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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

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Several endangered species are (or have been) highly dependent on specific tracts of federal land. Thus, legal protections for endangered species and conservation generally are at their zenith on federal lands. For example, Whooping Cranes winter almost exclusively at Aransas NWR in Texas.

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Will Environmental Laws Prevent a Wall Through Santa Ana NWR?

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One might assume that construction of a border wall through a sensitive national wildlife refuge would be prevented, or at least slowed, by a thicket of lawsuits under statutes such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This appears to include both state and federal laws.

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Bird Litigation:  Greater Sage-Grouse and Oil and Natural Gas Leases

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Rather, it turned on arcane issues of administrative law. Every law school has an Administrative Law class that focuses on the APA and related laws. The case did not turn on facts regarding threats that leases posed to sage-grouse or any other conservation facts or policies.

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A Year of Birding in Costa Rica- Highlights and a Few Birds Missed

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In Costa Rica, seeing 48 hummingbird species means seeing nearly all of the regular ones. Based on unwritten, invisible birding laws, this means I’ll probably run into one tomorrow. Yellow-billed Cotinga – I had excellent looks of this surreal, endangered species at Cerro Lodge, and Rincon de Osa.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

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I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. I suspect many pageviews are by birders who feel they ought to know a bit more about how the law impacts bird conservation, rather than their intrinsic interest of the topic.

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Endangered Birds: 50th Anniversary for the Class of 1967

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Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. The first list of U.S. The links are to the U.S.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. I suspect many pageviews are by birders who feel they ought to know a bit more about how the law impacts bird conservation, rather than their intrinsic interest of the topic.