The elimination of the Category 2 Candidate species list: a prescription for environmental train wrecks

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Until recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) maintained two categories of species considered candidates for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). These categories aided the FWS, other agencies and the public to identify and protect species in trouble before the formal, and typically more expensive, protections of the ESA were either necessary or available. The FWS has now eliminated one of these categories, which has reduced by over 95% the number of candidate species. In doing so, the FWS has taken a step backward in the effort to avoid the environmental and economic crises typified by the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) saga, despite the fact that Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt has often given the avoidance of such "train wrecks" as a prime objective of ESA implementation.

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Full Citation: Crystal, H. M. 1997. The elimination of the Category 2 Candidate species list: a prescription for environmental train wrecks. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. (http://www.umich.edu/~esupdate/library/97.01-02/crystal.html) Accessed online 3 Nov 2016.

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