Archives for January, 2005

Why protect habitat alone?

Reposted from the old TfK. I suggested at the bottom of a longish post that the Endangered Species Act ought to be supplemented with an Endangered Ecosystem Act. The reason begins with thinking like a mountain. If you’ve read the last post and my Thinking Like a Savannah and you haven’t read Aldo Leopold’s Sand…

Species Recovery

Reposted from the old TfK. In the last weeks, there have been a bunch of stories about endangered species recovery and possible changes to the Endangered Species Act. I blogged on some of the issues raised before (and before that). The fundamental problem in many cases is that the ESA is not perfect. Western governors…