Endangered Species Act

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Marine Mammal Protection Act

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ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Websites

California Department of Fish and Game
Habitat Conservation Planning Branch - website on California's threatened and endangered species.

ESAinfo
Focusing on salmon and trout species preservation in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. Provides testimony on costs associated with ESA compliance.

Klamath Basin Crisis
Klamath Relief Fund
Klamath Water Foundation

Interim Report from the Committee on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin, National Research Council, February 2002

National Cattlemen's Beef Association (Public Policy Center)
Fact Sheet: Endangered Species Act Reauthorization.

Articles
(alphabetically by author / copyright holder)

Foster, Sarah
Destination: Klamath Falls! Convoys Deliver Hope, Support to Beleaguered Farmers
"Help is on the way for the 1,400 farm and ranch families of the Klamath River Basin, whose lives and communities were shattered last April by a court-ordered irrigation ban." Copyright WorldNetDaily.com (September 2001)

Grant, Fred Kelly
Property Owners Triumph Over ESA
"Finally, property owners are rewarded with a judicial victory under the Endangered Species Act which is more than a mere matter of process.  On September 19, 2001, United States District Judge Susan R. Bolton, in the Arizona District, set aside designation of the critical habitat for the pygmy owl, opening the way for private property owners to use their property without federal permits." Copyright Stewards of the Range. (September 2001)

Keye, William
Mill Towns Subsist on Logs from Afar: Environmentalists Keep Them from Taking Dead Trees out of Forest
"It used to be about protecting spotted owls, saving old-growth forests or putting an end to clear-cutting," says the chairman of the Northern California Society of American Foresters. "Now the demand is for absolute purity. To many environmentalists in 2001, nothing less than 'zero cut' is acceptable - no commercial timber harvesting from America's vast network of publicly owned national forests." Copyright © The Sacramento Bee. (October 2001)

Malkin, Michelle
Hostile Fire from Eco-Extremists
"Which is more important: Well-trained Navy pilots or well-rested toads? Increased military preparedness or increased antelope populations? Improved bombing facilities or improved fairy shrimp habitats? The choice of environmental extremists, no-growth activists and NIMBY ("not-in-my-backyard") agitators across the country is clear. Even in wartime, this gang of greenies continues to put obscure plants, microscopic critters and sacred "open space" above their countrymen." Copyright The Washington Times. (December 2001)

Milstein, Michael
Klamath Plan Backs Irrigation
"Klamath Basin farmers would get nearly a full supply of irrigation water through the next decade under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Bush administration, but they could voluntarily sell water back to the government through a 'water bank' set up to help protected fish." The Oregonian. (Jan. 29, 2002)

Milstein, Michael
Science, Politics Uneasy Partners
"Two words - 'sound science' - have become a catch phrase for those on all sides of contentious decisions over logging, water, wildlife and other natural resource issues that define the destiny of the West. It echoes through the Klamath Basin, the snowy slopes of the Cascades and the Northwest's sentinel forests." The Oregonian. (Jan. 23, 2002)

MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT

Websites

Dallas Morning News
Greenland Pushing for Seal Fur Exports; Environmentalists Maintain Opposition
Reproduced by Fur Commission USA with permission. (Dec. 22, 1999)

Eegeesiak, Okalik and Sheila Watt-Cloutier
The Strange Politics of the Marine Mammal Protection Act
Okalik Eegeesiak is president of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, and Sheila Watt-Cloutier is president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Canada. Reproduced by Fur Commission USA with permission. (July 26, 1999)

Fur Commission USA
National Animal Interest Alliance Highlights Human Rights, Animal Welfare
Includes Animal Law Conference Resolution specifically addressing the MMPA. Press release. (Mar. 7, 2000)

Fur Commission USA
Court Finds IFAW Video Evidence Inadmissible
Canadian court refuses to consider a video of alleged transgressions by sealers submitted by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. (Apr. 21, 1999)

Fur Commission USA
Saving Society from Animal "Snuff" Films
Commentary includes information on staged film of sealing cruelty. (Dec. 15, 1998, updated July 4, 2000)

Herscovici, Alan
The Rise and Fall of Animal Rights
Herscovici, a Montreal-based writer and consultant specializing in environmental issues, is the author of Second Nature: The Animal-Rights Controversy, and chairman of the Canadian Fur Industry Adjustment Committee. (October 1998)

Kronman, Mick
Self-Service: Swollen Sea Lion Herds Push Fish and Fishermen to the Brink
Mick Kronman is Pacific Bureau Chief for National Fisherman magazine. (May 1998)

Mastny, Lisa
Coming to Terms with the Arctic
"By melding ancient hunting traditions with modern political technique, Arctic indigenous peoples present a baffling challenge to environmental diplomacy. As the Arctic ecology itself begins to change, the need for a common understanding is growing increasingly urgent." This article first appeared in the January/February 2000 edition of "World Watch", published by the World Watch Institute, and is distributed by Fur Commission USA with permission. (PDF format; January 2000)

Scott, Michael
The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
Michael Scott is a senior scientist with the Dolphin Programme of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. (August 1998)

Walker, Ruth
The PR Problems of Canada's "Other" Seal Hunt : The Inuit, who depend on seals for food, seek a market for the skins
"Ever since the first contact with 'the West,' going back to early European explorers like Martin Frobisher in the 1570s, the question for the Inuit has been, 'What can we sell to the world?' As dependent on imports as ever, the people of the new Canadian territory of Nunavut, in the eastern Arctic, are asking the same question today. But one of the potentially most promising answers - expanding the sealskin trade - is entangled in the international politics of hunting." Copyright the Christian Science Monitor. (May 1, 2000)

West Nordic Council
How Can Anyone Kill a Seal? How Can Anyone Possibly Kill a Whale?
"These are natural questions from people who have spent their lives in populous western cities. To the peoples from northern regions, these questions provoke no more concern than the question, 'How can anyone ever kill a pig or a cow?'" Statement from the West Nordic Council to mark its theme for 2001, "West Nordic Hunting Culture". (Apr. 27, 2001)

Other materials:
Alliance for America resolution calling for the amendment of the MMPA
(May 2001)

The Effects on Inuit Towards Marine Mammal Protection Act
Speech presented by Theresie Tungilik, Senior Advisor Arts Economy, Department of Sustainable Development, Government of Nunavut. Outside link to the Alliance for America. (May 2001)

National Animal Interest Alliance [NAIA] Law Conference resolution on the MMPA
(March 2000)