Endangered Species Act
State High Court Invalidates Logger's 'No Surprises' Guarantee
22 July 2008 - 9:00am | Author: CP&DR Staff
A logging plan and endangered species permit that were part of the Headwaters Forest deal approved by the state in 1999 have been invalidated by the state Supreme Court. The court set important precedents by rejecting both a “sustained yield plan” and an “incidental take” permit held by Pacific Lumber Company.
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Price: $2.95State's Approach To Species Protection Survives Loggers' Challenge
19 February 2008 - 12:48pm | Author: CP&DR Staff
A ruling that could result in more plant and animal listings under the California Endangered Species Act will stand. The state Supreme Court on February 13 declined to review a decision by the Third District Court of Appeal, which held that “evolutionary significant units” of a species may qualify for protection, and that state officials need only consider a species’ range within California.
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Price: $2.95No Subdivision Rules: Take That To The (Mitigation) Bank
24 September 2007 - 2:55pm | Author: CP&DR Staff
The creation of a “land bank” and the subsequent sale of mitigation credits within the bank is not subject to requirements of the Subdivision Map Act, according to the attorney general’s office.Price: $2.95 » read more | add to cart
Price: $2.95High Court Limits Endangered Species Protections
28 June 2007 - 10:00am | Author: Kenneth Jost
WASHINGTON _ Home builders are praising and environmentalists criticizing the Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to administer water pollution permitting programs without complying with a key provision in the federal Endangered Species Act. Price: $2.95 » read more | add to cart
Price: $2.95Builders, Administration Differ With Environmentalists On Species Review
4 May 2007 - 11:32am | Author: Kenneth JostWASHINGTON _ Home builders are hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that could broaden the impact of the federal Endangered Species Act on residential and commercial construction.
Price: $2.95Court Ruling Offers Warning To Habitat Plan Negotiators
1 February 2007 - 1:00am | Author: John KristWhen San Diego’s Multiple Species Conservation Plan (MSCP) was adopted a decade ago, then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared it “a model to the nation for how to plan for and balance the needs of man and nature.” Ambitious in geographical scale, daunting in jurisdictional complexity, the plan was intended to regulate development across nearly a quarter of the fast-urbanizing county in such a way as to minimize conflict over scores of rare, threatened or endangered species and their habitats.
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