC, FL, MS, AL, GA (not up-to-date)
- EPA R5 - IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI
- EPA R 6 - NM, TX, OK, AR, LA
- EPA R7 - IA, KS, MO, NE
- EPA R8 - CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY
- EPA R 9 (California)
- EPA R10 - WA, OR, AK, ID
- EPA - Regions
Other departments, agencies
State fish and wildlife/natural resources agencies
Congress
Legal-General
Federal Courts
These sites have opinions from the federal courts. Some are more up-to-date and thorough than others, but they all have search engines. Geographic jurisdiction of circuit courts of appeal is in parentheses
Supreme Court
Circuit Courts of Appeal
- D.C. Cir. opinions from official site (up-to-date) (Opinions from Georgetown U. Law Center (not as current)
- 1st Cir. official page (Maine, Mass., N.H., P.R., R.I.) (Opinions) (Decisions from Nov. 1995-July 2001 (Emory Law School page)
- 2nd Cir. page (Conn., N.Y., and Vt.) (Touro Law School page)
- 3rd. Cir. page (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware) (Opinions (a couple weeks behind) here (Villanova Law School)
- 4th Cir. page (Md., N.C., S.C., Va., W.Va.) (Today's opinions) (Opinions from Jan. 1995 to July 2001; Emory)
- Fifth Circuit opinions (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi) (5th Cir. official page)
- 6th Cir. page (Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee) (Opinions)
- 7th Cir. page (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin) (Opinions)
- 8th Cir. page (Arkansas,
Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri) (Today's opinions)
- 9th Cir. page (Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Hawaii, Idaho, Ore., Mont., Nev., Wash.) (Opinions)
- 10th Cir. page (Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming) (Latest opinions)
- 11th Cir. page (Alabama, Florida, Georgia) (Opinions, Emory Law School)
- Federal Cir. Page
Findlaw circuit court opinion links
District Courts
State courts
Takings cases
- Federal Circuit Court of Appeals:
Opinions issued by the appeals court for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, which handles takings claims from landowners seeking compensation from the federal government.
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims opinions
- Environmental Policy Project page (Done by the Georgetown U. Law Center) ("The Project seeks to promote a positive understanding of the role of democratic institutions in developing and implementing property rules and regulatory policies necessary to protect private property values, public health and safety and the environment, and other aspects of the general welfare.")
- Community Rights Counsel ("A public interest law firm defending laws that make our communities healthier, more livable, and socially just." Focuses on land-use cases.)
- National Wildlife Federation's takings page
- Defenders of Property Rights: "The
only national public interest legal foundation devoted exclusively to protecting private property
rights."
Mountain States Legal Foundation
- Pacific Legal Foundation: Very active. "A voice that speaks for less government and the preservation of free enterprise, private property rights and individual liberties."
- Washington Legal Foundation: "The nation's preeminent center for public interest law-advocating free-enterprise principles, limited government, property rights, and reform of the civil and criminal justice system." (in D.C.)
Newspapers
Electronic media
Non-governmental organizations
Environmental groups
Environmental groups (Legal)
Industry and private property rights groups (including "free-market enviros")
- American Forest & Paper Association: Represents timber and paper companies.
- National Association of Home Builders
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- National Cattlemen's Beef Association
- The National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition
(NESARC): Contains over 200 member organizations representing utilities, irrigation districts, farming interests, and other groups. Quote: "[D]edicated to bringing balance back to the
Endangered Species Act."
- American Land Rights Association
- Blue Ribbon Coalition: Represents recreational users of public lands, such as ORV, ATV users.
- Washington Legal Foundation: Describes itself as " "the
nation's preeminent center for public interest law advocating free-enterprise principles, limited
government, property rights, and reform of the civil and criminal justice system."
- Political Economy Research Center: "PERC is a
market-oriented think tank focusing on environmental and natural resource issues. Our research
and policy analysis covers endangered species such as tigers, forestry, fisheries, mines, parks,
public lands, property rights, Superfund, water, wildlife, and environmental education."
- Defenders of Property Rights: "The
only national public interest legal foundation devoted exclusively to protecting private property
rights."
Other publications
Salmon issues -- Pacific Northwest
Wetlands links
Government Printing Office (including Federal Register)
Etc. -- Other links, lists of links
- Endangered wildlife of Florida (Page devoted to the many endangered species in that state, by a woman who lives in the Ocala National Forest)
- Yahoo list of endangered species links
- Another list of links, from Lara's Endangered Species Page.
- Sweet Home,
Oregon, page on the northern spotted owl. Interesting collection of materials from the town
in the Supreme Court case.
- Conservation Biology: Publications and Reports (from Forest Guardians Web page)
- Quantifying threats to imperiled species in the United States - Assessing the relative importance of habitat destruction, alien species, pollution, overexploitation, and disease By David S Wilcove; David Rothstein; Jason Dubow; Ali Phillips; Elizabeth Losos BioScience, Vol. 48, No. 8, 8/1/98 (From Forest
Guardians page)
- CZMA Consistency Appeals web site
http://www.eswr.com/links.htm -- Updated 7/8/03