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Botany and Conservation Science

Invasive Exotic Species

Conservation Law - Reports and Analyses

Case Law - Summaries of Recent Federal Endangered Species Act Case Law

Key Issues

• Transplantation as mitigation: Statement by California Native Plant Society & Botanical Society of America.  

• Fire and Rare Plants: Forest Service Briefing Paper (pdf, June, 2003) 

• California Native Plant Society letter on forest and fire management 

Plant and Conservation Science Links

• All Species Project - Inventorying life on earth

• American Bryological and Lichenological Society

• American Society of Plant Taxonomists

• Audubon Society Bird Species Watchlist

• Audubon Society Important Bird Areas

• CalFlora: online occurrence database for native and exotic flora in California

• CalPhotos: photos of California flora

• Center for Plant Conservation: association of botanical gardens and arboreta of the United States

• Botanical Society of America

• Botanical Databases, including literature: New York Botanical Garden

• Ecological Society of America

• Flora of North America

• Harvard University Databases -- Gray Herbarium Index and Harvard Type Specimen Index

• Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plant Species of California: California Native Plant Society

• Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley

• Nature Conservancy

• NatureServe: information on imperiled species of the United States

• Oregon Flora Project

• Oregon State University Herbarium

• Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center

• Plant Conservation Alliance

• Smithsonian - Centres of Plant Diversity in the Americas

• Society for Conservation Biology

• Tree Ring Society

• World Conservation Union: imperiled species science and policy

Penstmon grahamii, UT
(c) Sue Martin

Pima Pineapple Cactus, AZ (c) Lorena and Dan Moore Pineapple Cactus, AZ (c) Lorena and Dan Moore

Conservation Law 

• Federal Endangered Species Act (pdf)

• Saving Biodiversity: A Status Report on State Laws, Polices and Programs: A survey of state endangered species laws by Defenders of Wildlife

• The Listing And Critical Habitat Designation Crisis Is A Funding Problem, Not A Prioritization Problem (pdf): Center for Biological Diversity report on funding priorities under the federal Endangered Species Act by Kieran Suckling

• Management of Rare Plants under State and Federal Endangered Species Law: a CNPS perspective. Article in Fremontia July-October, 2002.

Endangered Species Act Case Law

Digests of Recent Federal Endangered Species Act Cases

• Listing

• Critical Habitat

• Two new cases that help protect habitat under the ESA:

  • August 2004 Critical Habitat case law for Desert Tortoise

  • August 2004 Critical Habitat case law for Northern Spotted Owl

*For more information on these cases go to The Center for Biological Diversity

• Section 7 (Federal Agency Consultation Regarding Species Jeopardy and Adverse Modification of Critical Habitat)

• Section 10 (Habitat Conservation Planning)

• Section 4 (d) (Special Take Rules)

• Other (Preemption, FOIA, Ripeness and Mootness)

 

 

 

 

Cutleaf Beardtongue, GA

(c) Hugh and Carol Nourse