Read collection of ESA articles from 2005



CNRG Goes to Washington DC

Formal Response to Petition of the Center For Biological Diversity To List The California Tiger Salamander as an Endangered Species Under The California Endangered Species Act. (200k PDF)

CNRG’s & the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Critical Habitat Survey

gnatcatcher critical habitat ruling

Carson Wandering Skipper Receives Emergency Protection

Draft Recovery Plan for Coastal Plants of the Northern San Francisco Peninsula up for public review.

Public Comment Notices
Tell the Government what you think of proposed designations.

Current Legislative Action
Get the latest information on new legislation that affects you.

Now available: Summaries of recent ESA cases

Pending Federal ESA Legislation

Updated Endangered Species Matrix

Maps of Existing Critical Habitat in the entire State of California and Southern California (3.3 MB PDF)

The Pygmy Owl Decision
The US District Court recently issued an order invalidating the critical habitat designation for the pygmy owl. Although not a California species, this decision has many impacts in California. Of particular interest is the admission by the Service that its own economic analysis was invalid. The Service requested that the court grant a "voluntary remand," but leave the overall critical habitat designation in place while the Service "fixed" the analysis. The court rejected this request and invalidated both the economic analysis and the designation as a whole.

Natural Community Conservation Planning (NCCP): The Origins of an Ambitious Experiment to Protect Ecosystems
This report reviews the legislative history of the NCCP program and its formative years of implementation, and notes several questions about the program's nature and purpose that remain unresolved.

The Environment: Promoting Community Based Stewardship
As America enters the 21st century, it is time to move beyond caustic rhetoric about who is most concerned with improving the environment and to start making hard policy decisions that will ensure the quality of the environment for future generations.

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