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PRO: The Tejon agreement is a true conservation victory

Graham Chisholm believes that an agreement involving open space, a large housing development and condor habitat on California’s Tejon Ranch is a “true conservation victory.”

by Graham Chisholm, Jun 23, 2008
CON: A housing development that’s a tragedy for condors

The Tejon Ranch agreement, which will allow a housing development to be build in the midst of rare condor critical habitat, is a disaster for the endangered birds, according to Noel Snyder and David Clendenen.

by Noel Snyder and David Clendenen, Jun 23, 2008
Two weeks in the West

Colorado Lynx are in trouble; oil and gas bounty hunter is rebuked; Energy Department tests new larger containers for radioactive waste; saving money and salmon; Measure 37 cold war continues; public library use in the West; and snowmobile data

by Staff, Dec 11, 2006
Spotted owl or red herring?

Although logging has declined drastically in the Pacific Northwest, it’s not necessarily the fault of the Endangered Species Act or the northern spotted owl.

by Kathie Durban, Mar 20, 2006
Reality Check

Misinformation and exaggeration abound in the debate over the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat provisions

by Tony Davis and Greg Hanscom, Mar 20, 2006
ESA talks end in stalemate

A working group of 23 experts convened by the nonprofit Keystone Center could not reach consensus over how to reform the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat provisions

by Tony Davis, Mar 20, 2006
Critical Habitat: The Inside Story

A behind-the-scenes look at the struggle over critical habitat reveals the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be an agency at war with itself

by Tony Davis, Feb 20, 2006
The difficulties of cohabitation

Despite its problems and failures – many of them arising from the conflict between the United States’ growing population and our declining wildlife habitat – the Endangered Species Act is a necessary law

by Paul Larmer, Feb 20, 2006
High Noon for Habitat

In Riverside County, Calif., the conflict between the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat rule and the West’s booming, sprawling, growth-driven economy comes to a head

by Tony Davis, Feb 20, 2006
Agency slashes critical habitat for salmon

Faced with a lawsuit by the National Association of Home Builders, NOAA Fisheries decides to strip protections from four-fifths of the currently designated critical habitat for salmon

by Emma Brown, Sep 19, 2005

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PRO: The Tejon agreement is a true conservation victory

CON: A housing development that’s a tragedy for condors

Two weeks in the West

Spotted owl or red herring?

Reality Check

ESA talks end in stalemate

Critical Habitat: The Inside Story

The difficulties of cohabitation

High Noon for Habitat

Agency slashes critical habitat for salmon

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