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Scope of Work: Advisory Boards Keystone Dialogues Joint Fact Finding Leadership Summit Published Works/Staff Keystone Reports |
For more information, please contact Doug Thompson, Director, Environmental Practice at 508-468-5621. To order reports, please contact 970-513-5835. The Keystone Center Reports Findings of Endangered Species Act Dialogue, February 22, 2006 The Keystone ESA Working Group on Habitat agrees that the present regulatory approach to habitat protection could be improved to better address the biological needs of species, increase transactional efficiency, and reduce the concerns of regulated parties. Although the group is not able to offer a single, comprehensive consensus based approach or construct, significant headway was made in clarifying some of the central issues and considerations regarding the habitat listed species need to recover. Further, the group concurs on a number of ways to strengthen recovery planning and on programs and procedures that can provide additional landowner incentives that, if instituted, promise to redound to the benefit of listed species. Much of the group’s work was dedicated to exploring a potential new approach to habitat protection that would move away from the current critical habitat framework and build on three interdependent components:
Although the group did not reach consensus on a full and comprehensive construct, it generally agreed that, if such a construct could be developed, it would likely need to include the following elements: new provisions for integrating habitat protection and conservation into the ESA to replace the current critical habitat framework, a greater focus on the function, content, scope, and mechanics of recovery plans, clarification of the §7 standard, more effective incentives for non-federal parties, and new sources of funding for better coordinated and more workable ESA provisions pertaining to habitat.
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