Back from the Brink. Daniel Glick.
by Glick, Daniel; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 40Environment. Publisher: Smithsonian, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Bald eagle | Birds | Chinook salmon | Chiricahua leopard frog | Endangered species | Endangered Species Act (1973) | Green turtle | Grizzly bear | Karner blue butterfly | Palila | Red-cockaded woodpecker | Sea otter | Whooping craneDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In 1900, Congress passed the Lacey Act, which prohibited interstate trade of wildlife taken illegally. Efforts to safeguard the nation's natural heritage culminated in the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA), signed into law by President Richard Nixon. It requires federal authorities to identify threatened or endangered animal and plant species and to help them recover, often by restricting how their habitats may be used. The ESA is supplemented by scores of conservation, hunting and antipollution laws, and the nation's protected lands--almost a third of the United States is publicly owned. But for 30 years the ESA has been the key to conservation. Today, more than 1,200 plants and animals are listed under the law as threatened or endangered, and thousands more are 'species of concern.'" (SMITHSONIAN) The author presents ten successful accounts of endangered species "that have made a comeback since Americans began protecting them in earnest a century ago." The species profiled in this article include the grizzly bear and the bald eagle.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
Originally Published: Back from the Brink, Sept. 2005; pp. 54-63.
"In 1900, Congress passed the Lacey Act, which prohibited interstate trade of wildlife taken illegally. Efforts to safeguard the nation's natural heritage culminated in the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA), signed into law by President Richard Nixon. It requires federal authorities to identify threatened or endangered animal and plant species and to help them recover, often by restricting how their habitats may be used. The ESA is supplemented by scores of conservation, hunting and antipollution laws, and the nation's protected lands--almost a third of the United States is publicly owned. But for 30 years the ESA has been the key to conservation. Today, more than 1,200 plants and animals are listed under the law as threatened or endangered, and thousands more are 'species of concern.'" (SMITHSONIAN) The author presents ten successful accounts of endangered species "that have made a comeback since Americans began protecting them in earnest a century ago." The species profiled in this article include the grizzly bear and the bald eagle.
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